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feels like they have been pissed around by people so they decided to cut them off and go their own way.

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This seems like an homage to Alan Parsons Project, circa I ROBOT. If so, they nail the atmosphere.

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Probably their most obvious swipe at the business. Well done, but overshadowed by a wealth of stronger material on what is, IMO, their best effort.

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Listen to Side One of SCOUNDREL DAYS, plus "The Soft Rains of April". To me, these always sounded like a connected suite of songs from the same narrator. Which is why the album is by turns brilliant and frustrating. Tracks 6-9 are fine, but there was SOMETHING ELSE going on that we only get pieces of.

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A haunting, brilliant song. Even though lyrically opaque, the sense of menace slices through the heart from the opening synth line. Morten's vocal soars in the first chorus like the flight of an angel, which slams to earth with his delivery of "For want of an option..."

SCOUNDREL DAYS, as an album, always felt to me like half of a concept album with some more fan friendly fare tacked onto side two. Tracks 1-5, 10 seem to have a through line, with a narrator who has been driven by some sort of anguish or mental illness to...

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how I see it is that the protagonist wants to escape reality (and the world in general) and create their own world inside of their mind or in sleep

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Mind

Fantastic song, of course. But just to brag about how modern I was, I must point out that I, directly when the song was released, used to switch the genders of the song just to give it an interesting edge when I sang it (alone, at home, with my guitar). Later, I've heard a few female singers do the same ("He's a good boy..." etc). My only minor critique of the song might, namely, be that I feel the bad-boy/good-girl setting might feel a tad traditional, and I think it spices it up to simply reverse the roles. (I'm a long-time,...

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You are truly in hell when you think you are the most high. You have a creator, you are flawed, and when you believe in yourself to save you, you are toast. The Jinn Men Smash the Ark is saying that evil is trying to divide you from God, mystic men is another way of describing them.

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Belief

Mr. Armstrong presents the dilemma of an (unnamed) person who doesn't want to be an American idiot. It's a good news/bad news type of problem. On the one hand, you can't cure stupid. On the other, plenty of other countries are easy to get citizenship to.

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Stupidity

I agree with many of the other posters that the nautical disaster is a metaphor for a breakup, but I'll focus on part of the lyrics that I haven't seen anyone else comment on yet - the part about the lifeboat being designed for 10 and 10 only - and anything that systematic will get you hated (when at least 500 more were thrashing about). In the dating world, there are 100's of suitors for your love, but the reality is only one can have it at a time - which means everyone else will be left behind in...

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Sadness
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Breakup
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Memory
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