| Carpenter Brut – Anarchy Road Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Dystopian vision of future anarchy and decay, as portrayed in several sci-fi films of the 1980s. The song conjures images of "Rotten Apple" New York, or even parts of present day Detroit. "Ruins and leavers everywhere" seems to refer directly to the abandonment of urban centers as anarchy takes hold. "Behind every spy hole" has two meanings: 1. a suggestion of an authoritarian government monitoring its citizens 2. those citizens monitoring each other through fear and mistrust. I can't listen to this without immediately thinking about Terminator, Running Man, Blade Runner, Escape from New York, Robocop, They Live, etc. |
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| Bad Religion – Generator Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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So the famous triplet at the start is about the impassiveness of giant celestial-level objects to the human struggle. The writer is as unaffected by the triumphs and ills of society as the universe is unaffected by humanity. The rest is a mixture of pseudo-violent and natural imagery, designed to conjure a picture of chaos that the writer believes is the true manifestation of the Universe. The metaphor of running like blood washed from a door is, in my opinion, both a reference to death and impermanence and the futility of the human condition. The writer knows he's already dead, as certainly as the bone under his skin. Actors in a photograph are - critically - not acting. Paper in the wind is also a reference to the fleeting nature of life. The generator and the turbines are a metaphor for the cycle of life and death. They are the universe hinted at in the first three lines. Ultimately it is an existential cry. It doesn't ask for meaning; it assumes there is none. There is a longing for meaning in the entire song. (Bear in mind Brett was probably balls deep in heroin when he wrote this.) |
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