| Dropkick Murphys – Sunshine Highway Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The posted lyrics aren't exactly right. It's not "Tango and Gin", it's "Tanqueray Gin" Tanqueray is a brand of British gin. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Ashes in the Fall Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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***I believe this song is about genocide, with specific references to the Holocaust.*** "A mass of hands press on the market window Ghosts of progress Dressed in slow death Feeding on hunger And glaring through the promise Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle" ***Before the Jews were sent to the concentration camps, they were kept from keeping high paying jobs and forced to live in ghettos with poor living conditions*** "A mass of nameless at the oasis That hides the graves beneath the masters hill Buried for drinking The rivers water While shackled to the line At the empty well" ***Now they are at the forced labor camps and concentration camps. They were often forced to dig graves for their fellow jews that were killed. Germans like Amon Goeth were sadistic and would often shoot the Jews as he overlooked them from the balcony of his villa (beneath the masters hills) "This is the new sound Just like the old sound Just like the noose wound Over the new ground" ***This has happened before, and will happen again. Despite the call to never repeat our mistakes, it happens anyway. This could also be a referenced to the Rwandan genocide in '94 since the album was released in '99, the lyrics were written near the time.*** ***Listen to the fascist sing Take hope here War is elsewhere You were chosen This is god's land Soon well be free Of blot and mixture Seeds planted by our Forefathers hand*** Read this as if it was Hitler giving a speech. Hitler was an amazing speaker and could convince people to do horrible things simply by the way he presented it. He would blame the Jews for Germany's problems after WWI and wished to create a perfect race by cleansing their society of any who were inferior (blot and mixture)*** "A mass of promises Begin to rupture Like the pockets Of the new world kings Like swollen stomachs In Appalachia Like the priests that fuck you As they whisper holy things A mass of tears have transformed to stones now Sharpened on suffering Woven into slings Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress Taking today what tomorrow never brings" ***Not sure on the meaning of this passage*** "This is the new sound Just like the old sound Just like the noose wound Over new ground" "Aint it funny how the factorys doors close Round the time that the school doors close Round the time that the doors of the jail cells Open up to greet you like the reaper Aint it funny how the factorys doors close Round the time that the school doors close Round the time that a hundred thousand jail cells Open up to greet you like the reaper" ***As said before, the Jews were forced to close their businesses, and the children would not go to school. The German's did not want to keep paying the costs to hold prisoners, so they would open the jails and let out all the criminals.*** "This is the new sound Just like the old sound Just like the noose wound Over the new ground" "Like ashes in the fall" ***People would walk in the street and think it was snowing in the fall. When they looked closer, they found it wasn't snow but ash, ash from the corpses as they burned and the smoke left the smokestacks.*** |
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