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| Streetlight Manifesto – Down Down Down to Mephisto's Cafe Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Interesting about Catholics discouraging families from owning bibles all the way up the 50s eddo, didn't know that.
Anyway, I guess the consensus is that this song is like a less direct version of the BossTones' Holy Smoke (listen to it if you haven't, great song!) |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – The Receiving End of it All Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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That could be it as well. On here the quote ends with "It's not so bad" but when I'm listening to the song, I think of the quote ending at "Nobody helped us so we dreamt of better days", like the "he" was telling them about how he lost everything and nobody helped him. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Down Down Down to Mephisto's Cafe Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this song is mostly pointing out the pointlessness in asking existential questions, because it doesn't help us be better people and live better lives in the hear and now. I don't think it's totally anti-religious, just anti-zealots who crusade around pressing their beliefs on anyone else. Also, I don't think the man he meets is an atheist, because being an atheist would in fact be "choosing a side". Moreover, I think the man and what happens to him represents society's weird tendancy to kill off the people that try to help humanity (Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, etc.) just because their views are different from the norm at the time. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – The Receiving End of it All Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I agree with Magus that this song is generally about how things could always be worse. I.E. You could be in a failing relationship, but then there's someone else who who's worse off because he just got all his shit stolen (that motherfucker he took everything we have). And then you can't expect help from anyone, because everyone has their own problems that they think are the worst in the world. |
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