| Cake – Sheep Go To Heaven Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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For me, the song is about rejecting the "safe" or "usual" life, or embracing non-conformity, as calzones said. "I don't want to go to Sunset Strip, I don't want to feel the emptiness. Gold marquees with stupid band names." Using a band as the example here, you can live the safe life, but there will probably be an emptiness inside. You can make some money and know you'll be having your next meal or your bills were paid, or you can go do what's actually fun. In this case, probably driving out to the desert and having a fulfilling time singing around a small campfire with some friends, as opposed to playing Sunset Strip and basically only getting money for it. "I just want to play on my panpipes. I just want to drink me some wine. As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time." Using this to support the example, I'd rather go drink wine and play music for myself, than play for an audience that in at least some small way thinks they own me because they paid for a ticket. What I love about this song is the simple pagan metaphors. While others were being religious and doing what they were told was right, pagans would go out in the middle of the night, get a goat, tear it to shreds, eat it, drink wine and have an orgy. They are the ancient version of the previous example. They only had so much time to live, so rather than pleasing a deity or a monarch, they chose to please themselves. The Church obviously not a fan, and began to use goat features to portray the devil. As marvinos said, often a man's body with a goat features on its head and goat legs. And of course the obvious biblical reference. Jesus being the shepherd who cares for his sheep, the followers. The goats, who prefer to be on their own, won't be protected by the shepherd (upon death or a rapture). The pagans are fine with going to hell, they know they have this time to enjoy whether they go to hell or just die and that's it, spending their days shunned by those doing it the right way. The band members commit the egregious sin of not working, thus being shunned and shamed in a society that values its corporations more than its workers. There was a lot of money to be made by the studio, after all. My favorite part is at the end where going to hell is flipped around and the term "go to hell" is used to tell off "normal" society and show contentment with the choices to live a different life. ???? Part of me thinks the band just wanted to say "go to hell" over and over for fun. Similar to the end of Aerosmith's "Just Push Play". |
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| Cake – You Turn The Screws Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I might be interpreting this song at surface level, but I feel that it's about interaction with other people (especially corporate culture) and limitations due to only having one's own experience. You turn the screws, it's what you choose to do. You think that I must turn them too. Two professionals approaching work in different ways. "I" works and attempts to do the job well and that's all. "You" do the job, but also pressures and screws other workers, such as "I". But "You" is only acting the way they think other workers do, and feeis they have to turn the screws just to keep their job. It's the way they are, so they can't fathom that someone else might be just doing the job and not trying to screw them over. This is supported by "You twist the knife, then go home and kiss your wife." "You" truly feels they are doing nothing wrong. They've done what they believe everyone else does, and doesn't feel any remorse. As for the cement mixer, I think it's a metaphor for how it feels to work with "You". "I" is dealing with everyday stresses, but if they don't work to reverse what "You" is doing to them (talking behind their back, sabotaging, making work harder, outright bullying), the cement eventually covers "I" and even though "I" has worked just as hard, or likely harder than "You", they are at a disadvantage. One might apply this kind of thinking to CRT. |
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