This song is timeless, and nearly 20 years after its creation, still possesses the mystique it did the first time i heard it ~1994. To me, at first blush, all those years ago, it had some kind of homo-erotic allure. The line "so that the others may do" tells of something which must be done for others to follow suit. It felt like like some kind of roxy-glam-pop invitation to sexual liberation.
Upon further introspection I think the song may not have an intrinsic meaning, but simply represents a sort of "holding open the door" for people who otherwise might be affronted by this song/band's unusual style. I know, as a sort of armchair rock-historian, that there have been few bands so daring and so true to the sound that wanted to emerge from within, whether the creator wanted it or not. This band handled it with elegance and grace seldom, if ever, seen.
You should have known us in our vietnam days
When we could save the planet saturating the tape
My closet bed, don't have time to sleep around it
Someday they're read about the world that we've created
Just for our heads, learn to swim or end up sinking
- chorus -
Unconditional
Imitational
For the senseless world
Our material
Crimes on paper
and since the here and now has come of age
And all my friends are tripping
Telling me to stretch my eyes around my head
Watch your back for real they tell me
Don't want to read about you boy in the obituary
Ignore what you've read, don't have time to read about it
- chorus -
Now maybe somewhere someone's jotting this down
So in a million years from now when it's stil around
They can wonder who we were
Wonder what we did, who we knew
And all the legends of our time
Are they really true, I doubt you do
Then again I wouldn't blame you
- chorus -
* repeat *
When we could save the planet saturating the tape
My closet bed, don't have time to sleep around it
Someday they're read about the world that we've created
Just for our heads, learn to swim or end up sinking
- chorus -
Unconditional
Imitational
For the senseless world
Our material
Crimes on paper
and since the here and now has come of age
And all my friends are tripping
Telling me to stretch my eyes around my head
Watch your back for real they tell me
Don't want to read about you boy in the obituary
Ignore what you've read, don't have time to read about it
- chorus -
Now maybe somewhere someone's jotting this down
So in a million years from now when it's stil around
They can wonder who we were
Wonder what we did, who we knew
And all the legends of our time
Are they really true, I doubt you do
Then again I wouldn't blame you
- chorus -
* repeat *
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