| Lupe Fiasco – Unforgivable Youth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Seems to be a Past, Present and Future of the world (I would say only western civilisation but as there seems to be no record of the USA in the future, you have to assume there was some form of global apocalypse, obviously it is centred around north america. "Now along the shore and so aware of their arriving Other children of this land prepared to share in their surviving A pageantry of feathers stands his majesty with treasure Not the material things of kings that could never last forever But secrets of the spirit world and how to live in harmony together Unbeknownst to him his head would be the first that they would sever" Reference to the first boats landing in North America, how the native welcomed them but the foreigners seeing them as godless savages and brought natives to near extinction. The second verse tells us how the settlers ravaged the land of everything, 'you kill but do not eat', hunting for game and disrupting the eco-systems, e.g. numbers of buffalo dropped dramatically. This verse also highlights the colonists lack of respect for the land, 'don't repair it when they leave it' etc. 'And our mistakes will be repeated by your future generations doomed to pay for your mistreatment', their descendents will be taught to live the same way, eventually the natural resources they are abusing will run out, when they do, it will be the problem of the generation alive at that time, it will be them who pays for the mistakes of their ancestors. Also, with global warming due to make the world a much harsher place, it is largely the western nations to blame for this. The final verse is from a futuristic perspective of scientists and historians discovering and ancient civilisation, based on their findings they assume that the civilisation was at its peak (so perhaps not cut short just to a nuclear war for example but by a lack of resources to stay alive?). All the assumptions are pretty much the opposite of what the civilisation was actually like. With religion in this present day dwindling, they struggle to find out what the main religion of this civilisation was but note that a great temple seems to be the focal point of some kind of religious group. The great temple is in fact the white house, this is telling us how religion has become less and less a part of the western world and is replaced more and more with politics that the people from the future confuse the government head quarters for a religious temple. |
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