| The Offspring – Pay The Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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See, I think that this song is supposed to represent resentment against any kind of drudgery from a higher power or authority, any kind of hampering, restriction, restraint. It's individual to the listener, it speaks to whatever it is you're most angry with, or take the most issue with. Personally, I always found myself thinking about religion with this song. While lines like "The Man is making little bets, playing with our lives" could apply as much to the banking system as to Abrahamic religion, "All that I believe now/Anything is possible/A simple explanation/For the evil in this world/And in our souls" is to me more about the cop-out of attributing the world's evil to a single, easily explainable, easily SHUNNABLE source, instead of acknowledging our own duality. |
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| Frank Zappa – Call Any Vegetable Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| OR MAYBE HE JUST WANTED TO MAKE A SONG ABOUT VEGETABLES. | |
| Frank Zappa – Magdalena Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Do you really think Zappa saw it that way? I think it's handled with a lot of humour. In Brown Shoes Don't Make It, the incestuous tones are in there both for comedy and to show that being in a position of moral authority doesn't make you immune to corrupt or unacceptable thoughts. Plus, for the record, "paedophilia" refers to an attraction to children. An attraction to adolescents is called "ephebophilia" - and given that the song makes reference to her as a "teenage daughter" and talks about her breasts a lot, I'm pretty sure she's the latter. |
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