| Propagandhi – The Banger's Embrace Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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ha, the lyrics here are sorta like a manowar song. Lots of big epic metal hyperbole, but also self aware that its doing it, without a trace of shitty hipster irony. "20,000 leagues below, the place where all the best bands go" |
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| Propagandhi – Supporting Caste Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i feel like sometimes propagandhi writes their lyrics first, then fits them to songs. Anyway, the part after "you may as well dance"- that parts great. |
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| Propagandhi – Night Letters Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is the best song the not-john sampson guy ever wrote. I was just going to write that, but i think i just figured it out: its a guy who leaves his country to feed his family and send money home. He "goes running for his life" and never goes home again, traveling far away, dreaming of where he used to live "where it wasnt so fucking cold(united states), but on fire with war." So basically the guy is separated from his family, trying to help them, but things are getting worse over there, "with his loved ones taunted by murderers." In the end, he tells them they still will have to wait 3 more years before he can go back for them, which i guess is a long time when all these terrible things are happening. I think the guy might also be an illegal immigrant with "stones tossed over the fence" but i dont know if the war stuff makes sense then. Still, this is the same guy who wrote "fuck the border." |
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| Propagandhi – Potemkin City Limits Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is great. Pretty sure its about an animal escaping from a slaughterhouse, living in freedom for a few months in the city parklands before being eventually and inevitably caught. Francis sounds like a pig's name to me. Its funny because its really a heartbreaking song, about trying to escape from an terrible and ultimately inexorable fate, finding some fleeting happiness- "where for 5 months he ran free and replayed his only fond memory/ just a warm and distant dream of his mother's loving eyes upon him. Francis made it farther than she did" - before being caught just a quartermile away from getting out of the city. Its pretty tragic, but Its also about a pig. Or a cow, i guess. A few things: " There's a statue that the abattoir erected to remind us all of their contributions. To me it marks Potemkin City Limits, this Francis cast in bronze." An abattoir is a slaughterhouse, so that is another point for the pretty obvious francis as an animal thing. Potemkin villages, according to wikipedia: "Potemkin villages were purportedly fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. According to this story, Potemkin, who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress's eyes." Potemkin can then be used as an adjective for a fake or facade, something looking nice to conceal something bad, like with "potemkin forests" where a row of trees is put (or left, i guess) at the edge of a highway, to conceal the fact the forest has actually been decimated by clearcutting. I guess then, potemkin city limits, would be the edge of the facade, the point where you can start to tell that its not actually real. Maybe this is based on a true story? |
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