| Beck – Hell Yes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The great thing about Beck is you can totally interpret it however you want it. The confusing thing about this is, well, we all varied opinions about this. Personally, this song makes me think of the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars. (This is a personally opinion, keep in mind.) For example, the whole first stanza has these frequent references to bombing and the like, e.g.: z'Fake prizes rising out of the bomb holes." I think of the shock-n-awe campaign at the beginning of the Iraq conflict, where we were all like, "FUCK YEAH, MURICA!" and bombing the shit out of Baghdad. It was supposed to get us a prize (YAY we beat Saddam) but as the occupation rolls on, "IT'S A TRAP." And to expand on that: "Bank notes burn like smoking equipment Looking for shelter, readjust your position." Towards the beginning of the war, there were more than a few cases of fighter jets/artillery landing strikes uncomfortably close to troops at the very tippy-top of the front lines. So...to me, the "looking for shelter, readjust your position" (and the whole: "Duck don't look now, company missiles" makes me think of the near friendly-fire by artillery and air forces. Like, "oh shit, dude, you're basically shooting US." Beck also makes references towards "limited attention spans" and "perfunctory idols rewriting their bibles with magic markers running out of ink." I tend to think that this could reference the fact that after two years of war, the American public kinda got bored and got interested in something else shiny and explosive. Since we weren't feeling the impact of the war first hand (rations, draft, etc), we grew bored of the conflict and got busy bitching about something else. As to the Bibles w/ magic markers (which is awesome, one): as the war in Iraq progressed, people were like, "Why the fuck are we HERE?" to which war hawks had to quickly revamp their "PURPOSES IN IRAQ" strategy and find a reason that would stick with a disatisfied public and confused troop presence on the ground. But as the war dragged on, the magic markers rewriting excuses and bullshit logic were getting fainter and fainter - they were running out. Anyway: goddamn, I love this song. This was my interpretation of it. I'd love to hear other opinions. |
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| UNKLE – Follow Me Down Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Despite the fact this song is hypnotic as all out, and therein it's hard to actually FOCUS on what the meaning might be... I still tend to think of this as being a relationship coming to an end. Whomever the woman is singing about is begging the woman to tell him what happens next, where they go from here, what they can do together to fix this (etc, etc). Ultimately, the woman has no answers. She doesn't have any idea what's going to happen, where they go from here. "See, I can't believe in myself. How can I prove it to you?" And when she hits the reality that he's not going to just let this go, she finally relents. Fine. "Follow me down." Trust me. She knows that the end is there. That neither of them can escape it. But she knows no other way to deter the man from this then to just walk him through. "Follow Me Down" is probably also a commentary on the difficulty of breaking up from a serious relationship. In breakups we fear being alone, and in this fear (usually if we're the breakee, not the break-uper) we cling to the relationship with everything we have, terrified of being abandoned. "Everywhere we look we see ourselves:" every where there's a miserable single person, or a happy couple. And that can either be a nightmare or a happy dream. |
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