"Kings Of The Wild Frontier" as written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni....
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
I feel beneath the white
There is a redskin suffering
From centuries of taming
No method in our madness
Just pride about our manner
Antpeople are the warriors
Antmusic is the banner!
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
And even when you're healthy
And your colour schemes delight
Down below those dandy clothes
You're just a shade too white
Shade too white!
Shade too white!
I feel beneath the white
There is a redskin suffering
From centuries of taming...
I feel beneath the white
There is a redskin suffering
From centuries of taming...
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
I feel beneath the white
There is a redskin suffering
From centuries of taming
No method in our madness
Just pride about our manner
Antpeople are the warriors
Antmusic is the banner!
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
A new Royal Family, a wild nobility, we are the family
And even when you're healthy
And your colour schemes delight
Down below those dandy clothes
You're just a shade too white
Shade too white!
Shade too white!
I feel beneath the white
There is a redskin suffering
From centuries of taming...
I feel beneath the white
There is a redskin suffering
From centuries of taming...
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Last I heard he's gone completely mad...what a shame.
The beat had me at hello when I heard it in Marie Antoinette!
What a geneous!
I feel beneath the white
there is a redskin suffering
from centuries of taming
he means that we have wiped out the indians and they are disappearing. i dont know thats just my take on it.
a wild nobility
we are the family
-Replacing current leaders/family units will be antmusic
I feel beneath the white
there is a redskin suffering
from centuries of taming
-Feeling wild underneath your current cultural norms, like a wild thing tamed by society and new structures and standards
"no method in our madness
just pride about our maner
Antpeople are the warriors
Antmusic is the banner!"
-Stop asking questions and get used to the music, it's got no purpose but to provide pleasure to others
and even when you're healthy
and your colour schemes delight
down below thos dandy clothes
you're just a shade too white
shade too white!
shade too white!
-Even if you've adapted yourself to these new regimes, governments and societal norms, and you say you're fine and proper and wear the expected clothing, act the expected way, there's a small part of you down below that's still wild and could break loose. Stop denying it.
I feel beneath the white
there is a redskin suffering
from centuries of taming...
-Underneath us all there's a wild one, much like the Natives in the USA who were forced into "white" clothing and given guns and tamed horses with saddles, they are still wild at heart and remember the old ways. No amount of polish, government or law can supress that instinct.
''and even when you're healthy
and your colour schemes delight
down below thos dandy clothes
you're just a shade too white
shade too white!
shade too white!
-Even if you've adapted yourself to these new regimes, governments and societal norms, and you say you're fine and proper and wear the expected clothing, act the expected way, there's a small part of you down below that's still wild and could break loose. Stop denying it.''
The song sound to me as a big worshipping of The Ants. The stanze I copied is I think about people copying the Ant-look, without being or ever being a real Ant/Indian, in the end they're just too white . The Natives were/aren't white, are they?.
Also, I believe that with the lines "I feel beneath the white
there is a redskin suffering
from centuries of taming... " he's saying that everyone has some sort of primitive savage inside them, just waiting to burst out and wreak havoc.