| System of a Down – Hypnotize Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This is my favorite song of all time. It's one of the deepest songs I've ever found. #1: Why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen square, is fashion the reason why they were there? This refers to the 1989 Tienanmen square protests in china where a ton of college students peacefully protested asking their government "The People's Republic Of China," for freedom democracy and basic human rights like freedom of speech and suffrage (the ability to vote). Many of them were killed by firing squad or being run over by tanks in a horrible suppression of human rights. The song asks, "Do you think the kids of Tienanmen square fought and died in protest because it was fashionable?" #2 "They disguise and hypnotize it television made you buy it." This part is about the civil liberties that 1st world countries slipping away and slowly being taken away while we do nothing. These being the same liberties that other people in places like China fought and died to try to attain. They disguise it and hypnotize it means they are changing the meaning of certain elements of it while they take away what is most important. "Television made you buy it" is about how people seem to just accept what is shown to the on the news without even thinking, "is this true," #3: I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl. I'm doing nothing. I'm a normal person caring about normal things. #4: She's scared that I will take here away from there. Her dreams and her country left with no one there. She (the girlfriend) cares about things greater then herself, (possibly from another country and has insight into the injustices.) She's scared that she will lose her freedom of thought and fall into the same hypnosis that engulfs America. #5: Memorize the simple minded. Propaganda leaves us blinded. Another reference to modern media brainwashing people who believe everything they hear without checking the facts at to what actually happens. #6: I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl. I'm just a normal person, what do you expect of me. They repeat this a few times, kind of like an excuse. |
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