| TV on the Radio – DLZ Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Completely agree, I think this song can basically be taken as the 'title track' of the 'Dear Science' album. I'm sure someone else here mentioned it, but the title of the album comes from Dave Sitek's studio note "Dear Science, please start solving problems and curing diseases or shut the fuck up." I like all the discussion in the comments about the connections to drug use, but I would say that this song is more broadly critical of the entire scientific enterprise, with the way drugs are used, abused, and pushed(marketed) in society being but one example of how our scientific industry seems to be a greater failing than triumph. "On trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings" certainly makes me think of the bomb, but again, more broadly of how industrialization is literally altering our planet's atmosphere and beginning to make the earth uninhabitable, at least for the foreseeable future. Air sustains life (L. vita), vital breath, and so 'all that brings' refers to biological life, which is literally going extinct due to anthropogenic pressures. "But this is beginning to feel like the dog wants her bones saved ... And fortune strives to fill the vacuum that it feeds But this is beginning to feel like the dog's lost her lead" The promises that Science is going to, or has replaced God, and will provide us with an everlasting salvation, that we will live forever through Science, are deluded and we aren't in control. Instead the vacuous force of greed (fortune) has taken the lead, and we are merely repeating many of the same mistakes made by Religion in the past. Science has become an entity more concerned with feeding the greedy than feeding the needy. It has become authoritarian, totalitarian. Fucking corporations pumping out viagara to the highest bidders, and frivolous patent disputes between Apple and Samsung. "This is beginning to feel like the dawn of the luz of forever" The final light. Nothing more to be said, except I fucking love this song and the depth of the message it conveys. |
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