| Interpol – NYC Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I was just doing some archaeology on songmeanings and wanted to get in on this 20-year-old thread by saying that this song has become a part of me in a way I couldn't have foreseen when I first heard it in 2002. | |
| The National – The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[soundingboard:38119] are you still out there? Yes, of course if we continue to call each other "evil" (and assuming you're also an American) we are headed to different sides of a war. And war is hell, but sometimes it's necessary (although more often, it isn't, even while it's happening). But I now ask you this: If a global evil came into the world, how would you recognize it? Would it show itself by breaking down barriers between all people, or by dividing them? Would it enrich the wealthiest of us, or those who have the least and suffer because of it? Would it build up the parts of our society that focus on the differences between peoples, or those that focus on the commonalities? And would it foster a proliferation of thought, or accept only those who themselves accept a sanctioned "truth"? You likely know how I would answer these. If we can't agree on most of the answers to these questions, then we are absolutely, inevitably, headed for a second civil war, fought on largely the same tortured societal territory as the first. Perhaps this will be our legacy; a nation perpetually moving toward yet another spasm of violence, if not living through one. |
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