| Ace of Base – Perfect World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Through all the horrors that history tells us are the human experience, spending one's time with a lover and your children is to enjoy the "perfect world". | |
| Ace of Base – Happy Nation Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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According to Wikipedia, Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg of Ace of Base deeply regrets his earlier affiliation with a Swedish nationalist political party and a white power band. He said of that time, "I really regret what I done. I closed that book. I don't want to even talk about it, that time does not exist in me any more. I closed it and I threw the book away." In the music video, symbols of Christ, Buddha, the peace symbol, and the Yin/Yang symbol predominate as symbols of what good things should be pursued. A picture of a nuclear explosion accompanies the song's first statement of "Tell them we've gone too far." There are a few symbols that might be ignorantly assumed to be Satanist, but a more knowledgeable person would recognize them as Buddhist religious symbols. Only by assuming that everything other than Christianity is devilish can you construe these things as Satanist or devil-worshiping. The lyric "no man's fit to rule the world alone" rejects of the idea of a born leader (such as "The Furor"). The lyrics "dream of (the) perfect man / a situation leading to sweet salvation" reference the Christian concept of a heavenly afterlife and the Buddhist concept of enlightenment; thus, they are advocacy for a self-improving effort towards perfection, not some racist concept of perfection-by-birthright. I interpret this song to be Ulf's rejection of national socialist views of what makes a "Happy Nation" in favor of traditional, moral, and peaceful terms. |
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