| David Bazan – Harmless Sparks Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me this song is critiquing patriarchy First he critiques the suppression of women's sexuality, as he says that men (priests in particular) are defining the women's body without any real knowledge about it (showing nuns what they had discerned about their bodies in the dark) while the priests are supposed to be pure beings who are able to define what's right and wrong for women, David Bazan points out that they are really having sex with little boys themselves, thus making priests not pure, and in fact hypocrites. Eve taking the apple is often thought of as being the justification for male supremacy and the patriarchal under christianity. Bazan is saying if men really questioned this justification of power over women because of eve taking the apple compared to all the other troubles that men have done, they would be forced to question their patriarchal birthright of ownership over their wives, children, wealth and power. This song is genius, simple but actually really complex |
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