| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Formicary Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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dan rathbun is pretty clear in the liner notes that this is a political song, but he seems to be more put off by the hyperpartisanship of politics than about any one particular politician. also i don't think anyone could honestly describe the oratorically challenged bush as being able to "move great masses with his mouth." barack obama, maybe? :D |
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| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Babydoctor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| pelton and crane ... wow. that's the most obscure reference i've ever heard in a song lyric. | |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Powerless Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song is the most explicit declaration of a theme SGM explores throughout its albums: powerlessness. mankind's utter powerlessness against many things: against its own urges and obsessions (Sleep Is Wrong, FC: The Freedom Club); against its own institutions (The Creature, Formicary); against its own physical frailty (Baby Doctor, The Cockroach); and against the very order of nature and time (The Donkey Headed Adversary, The Salt Crown). it's all kind of a downer -- but it's real, it's thought-provoking and it's delivered with a voice that's all SGM's own. and that's exactly what great art is meant to be and do, in my opinion. |
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| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Cockroach Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| an ironic ditty from the perspective of someone who is blinded by humanity's false sense of evolutionary superiority. gotta love it. | |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – FC: The Freedom Club Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i always thought the lyrics after "the hermit of the woods is gone" was "the shack taken down" -- a reference to how kaczynski's cabin was loaded onto a flatbed truck and towed away in preparation for a trial. | |
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