| David Bowie – This Is Not America Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Timothy Hutton's character, Christopher Boyce, goes rogue as a result of profound disillusionment with the CIA when the squalid reality of their dirty tricks overthrows his idealistic illusions. This causes him to plummet into a maelstrom of espionage wherein he is unable to orient himself in a solid sense of reality. "This is not America" refers to the "America" of his naïve, childlike dreams. "America" is an ideological illusion and fetishtic fiction. |
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| David Bowie – This Is Not America Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[proteus:30617] Timothy Hutton's character, Christopher Boyce, goes rogue as a result of profound disillusionment with the CIA when the squalid reality of their dirty tricks overthrows his idealistic illusions. This causes him to plummet into a maelstrom of espionage wherein he is unable to orient himself in a solid sense of reality. "This is not America" refers to the "America" of his naïve, childlike dreams. |
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| David Bowie – This Is Not America Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Timothy Hutton's character, Christopher Boyce, goes rogue as a result of profound disillusionment with the CIA when the squalid reality of their dirty tricks overthrows his idealistic illusions. This causes him to plummet into a maelstrom of espionage wherein he is unable to orient himself in a solid sense of reality. "This is not America" refers to the "America" of his naïve, childlike dreams. |
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| Rowland S. Howard – Autoluminescent Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The singer imagines himself as a comet as he recounts the trials, tribulations and loves of his life. The comet or shooting star also serves as an image of his current sense of self-affirmation after the darkness - "nightmare" - that he has returned from. | |
| Magazine – A Song From Under The Floorboards Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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>>>""I am an insect" does not refer to Kafka - anyone who's read 'The Metamorphosis' will recall that the main character was displeased to be an insect." The song lyrics do NOT indicate a man who is "pleased" to be an insect. And the reference to Kafka is then quite obvious. Like the narrator of Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground", the singer is also filled with self-loathing. As is indicated throughout when he refers to himself. "My force of habit, I am an insect I have to confess I'm proud as hell of that fact" is therefore meant to be ambiguous, containing the words "confess" and "hell". Where Howard Devoto's song goes beyond both Dostoevsky and Kafka - the real beauty and creative genius of the song lyrics - is the real affirmation of truly transcendent qualities of "beauty"; "the highest and the best". And most obviously the *MUSIC* of the song is full of lyrical beauty. As well as Magazine's signature discordance. It is only that the singer is always dismayed at his failure to be worthy of these transcendent aspects of the world. |
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| Magazine – A Song From Under The Floorboards Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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>>>""I am an insect" does not refer to Kafka - anyone who's read 'The Metamorphosis' will recall that the main character was displeased to be an insect." The song lyrics do NOT indicate a man who "pleased" to be an insect. Like the narrator of Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground", the singer is also filled with self-loathing. As is indicated throughout when he refers to himself. "My force of habit, I am an insect I have to confess I'm proud as hell of that fact" is therefore meant to be amgious |
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| Suede – Trash Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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A common tattoo and slogan during the punk period was "We are the flowers in your dustbin" https://www.google.com.au/search?q=we+are+the+flowers+in+your+dustbin&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7At_VMmuOIa4mwWp1IKQDA&ved=0CCUQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=890 |
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