| Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resource Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Obviously a song dealing with the enduring conflict of man's herbivore v. carnivore instincts. It seems that Longstreth sees humans as overall good ("Everyone looks alive and waiting") but when it comes down to fill their stomachs they glutton over meat, not greens. The "Cannibal resource" of a man is not the fact that he/she dines on the flesh of another human, but that the animals we choose to slaughter and process are also, according to Longstreth, man-like. "Can it ask a question? / Can it sing a a melody? / Can it be interpreted? / Or is it more than what the eye can see? / Maybe not." This is the pure example of Longstreth's view of humanity: we are merely aloof, are just "terrified witnesses" to our own demise. The "arbitrary line" is just the line of thought between PETA and KFC. | |
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