| Nitzer Ebb – Warsaw Ghetto Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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The Warsaw Ghetto was the site of the largest single revolt by the Jewish resistance during World War II. Jewish residtance groups ŻOB and ŻZW had stockpiled weapons. They fought for survival knowing that the powers against them were overwhelming. The song is an indictment of those who failed to take action to prevent the genocide. You knew all along Prejudice the nation Your two faces turn Stop, stop the blood Stop, stop the bloodstain |
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| Cults – You Know What I Mean Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is a great example of how art can mean different things to different people, and they are never wrong. For me, listening to this album with the constant thought of the horrific manipulation and death that occurred at Jonestown, this song reminds me of Christine Miller. She stood alone and tried to argue for the survival of the people of Peoples Temple, and in particular the babies. It's an excruciatingly sad story. Eventually she was shouted down by the crowd, dismissed by the leader, and possibly even murdered by lethal injection. http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JonestownReport/Volume12/Lisagor.htm For the record, I am pretty sure that she says "I ain't afraid of the light" up until; 2:09 when she actually does say "I am afraid of the light". I could be hearing it wrong. I could be interpreting it wrong too. But that's what I get from it. |
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| Cults – Oh My God Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Although the songs on this album seem to have multiple layers of meaning, I think that this song delves into some of the feelings and patterns that make people more susceptible to brainwashing. The backdrop of Jonestown plays on many of these tracks, except with Abducted, maybe others, but it does particularly here, I think. I think that the entire album can be viewed somewhat as an exploration of those thoughts and feelings of people who are or are about to be involved in a mind-controlling cult like Peoples Temple: Boredom, searching for a new name, a new life, a new set of rules, etc., are all signals that the narrator is ripe for the picking. The most wonderful artistic stroke of this album is how they layer themes like cultish manipulation and abduction right over top of good old fashioned love! Like that the narrator in the song Abducted loves so hard it's as if he/she has been abducted. Or songs like this one, or You Know What I Mean, a song I can't help but imagine Christine Miller singing, as she's courageously trying to argue for the survival of all those people whom she saw as deserving to continue living. If you don't know what I mean, google "christine miller jonestown". Then listen to You Know What I Mean, and then you will know what I mean. |
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