| The Temper Trap – Rabbit Hole Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| The Temper Trap – Rabbit Hole Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song is about raising awareness about oppression within society. The singer is expressing his unpopular view about how unfair and unjust the world is, but his class conciousness is a threat to those above him and therefore his words are surpressed and, consequently, 'falling on deaf ears' (Nobody is hearing him). The lines 'Come to get you if you make another sound, Make you an example since you’re crawling home', express, in the perspective of those in power, how they fight those who challenge their authority in order to protect their position in society. In my opinion, 'To the rabbit hole' symbolises a world masked by a fog of confusion by the capitalist classes. The only place we can retreat to in the end is to the world in which we are made to think we are treated fairl because we have no choice..yet. After the main drop in the song (following the second 'To the rabbit hole')the song twists back into a retaliation. The lyrics 'You think we're gonna run, if you think we're gonna run you're wrong' express his anger perfectly against those who have unfair power in the world. Repetition of the word 'flame' and 'feeding the flame' suggest that those above us are fighting the inevitable, and that one day, people will experience class consciousness and overthrow what power the oppressors in the world have. The lyrics from the song 'London's Burning' support this theme, with the lyric 'heavy is the hand pressing down again' (the hand being those who maintain power unjustly). These lyrics tie closely with the views of Karl Marx in my opinion, with the view that the perfect society should be classless. |
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