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| Iron Maiden – The Trooper Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Just so you know, horses were used extensively in WWI, both as mounts for cavalry and logistics (pulling artillery, carrying supplies, etc.).
You are right this is not about either WW though, the obvious clue being the reference to muskets.
I'm pretty sure the song is about either the Napoleonic Wars or the Crimean War. |
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| System of a Down – Dreaming Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Also, I never took the opening line to be a reference to the Wall of China specifically, but the rest of your explanation ties into my interpretation perfectly. I've always felt this line, when looked at with the rest of the lyrics as a whole, is more a reference to how private interests wage war for their own benefit at the expense of everyone else, and how this is painfully apparent to anyone who pays even the slightest bit of attention to what is going on.
Thus, "we will take the body parts" (private power will send people off to die/will kill for their own benefit) "and put them on the wall" (and will do so with their motives openly displayed/will take little if any effort to hide the ttrue reasons for doing so, and people will just go along with it anyway). |
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| System of a Down – Dreaming Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Spot on, for the most part. I think you have misunderstood the following line, however.
"For treated indigenously, digenously
Human right is private blue chip, pry"
A "blue chip" is a term used to refer to a stock in a company that consistently yields a profit. I think these lines are basically pointing out how basic human rights are trampled upon, stripped away or simply ignored in the pursuit of greater profits. I think it clearly relates to the rest of the song as you have explained it.
Otherwise you've interpreted this song exactly the same way I do. This song speaks to me like few others do, and is one of the only songs I've ever heard that no matter how many times I hear it still evokes an emotional response from me. |
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| Bad Religion – Generator Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Brett's religious background is in Judaism. The line "the blood on my door" is definately a reference to the twelfth plague in the book of exodus from the old testament (Jewish) part of the bible. |
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| Bad Religion – God Song Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Agreed. Some of their best lyrics.
Also, the line is "religion is synthetic frippery". "Flippery" is not a word. |
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| Bad Religion – Do What You Want Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Considering the general point of Br's music is to encourage people tho think, I believe the use "big words" in so many of their lyrics in order to force the listener to actually think about what is being said.
From a purely practical perspective, "big words" exist because for the purposes of communication: it's simply easier to use one word than to use said word's definition. would you really prefer the line to be "Sitting around and doing nothing with your time will lead to you not caring about anything"? Or how about "A member of the great ape family of organisms who has contempt for his own kind with nothing to"? i don't think that would flow with the rhythm of the song very well. |
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| Bad Religion – Flat Earth Society Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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If I'm not mistaken, Gurewitz comes from a Jewish background, not a Christian, and identifies himself as an agnostic or deist (but I'm not positive). |
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| Bad Religion – Fertile Crescent Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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floatingeye's interpretation is correct, for the most part. The Fertile Crescent is the name given to a part of the world containing modern day Iraq, and the song was written in '91-'92, so it is an obvious reference to the Gulf War.
However, like many BR songs, I think there is a larger meaning to it, as well. The Fertile Crescent was were the earliest known human civilizations (city-states) emerged. The emergence of civilization irrevocably changed human existence: before, humans lived in small tribal groups where people were relatively free to live their lives free of control or restrictions by others; civilization brought about divisions of labor, class systems, systems of social control, slavery, war, et cetera; thus the line "the cradle of humanity has led us all astray" (the cradle of humanity being another name for given to the fertile crescent region).
Also, I think they are pointing out that despite the thousands of years since the birth of civilization, little if any of it's negative aspects have changed ("the fertile crescent is haunting us today"). |
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| Bad Religion – Automatic Man Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I'd say the meaning of American Jesus, put simply, is the effect the mixture of Christian fundamentalism and nationalism has had on American politcal culture and the national ideaology. |
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| Bad Religion – Atomic Garden Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think it's less about nuclear war, but more about the large stockpile of nuclear weapons within the Soviet Union, and the potential for nuclear proliferation following the collapse of Soviet Communism (song was written in '91-'92, immediately following this event). |
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| Bad Religion – All There Is Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think it's fairly easy to tell whether Greg or Brett wrote the lyrics. Greg's tend to be more cerebral, Brett's more emotional/personal. Not an absolute, but a general trend. |
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| Bad Religion – All Fantastic Images Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's posted pretty much the same drivel on every BR song on this site. It's either a troll or an agenda driven religious person. Either way, it's not worthy of anyone's attention, and should be ignored. |
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| Bad Religion – Ad Hominem Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Well said. In perusing the comments on just a few of their songs, I'm a bit dismayed to see how many fans of BR don't seem to really get what the band is about. It seems many feel that every song is an attack on religion just because of the name of the band; in reality, even those BR songs that actually do criticize religion aren't so much critizing religion itself, so much as it's propensity for spawning dogmatic modes of thought. All ideologies can result in dogmamatic thinking, be they religious, political or even scientific, and thus why all are challenged in numerous BR songs. |
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