| Chevelle – Hats Off to the Bull Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I find this very unlikely that the song was about individualism or bourgeois liberty. They wrote a song on the same album about anger against Bernie Madoff called "Face to the Floor" My source is the interview with Revolver Magazine | |
| Chevelle – Hats Off to the Bull Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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So my interpretation of the song is that it is about Occupy Wall Street (a left-wing political activist movement with an alleged anarchist structure of direct democracy inspired by the Arab Spring taking place in 2011 in New York City) If you need more information of the Occupy Movement, there is plenty of information over the internet "All our needs put together Don't bleed on their own" = "Harm to one is harm to us all" "You paid for an eyeful" = Referring over 6 trillion dollars in tax payer money that was given mostly to major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, which leads me to the next line "So behold the bull" = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull "Why can't I look up, (out in the clearing) Tell me what's there below, (end over end)" = Referring to the stock investors and CEOs looking down on the crowds of people and them looking back up. There were even various reports of the two "trolling" each other after various stock investors were throwing down employment applications for various fast food chains such as Subway and McDonald's onto the streets of New York. "While he's safe for the moment, (guess what he's learning)" = A line suggesting what Chris Hayes called the "Twilight of the Elite" when figures like Stephen King were making references to the French Revolution and Occupy Wall Street, suggesting the end of the "elite" in not so pleasant means "He's never safe from the crowd, come on" = The notion that a revolution can occur at any given moment when the living conditions of the average citizen are in "recession" "So hats off to the bull No giving up" = A sort of strange politeness toward an opponent as if to call Wall Street a formidable enemy and the second line sounds just as it implies that the people will not give up the fight (Either way, it makes ya mad) (Well some of us) = Reference to the anger people felt and still feel to this day and the reactionary element of the right-wing in America with ideas such as the "boot strap theory" claiming the problems within peoples' lives can only be regarded as the fault of the individual experiencing them "Hats off to the bull, keep giving all (What ya say we make amends)" = A sort of support of Liberal ideas. That there should be negotiation between the haves and the have-nots to avoid civil unrest "To be monumental Could mean the beyond" = "The inability to grasp the pathology of our oligarchic rulers is one of our greatest faults"-Chris Hedges, Let's Get This Class War Started https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6unS2JF8TA "The simpler the treasure Means the higher the cost" = Houses and cars are some of the most expensive on the market and yet they are practically necessary to live a decent life as housing means shelter and cars have become such a common means of transportation that a lack of an automobile could mean the rejection of a job application "Well as for the ending, damn right I'm learning" = Referring to the Occupy Movement as much more of an enlightenment of class consciousness as opposed to a revolution "You might ask for the door, end over end" = Referring to the way out of the tactic of occupation. Majority of participants in the Occupy Movement were working class members of society who actually couldn't "occupy" in the strictest sense of the term "Well I hate how the clouds hide The gasps from above" = Again, referring to the "Twilight of the Elites" and their awareness of class warfare from above being necessary to maintain economic "stability" So hats off to the bull No giving up (Either way, it makes ya mad) (Well some of us) Hats off to the bull, keep giving all (What ya say we make amends) "Find your challenge, suffer miles" = Referring to the many causes that Occupy brought to the table and the long trails that this mass movement faced in police brutality, infiltration, surveillance, the corporate media, etc. "Colors gray, he brings them out" = Not too sure what is gray. I would assume the conditions of those striving for a better life bring them out to this park as a means of expressing the suffering of people. After all, the economic crisis was in part due to the housing bubble and various financial institutions taking advantage of that crisis to warrant illegal foreclosures "Don't mind the challenge, suffer miles A little shallow, if I don't say" = I would assume the shallowness of the corporate media in assuming the Occupy Movement to be full of Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, although the movement was structured in an left-wing Anarchist fashion "Hats off to the bull His time ain't up" = Again, referring to this as being a beginning, not an end "(Bitter hell in the lion's den) For some of us" = I would say for most of us, but I digress "Hats off to the bull The sun won't set (Till the pain and the final breath)" = Sensing a sort of cynicism, but also perhaps the notion of "It is darkest just before the dawn" So hats off to the bull No giving up (Either way, it makes ya mad) (Well some of us) Hats off to the bull, keep giving all (What ya say we make amends) Hats off to the bull No giving up Hats off to the bull Keep giving up Hats off to the bull No giving up Hats off to the bull I hope this gave an interesting look into my interpretation of the song. I will completely accept that this is merely my interpretation of the lyrics, but just keep in mind that "nothing exists outside the text" |
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