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| The Nightwatchman – The Fabled City Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I believe that the opening is definitely a reference to outsourcing. The next verse I believe has something to do with racism and immigration as many people don't understand that immigrants are not useless. Why would he use the javier? there are plenty of other names that he could have used in place of it. But Javier makes sense because its a spanish name, and the typical spanish stereotype is that they are maids and cleaning services. It can also be a statement on how people want to close immigration and have racist thoughts because they feel that immigrants are only good for their stereotypes and can not advance in society. However Javier is willing to do what it takes to work and make his money, perhaps he has a family. The next verse I feel is about how the wall street criminals crashed the economy and she may have been one of them and she lost everything and she is ashamed of all the crimes she committed as a worker on wall street. The final verse is about how mainstream Americans (the 99 swallows) will follow the top 1% (the one swallow that flew) no matter what they do because they lead the economy. As for the chorus I believe the fabled city refers to New York and how great of city it is and how great the people are and how Wall Street (the iron fence) brings it down, although in addition it can be believed that the fabled city is a better america and corporate america and our government bring it down. |
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| The Nightwatchman – The Road I Must Travel Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I feel that the song is spoken from the point of view of a veteran who was formerly content with his rights and freedom in the united states. But now he is on his search for a better freedom. He feels that he can not see the "end of the road for freedom". I believe at one point he contacts his state senator and gives them his grievances. The next part describes him essentially killing his senator and his representatives. I have no clue as to whether or not he means this as the man described actually killed them and is living as a fugitive or if the man described told the secretary his grievances and she got nervous that someone had caught on to their "scheme". If it is the latter of the two he then gives an analogy about how our freedoms are limited and the man does this to multiple representatives and the analogy is that he is basically considered a fugitive in society because his ideas contradict the mainstream thoughts. At which point his freedom of speech is infringed upon that he feels he is being persecuted for his beliefs. This does not phase the man as he will do whatever it takes to preserve his rights. The final lines mean that he has traveled this road to freedom for so long that the sun has set on his freedoms and he either no longer cares or knows how far he has gone on his quest for freedom. This song is simply amazing. Full of intelligence and the music itself is very pleasing. Good job Tom and keep doing this kind of work. |
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