| The Boxer Rebellion – Spitting Fire Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Dissing television, perhaps; "What the rest did, I was average" => all the 'super' people that are portrayed on television that most people just can't measure up to "Your recruited head diluted through a glass eye" => a recruited head is one that buys into all the sensationalism and fabrications of television, the glass eye "Dreams in fiction, lost religion" => a reference to how television is so commonly used as forms of excapism or an excuse for one's own shortcomings "Runs on no sleep, drawn to defeat" => a television never needs to sleep and, again, the sensationalism of tv with an emphasis on its morbidity (drawn to defeat) "But I don't mind/ But I spit fire on lovers & liars/ And you don't believe me... And you don't deceive me/ And I find it easy" => Despite the prevalence of tv sensationalim, I don't mind because I can avoid/ignore it; 'spitting fire' is disregarding/discounting/resisting the draw of escaping into the alternate realities of television, alternate realities populated by 'lovers & liars'; the television & it's 'lovers & liars' don't (can't) listen to and therefore believe the singer, but the singer doesn't have to be deceived by it either- and he (she) finds it easy not to be deceived |
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