| Rage Against the Machine – Killing In The Name Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It is definitely "work forces" and "burn crosses" as rem_wolf said you can hear it clearly on some live versions. As for the meaning, from the BBC, "...it's impossible not to hear echoes of the racial tensions around the trial when frontman Zack de la Rocha links policemen to Klansmen. But it doesn't sound like a news report - it sounds like a sermon. And religion is there in the next line too, a shouted "Killing in the name of! In early-90s America, that phrase was most often followed by "God", "freedom" or "democracy" - all sardonic references to the then-recent war in Iraq. Buddhist Monk Quang Duc sets himself alight in a suicide protest over the alleged persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese Government Not the normal subject matter for a Christmas record sleeve. Add in the sleeve's image of Vietnamese monk Quang Duc setting himself alight and we see that the enemy is our old friend the military-industrial complex, justifying killing for the benefit of, as the song puts it, "the chosen whites"." |
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| Radiohead – I Will. (No Man's Land.) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about a bunker that was destroyed during the first Gulf War that ended up being a bomb shelter full of women and children. From Thom: "You said it’s the angriest thing you’ve ever written." Thom: "Yes. Well yeah, I guess it is. I mean… It’s quite simple really, I had an extremely unhealthy obsession, that ran through the ‘Kid A’ thing, about the first Gulf War. When they started it up they did that lovely thing of putting the camera on the end of the missile, and you got to see the wonders of modern military technology blow up this bunker. And then sometime afterwards in the back pages it was announced, that that bunker was not full of weapons at all, but women and children. And it was actually a bomb shelter. And so everybody… we all got to witness the wonders of modern technology. And it ran through so much stuff for so long for me. I just could not get it out of my head. It was so sick. And so that’s where the anger comes from. We did the most dreadful version of it. It was all that programmed… just a disaster. But interestingly something good came out, because we turned the tape over and it became ‘Spinning Plates’." (XFM, spring 2003) |
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