| Arcade Fire – Ocean of Noise Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Could it be a Juda's inner speech about betraying Jesus? It occured to me yesterday, and since then I have a much more deep feeling about this song, but maybe I'm mistaken. Some verses make sense for me on this subject. |
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| Radiohead – There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I totally agree with you. It pretty matches with all these stuff about Irak war. The title seems to me like if the agents were telling Bush they don't find the massive destruction weapons and Bush is like pointing different places at random 'There, there! look there'. Just an excuse to go into war. The siren has two meanings for me. On the first verse it refers to a continuous alarm state he wants to mantain in the country, in order to perpetuate in his legislature, like that thing explained in Moore's Farenheit 9/11. He wants american population to believe they're always in danger so they need him. But this alarm turns into that mythological figure in the next verse, because one of this alarms he is creating is finally going to take him to disaster, will turn into a real siren (shipwreck). Why so green and so lonely? is like a question Bush makes himself about Irak. The green is the rich of the country (fuel), but still it is a deserted place, and so it's wasted. He wants to take to that promised land (sent by God) and prosper. The band has been asked about this references (not specifically about this song, but about the album), and they admit them but they say they like to think about the lyrics in a more general than allegorical level. |
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