| Harvey Danger – Humility On Parade Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Seems like it's a song about the American civil war and specifically general Sherman's march to the sea (Savannah). Sean eludes to it in this live performance at the 3:05 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGqWOitd8QY This road leads to rome: The sea (Savannah) or victory That road leads to ruin: Death or loss I’m all up in the madding crowd Frenzied crowd The general’s been screwin’ us around. Robert E. Lee's resistance. The land’s no longer arable: Sherman's scorched earth tactic. (The farmhands all feel terrible): Confederate soldiers... most of them were farmers before the war bgan A river red with rebel blood: Winning bloody battles against rebel (confederate) forces To sweep us off our feet: To give hope of victory all the way to Savannah. Humility on parade humility on parade: Confederates loss and shame The welcome was overstayed: The South's unwillingness to abolish slavery amd to relinquish states rights. The remnants of the leisure class will crumble!: The end of plantation (slave) owners. Smug bastards will be humbled!: Forced to surrender and give up their wealth for reperations of the war. No bow ties: No more southern aristocrats running the south Bo invitations! : No more offers of peace ..just miltary takeover. Goodbye to all of that: The old south will be gone forever. You gotta look the prisoners in the eyes: Try to understand why the confederates feel the way they did. A boldness in their stare you might not recognize: Confederates desire to fight so hard even though they were overmatched As you struggle to recall your names: Americans (pre-civil war) and Americans again (post war). Family and christian family and christian: brother against brother, christian againt christian Untenable position!: End of the conferderacy Here comes the inquisition: Now the south must bear the consequences of their action. ("yeah, it’ll come it’ll come it’ll surely come!") I am the mustard on the wedding dress. The weevil in the watercress: The big stain or negative conflict in American history I lost the language, I confess: Time heals (after end of war) Beyond the false horizon lies the rising up, the rising up: What could have been a confederate win, system of government and idealogy is replaced with hope for a stronger unified nation. |
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| Fishbone – Servitude Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think they are including a few subjects in one song. This line seems to be about music critics: What, what will you write? For whose pleasure, for whose delight? Will your readers see your light? Will you say... That the singer can`t blow you away? That we hate people just `cause they`re gay Women and children all stay away |
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| Fishbone – Black Flowers Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I feel it's a song about slavery and the struggle of black people as a whole: | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Snail Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Great song. Not sure about the meaning. Jimmy Chamberlain goes off near the end of the song, he's an amazing drummer. | |
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