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The Tiananmen Man Lyrics
On june fifth, in the year of eighty-nine,
he was unarmed with focused mind
Deflance glared down the barrel of the gun pointed from a tank in tiananmen square
And he stood there:
To control, to manipulate, the media his power slave
He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan
To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen
Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them
Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan
Manipulate the media
He used blind faith in the face of anarchy,
the cybernetic rapture has begun to envelop me
Freedom is the rush, adrenaline high,
choice of the oppressed wiling to die
Like a hostage the government holds your drug
To control, to manipulate, the media his power slave
He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan
To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen
Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them
Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan
Manipulate the media
His act was a cybernetic gesture
His act was a cybernetic gesture
He knew the world was watching, knew he had a plan
To confront the powerful tyranny in the square of tiananmen
Ecstatic youth played with fire, freedom wash over them
Democracy their desire, the tiananmen man had a plan
Manipulate the media, manipulate the media
Manipulate to control
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Er, this song is about the Tianenman man who stood in front of the tanks and got on telly! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
Does anyone know who plays what solo in this song and when? I'm trying to figure out when Jeff and Pat solo, because this is one of those albums which annoyingly doesn't give that info.
the best way to tell (or guess) is that Jeff has a certain style that you can kinda begin to tell from listening to all the albums. usually differing guitar tones help in cases like these as well, but unfortunately the politics of ecstacy album has one of the tinniest lead guitar tones ive heard, no thanks to the overrated neil kernon.... honestly i cant tell.... during the main solo section i think Jeff playes first, followed by Pat, but its just a guess.