| Placebo – Slave To The Wage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about being a slave to money, as the name implies. It speaks in the first paragraph about how you could just run away from it all. Your boredom, whoring of the system, and in doing so throw away all your worries or cares. We worry everyday about our money, it's always on our minds. I think he's saying that if we stopped worrying or stopped caring about it we'd have better lives. The chorus talks how we're all just rats in the race to die. You could say retirement I guess, but after retirement that's all you have left... death. I think he means to signify that you get one shot at life, and to spend it worrying bout money all the time is sad. I think the section about Maggie's Farm could in someway refer to either the Queen of England directly or the figurehead of the Queen of England. Placebo is a European band, so I could see them saying something about the UK. I think by farm it's referring to the job market. By saying her arms are broken I believe this may be to signify how she is sitting at the top of the hierarchical ladder and it's almost impossible for her to wave her worries or cares goodbye(broken arms). That's my take. |
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