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| Bad Religion – Robin Hood in Reverse Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"Brand new sham can be also related how the state/ robbers create other topics to distract the people and have them the bail-outs soon forget"
Also a tribute to Sham 69 - "when the kids are united, they can never be divided"
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| Bad Religion – Robin Hood in Reverse Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"Brand new sham can be also related how the state/ robbers create other topics to distract the people and have them the bail-outs soon forget"
Also a tribute to Sham 69 - "when the kids are united, they can never be divided"
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| Bad Religion – Robin Hood in Reverse Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Absolutely right. it definitely points to the cartoon version of Robin Hood, also can I add that in addition to the rich robbing from the poor and giving to the rich, he is now an old aging Fox losing energy and ambition. |
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| Bad Religion – Turn on the Light Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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agree. The literal meaning has always struck me because of the visual it paints. 100% agree that a skyscraper is being described and also the reference to Roman candle, and a beacon in the night, both burn wildly and no matter how fantastic eventually fizzle out, like the Roman Empire or the "Million white blinding lights" could be a racial drop on Caucasians but more likely talking about how even stars will dwarf. |
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| Bad Religion – Turn on the Light Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I agree. The literal meaning has always struck me because of the visual it paints. 100% agree that a skyscraper is being described and also the reference to Roman candle, and a beacon in the night, both burn wildly and no matter how fantastic eventually fizzle out, like the Roman Empire or the "Million white blinding lights" could be a racial drop on Caucasians but more likely talking about how even stars will dwarf. |
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| Bad Religion – I Won't Say Anything Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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1. Desmond "The Human Zoo" 2. DesCartes - "Ad Homine" 3. Hobbes "Leviathan"
What I take from it is really the literal meaning of the chorus "I can't deny it. But I won't say anything, unless you ask it right" -- Everything referenced in the song is linked to some form of existence, whether it be animal, the symbolic machine with or without a soul (living or living ghost) or a monster such as The Leviathan. None of these levels of existence are able to be communicated without human intervention and interpretation. So, " I can't deny it. I won't say anything. " literally means the subject cannot speak. And I think the song is about programming and non-existence without cues to act, by a trainer or authority role etc.... "Unless you ask it right" could be a mindless question or could be as simple as a dog only knowing "to sit, roll over" after it is communicated by a master. Or in the case of a monster, "And then he screamed" - Showing it knows only that and asking it a question is just ironically behaving like the master has trained by using language. "Bribed the grim proprietor with milk and tangerines" - A middle ground understanding/offering of goods that are obvious to any level of thing that eats or symbolically (Mothers milk to Paradise) as that line is definitely a human funeral scene "righteous limousine" ---- just my takE. |
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| Bad Religion – Anesthesia Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I won't rehash the Susan Atkins reference, which is obvious enough, being that occurred in Bad Religion's SOCAL. And, all the analysis about addiction is pretty clear as well. But there is a third, albeit discreet, reference which layers on top of Anesthesia' s role as a beautiful temptation. "Here comes Oblivion" - alludes, of course, to the end of something arduous in a dramatic fashion. But calling out to "Anna" then to Mona Lisa, is a Tolstoy nod. Anna Karenina is neither "Anesthesia" nor "Mona Lisa" but becomes so disillusioned with being The Perfect Woman, that her jealousy for The Duke sees only perfect women before she jumps on the train tracks and kills herself. So essentially, Brett is calling out to the real Anna and then sarcastically to Mona Lisa, mocking his own status. |
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