| Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Slave Master Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Anybody else see the irony in him shouting out to Hieroglyphics, the language of a people who famously enslaved the Jews, in a song called "Slave Master"? | |
| Faith No More – Everything's Ruined Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I dunno about the Soviet Russia thing. My interpritation is this: A few people get together and start, for example, a band. They first start off, and everything's going good ("We were so happy"). In the beginning, it's small, just them, they work good together, and they do all the stuff they've gotta do to get the band going ("We were like ink and paper/Numbers on a calculator/Knew arithmetic so well/Working overtime Completed what was assigned/We had to multiply ourselves") Here's where I get a little torn on it. It could be about how the band takes off and gets huge, but it gets away from what they were originally wanting it to be. "People loved him so And helped him to grow Everyone knew the thing that was best Of course, he must invest A penny won't do" Everybody's telling the band what to do, like they know what's best for the band. "A Penny Won't Do" calls back to "A Shiny Copper Penny" like to mean that they're not a small-time band anymore, and they should start acting like a big band. At the end, despite making them famous and a ton of money, it's completely gotten away from what they wanted (ie: Counterfeit). And everything's ruined. OR: The band gets to be famous, but the front man is hogging the spot-light. The front-man (Who I'll call Chuck to save typing) and the band argue a lot, to the point where they part ways. "And he spent himself Would not listen to us But when he lost his appetite He lost his weight in friends" And then Chuck goes on to get some solo-fame, while the rest of the band fades into obscurity. In that sense, Chuck is the one who's counterfeit, and everything is ruined. |
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