| Guns N' Roses – Garden Of Eden Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is one of my favorite of all time, mainly because of its amazing lyrics. Garden Of Eden is all about criticism of the system as it works, manipulating people with religion and entertainment to prevent them from revolting against oppression. In this sense, I would link it with Peace Sells from Megadeth. Axl expresses that society is sick, it does not work functionally ("mental disease","world on edge" etc). Because changing what's wrong with it would cost the greedy leaders their powers, they refuse to acknowledge the truth and lie about the real situation ("syncophants", "lies their sell to you"). Because people are feeling something is wrong ("the east coast got the blues"), they try to distract them from political issues with religion, medias and drugs. The "it's not a problem you solve; it's rock n' roll" line actually reckons that rock n roll and its lifestyle (that GNR embodied at the time) by superficially relieving people from their everyday life problem encourages them to do nothing. The medias are hypocritical, when everybody feels angry about their place in society ("we've got racial violence" refers to racism and gang problems while "sex is used anyway it can be" is about rape and religious rejection of sexuality ), they ask to dance it away. The Organized Religions, working like companies motivated only by greed and power ("if they had someone to buy it they'd sure try to sell my soul") and helping the gov to control people, encourages passive behavior and imposes its outdated version of reality ("we're lost in the Garden of Eden", we can't escape the religious moral, but it doesn't convince people that much because "it's just another graveyard"). Those last lines actually sound pretty nietzschian to me, God and faith are dead and you have to replace it with something new, the christian set of rules and morality must be destroyed ("we're not talking about no golden apple or some missing rib, you hear?") and replaced by something new. |
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