Communist Daughter

It is correct to analyze created works by what they are seen to do rather than according to an artist claims to intend.

The artist in this lyric befuddles listeners - hides intentions behind surreal phrases. At the outset the artist attempts to shock an idealized mainstream by identifying with an idealized foe of the current mainstream.

Reference to semen is another crude effort to shock readers who fail to join the artists hastily constructed proletariat - at once violating sensibilities of privacy with a notion that the writer knows better what is suited for public discourse, imposing the seed of his desire upon any who here, and implying esoteric knowledge - albeit void of any discernible meaning other than that of crude graffiti that creates group identity among vandals who spray walls with obscure messages.

We know the artist is not naive to political ideologies because he performs in politicized venues. In the most general sense, the artist claims a right to define communism as he sees it, then uses it as a garment to dress a person's best hopes for the future - as represented by the concept "daughter." This idealized daughter seeks to satisfy herself, but uses the fist - an allusion to force and violence -- that proves to her she still exists.

It is easy to get the sense that the song is about rape. The male artist constructs an idealized female to which he can do as he pleases - dress her in the communist attire that satisfies his sense of rebellion, ejaculate publicly on her fictional mountains, and act as a puppeteer who causes her to masturbate for his gratification.

In the final analysis, the song speaks to the reasons young people identify with some political ideals - not because the ideal makes sense to them, but because they feel empowered by embracing an ideal "better than yours" then enjoying the support of a peer mob to impose their ideals on what they see as an oppressive society. It is a society in which they failed to find the rewards and prestige they sought, so they set out in search of wealth, prestige and exclusive status in their own self-styled proletariat.