| Angelspit – Get Even Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Duplicity isn’t new" I think this is the key line. Notice the blatant reference to Christianity "Turn your fucking cheek" Generally this is supposed to suggest humility, forgiveness, perhaps supplication. This act of humility, it might be hoped, serves to show your enemy the error in his ways. Let God 'whisper in his ear' in a sense. But it also suggests that certain things must be 'left to God.' In this second vein one can see it as turning away from a situation that is slapping your proverbial face. Like when the TV is showing starving children in Africa or enslaved workers in China which might make us think twice about buying that diamond or ipod. "With these milky lips We’re kissing violence On these loving tongues we burn up kings" In our quest to satisfy the flesh--ironically considered secondary to the spirit in (much) modern Christian theology btw--we facilitate the violence that the satisfaction perpetrates. (I'll speak for America because that's what I know about the most. Though I'm sure Australia has its parallels.) Columbia and Mexican gangs murder each other and any inconvenient civilians for the privilege of supplying us with our drugs. Communist fascists enslave their people pushing them to suicide to supply us with our ipods, ipads, and ifucks. This isn't Illuminati, this is all below the surface. Perfectly. Normal. Human. Nature. "Turn your fucking cheek I’m gunna drive the knife through Your stench of deceit Before you get a chance to" Notice the interrupt at the end? That's us. We've stopped listening. They aren't talking to some anonymous 'Other'--not some "Them" over there but US right here. We deceive ourselves with religion, our 'opiates' and yes, music. There is a frustration here, I think, because music is their (AS's) medium. They want to shout out the truth, drive a knife through this cloud of deceit but there is perhaps also a fear that they are contributing to it. (Aside: I saw an interview with these guys on Youtube and the interview compared them to Lords of Acid (with songs like, 'Let me see your pussay'--which is fun for an escape but that's about it) and I got the sense that they were offended. I'm sure they aren't looking to shit where they eat but a lot of their songs are about the 'fad' direction goth/punk is heading. Back in the day punk was rebellious, yes, but it was also political, critical and uncompromising. There is a sense that that has been lost when people care about--for example--whether DestroyX is getting a little 'chubby'. I even saw a poster on youtube moan, 'I miss her!' in reference to her weight as if she'd gone somewhere. She wasn't this intelligent, amazing, powerhouse. She's just a collection of body parts subject to 'innocent' comments about her weight) Time for bed. Maybe I'll finish this. Probably not |
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| Marilyn Manson – Posthuman Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Notice the reference to 'dead stars' and Kennedy? God as a statistic? Celebrities are going to die. Some of those deaths will seem particularly tragic (I believe MM also often refers to John Lennon and it is noteworthy that MDC killed him for a piece of that divinity but I'm getting ahead of myself) An unforeseen, tragic, bullet or drug riddled celebrity is a boon to our vampiric society. On the one hand it confirms out puritanical programming. "See!" We can say to ourselves, "this is what you get if you reach beyond yer station! (think of your self, whatever)" But that is only the first, superficial layer. This is the path to immortality itself. This is the other (post-human) side. The Christ figure sanctified suffering and tragic end as an end in itself. His death was pointless but those who believed he was the Messiah had to struggle with the dissonance created by the fact that he didn't conquer some terrible enemy--like, say, the Romans--and left them in the hands of said enemy. So, they invented a bigger enemy for him to conquer: death itself. (It is useful to also note that there was every expectation that the world would end soon. Festinger--founder of cognitive dissonance theory--found evidence that failed prophesy can impel even cloistered fanatics to increase proselytizing efforts if they've made a sufficient commitment. And what bigger commitment than death and slavery to the biggest bullies in town?) The bigger the tragedy, the 'better'. The human form is shed and they live in our memories as something more than mere human embedded in a bygone era where everything was just a little bit better because they were in it. They become untouchable, divine. They show us that we can be divine too. All we need do is sacrifice our humanity---sacrifice everything we have and maybe we too can be immortal. |
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| Marilyn Manson – We're From America Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| A Perfect Circle – The Package Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The addict is the package. Just a shell, a smile, a nod. Not just to 'score' but everywhere. It's all peripheral. It's also an obsession with appearance and fleeting sensual gratification, gluttony, waste. There is no substance, just pretty wrapping. Everything is devalued, a commodity to be consumed and discarded; even priceless gifts are torn open, greedily consumed or hoarded and quickly forgotten as we look for the next distraction. There is also the sense of a lost self- of not being present except in that one moment. A 'being' that surfaces only at the beck and call of sweet death. What's left is just the monster: insatiable, destructive and unsustainable. What do you do with a monster? You appease that Old One for as long as you can even as it drains your sanity or squashes you like a bug on a whim. In myth some heroes manage to lock it away for a while...But it's always gnashing, tearing at its chains waiting for Armageddon or Ragnarok. | |
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