| Iq – Harvest of Souls Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's a recap of the last six years from the perspective of a personification of America. An anthromorphic America, as it were. The "walk on water" stanzas refers to a period in the past where the west looked on America as a great protector who could do no wrong - the period of the Cold War. "The sky lights up over America" part of the song is the events of 9/11, "disconnected in Heaven sent" is, from the voice of the personification of America, the deaths of the people in the tower. "We'll shoot you where you stand" refers to the War on Terror that followed. The next verses ("all you sell is your soul") refer to the eager signing up to the armed forces that occured after 9/11 and of course the wars itself. This is followed by the realisation of America's people that this war ("harvest of souls") is purposeless and the desertion of America by her allies as America's plans got more harebrained and unrelated to 9/11 (2001-2003 Britain was full of Americophiles. 2003 onwards, complete 180 degrees because of Iraq). "A series of shocks" can refer to the countries in the coalition pulling out one by one or to the terrorist attacks in Spain and the UK. The "real fine line" reflects the high-visibility of America's actions and the increasing difficulty in justifying the war. The "age of permanent doubt" is America being torn between fear of terrorism and distrust of its own government, throwing all things into doubt. The next stanza is the transition between the actual war in Iraq and the disasterous occupation - this is followed by the stanza with "last time round" in it, which could be either referring to the first Gulf War or Vietnam, depending on quite how critical you want the song to be. The rest is just basically saying "America's gone in for the oil and the money, it's going insane and this has all happened before." |
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| Cardiacs – Dirty Boy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about a boy and his relation to his penis. And wanking. And auto-fellatio. Not really that much to say here! |
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