| The Clash – Koka Kola Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In general I agree with the other posters; the song has a few different subtexts all woven together with cocaine being the common theme: - modern multinationals pushing products on consumers through advertising and hooking us like they're selling drugs - the execs of these companies, the wall street yuppies, the world leaders, all actually being ON cocaine, feeding their own habit by fleecing everyone else - the brilliant reference to Coca-Cola's history of actually using cocaine to hook customers to tie it all together. The last line of the chorus ("freeze, man, freeze") and the last verse about the snub-nose .44 don't seem to fit at first, but they do make sense. The way I see it, he's saying you're getting robbed by coke-heads either way, whether one is coming through your door with a pistol, or you're paying for some product because advertising told you to. Every commercial you see is telling you to freeze and give up your money. |
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