| Lords of the New Church – Russian Roulette Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Red:38067] October It's mostly about psychological dissociation. The Coppola line is a reference to Apocalypse Now and if you watch it you'll see that the dreams are nightmares and the main character suffers throughout. I posted a comment with more context which I'd not expect younger people to know and that's why it's so easily misunderstood. |
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| Lords of the New Church – Russian Roulette Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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The song is about the Vietnam war. It's from the perspective of a probably drafted young man. For context drug use was rampant. Doing pot was really common and the army gave soldiers speed like it was candy. 2.5 million doses officially. LSD, heroin and cocaine were also around. And adrenaline is a helluva drug. It was a 365 day rotation so that's "I'm gonna get through any way I can" It's about being high af and feeling groovy sometimes. Other times feeling mean, so pick your drug here but speed can do that especially if you're coming down off it and want more. "I'm in the movies" is about psychological dissociation. Feeling out of body and none of this is real and I'm not real. It's really common in trauma victims. "I'm a Nuremberg stepper blowin' wets away" - represents losing all sense of morality and wets are the sweaty people who live here. A lot of times in Vietnam there were no rules, shoot civilians and just add it to the body count figures and pretend they were enemy combatants as they say today. Body count was how the US measure success during the war. Officer reports his boys killed civilians it's a problem says they killed Viet Cong he gets a pat on the back. So no rules in the field. Gimme gimme some of that is the adrenaline rush and being high on I can do anything I want here feeling. Russian roulette was also used as a way to try to get prisoners to talk and give up intel. It's actually a brilliant and nuanced song. The music la la la you into feeling high and then the chorus and guitar work create the feeling of being mean and powerful and alive. |
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