| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – We No Who U R Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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At the end of the video, which right now is just a camera slowly scrolling down the lyrics to the song (although in the video a huge chunk of the chorus that probably explains what actually happened has been redacted and isn't sung), at the end of the song there are two additional lines that are redacted out, but faintly enough that you can still see the letterforms through the black bar: "And we want you to burn" "And we want you to burn" I read an early review of this, I think on NME, that thought this song might be about a mob with pitchforks (the trees hands, I guess?). I don't know if I buy that, but I think there's some kind of mob mentality to this song. Maybe it's just the choir singing. It seems like there's a hunt going on. For the little bird? If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to. So they burn down the forest. And the ending, the creepy "We know who you are, we know where you live, we know there's no need to forgive" makes me think Nick is making a statement about the modern world. We have left ourselves nowhere to hide. Everyone knows where we live. Everyone knows who everyone is now. And no one in power is ever going to apologize for that. If that knowledge is abused, well, oops, bud don't worry. There's no need for the powerful to feel bad about it. They'll never get it wrong. Again. And if I think there's a connection to the modern world, and because this is Nick Cave, I wonder if we look at the modern social-media connected world, if this is somehow a song about Twitter? "The little bird." Because Nick Cave is odd like that. Maybe I'm reaching by this point... |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Easy Money Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Not to discount what anyone else has suggested (indeed, I think the genius of Nick Cave is that he pulls together his album themes and literary sources and personal inspirations together into something that is never divorced from any one source too deeply), but I'd bet that this song is a long piece of self-directed sarcasm. A criticism of himself inspired by taking the "Easy Money" by being part of the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Wonderful song, though. My 2nd favorite of the whole double album. |
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