| Seal – Future Love Paradise Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I realize I am way late on posting this, but here are my 2 cents: The song is obviously about racism. Who were the first riders that we might associate with racsim? Soon after the Civil War there were hooded riders that would come out of the night and burn the houses of the recently freed slaves as well as lynch any that they deemed a threat to their way of life - we all know them as the KKK. I feel that the symbology of the riders in this song is derived from the original Klan midnight rides and is used as imagery to represent all racsim and discrimination. In the 60's it was a common Klan claim that the black population was inferior because of the rampant rate of heroine addiction in many of the ghettos. It was an excuse the racists used as a justification for their atrocious behavious. Many of the points in this song can be viewed as turning the tables on racism: another example - if you ask a racist why he hates blacks, or Jews, or Asians, the politically correct answer you might hear is that they don't hate them - they just "love the white race. What is wrong with that?" So in light of this interpretation - "The riders will not stop us, cause the only love they'll find is paradise" can be expanded to clearly mean - The racists will not stop us because the only love there truly is, is the love of an equal and free world. Or I might be completely wrong. |
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