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| Tom Waits – Hoist That Rag Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is about nationalism, I think, and more precisely about the use of patriotism to excuse atrocities. Telling lines include the allusion "all is fair in love and war" and the other war imagery around the second and third verses. Most interesting, however, is the religious references, which seem to relate directly for leaders to refer to themselves as 'tools of God' -- "God used me as a hammer..." and even "the world is flat" seem to smakc of fundamentalist theocracy. |
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