| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A few things that are a bit off the mark there, firstly the majority of volunteers from wales were not part of the 'intellectual elite' or 'left leaning students'. They tended to be from strong working class unions, often miners. the line "if I can shoot rabbits I can shoot facists" was origionally from the book Miners Against Fascism. The facists did not have more local support than the republican/communist/anarchist side, most of franco's troops were nonlocal mercinarys brought in from outside spain and when the facist troops launched their coup it wasnt an organised army that stopped them in their tracks it was ordinary people rising up across spain. Whilst some people who went to spain thought of themselves as communist, many were socialist, socialdemocratic, anarchist, or just commited to anti-facism and pro working class struggle. The majority of the spainish replublican side at the start of the war were not communists. It was only later that the communists took power over the reblican side (nearly leading to all out streetwarfare between the stalinists and the trotskyist/anarchists in 'La Ramblas' -which has a lot to do with the meaning of that line imo). The reason for there power was due to the fact that whilst hitler and Mussolini aided the facists, the democratic powers in europe refused to aid the rebllicans leaving russia as their only real source of weapons and munitions. It's fair to say that the revolution in spain was defeated twice, firstly by the stalinist communists and then after by franco's facists. |
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| Bad Religion – Tested Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I heard this song after picking up a copy of the album "Tested". I agree with beyond_opinion's uh opinion. that as well as a more general opinion on life it could be about an interpretation of many faiths (primarily Christianity). I.e. that your life is a 'test' to see if you are worthy of entrance into the afterlife ('a place free of trouble and care') which ends upon death ('your dark eternal sleep'). The songs speaks of the confusion amongst people trying to live to these ideals and ' navigating a tangled web of logic and passion', those who use ('bend') the ideals for their own needs, and the own opinion that there are no absolutes however 'straight and narrow' your path is. |
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