| Gogol Bordello – Supertheory of Supereverything Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is against all forms of ideology, which specifically includes religion but also politics. He is saying that there is something wrong with breaking up the world into rigid categories that separate people, as ideologies tend to do. Here we have a celebration of everything that defies or resists categorization. The line, "party, party, party, party, party, party, now afterparty!" is mocking the idea that political parties represent anything meaningful or close to the truth. As in the beginning-- First time I had read the Bible It had stroke me as unwitty I think it may started rumor That the Lord ain't got no humor To him, religion is humorless, narrow, and like the blind followers of the party line, leads to a "Nazi uniformity" that is actually dangerous and potentially harmful. Do you have sex maniacs Or schizophreniacs Or the astrophysicists in your family? Was your grandma anti anti? Was my grandpa bounty bounty? They ask in embassy! This is the type of ludicrous questioning he or perhaps his ancestors may have been subjected to back in Russia, but also it could apply to the suspicion and coldness an immigrant feels directed towards him in a new country. The song mentions an embassy, but it could be anywhere. String theory is "super" because in his mind, it's anti-ideology: unpredictable, free, spontaneous, rule-bending, and revolutionary. Some people want to live inside an ideology, so he imagines living inside string theory ("Put me inside SSC..."), where all the exclusions and controls of daily life can disappear. But I think we can all relate to this desire for a split-free existence, where the part is not separate from the whole, and where the rules work differently or not as we assumed. |
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| Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think of Amélie from the film for some reason. | |
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