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Down in the Park Lyrics
Down in the park where the machmen meet
Never ashamed to play kill by numbers
Down in the park with a friend called Five
I was in a car crash or was it the war
I've never been quite the same
Little white lies like I was there
Come to the Zoom-Zooms, a place to meet
Like it was built in one day
You can watch the humans try to run
Oh, look, there's a rape machine
I'd go outside if you'd look the other way
You wouldn't believe the things they do
(The things they do)
Down in the park where the chant is, "death, death. death" until the sun cries morning
Down in the park with the friends of mine
We are but lovers, we are but romantics, we are here to serve you
With a different face but the words never change
The words never change
The words never change
The words never change
Never ashamed to play kill by numbers
Down in the park with a friend called Five
I've never been quite the same
Little white lies like I was there
Like it was built in one day
You can watch the humans try to run
I'd go outside if you'd look the other way
You wouldn't believe the things they do
(The things they do)
Down in the park with the friends of mine
We are but lovers, we are but romantics, we are here to serve you
With a different face but the words never change
The words never change
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Submitted by
skroo On Aug 18, 2006
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Machmen are obviously transhumans, humans with machine implants etc. The line "I was in a car crash or was it a war but I've never been quite the same" seems to refer to being mortally wounded in some horrible acident, and then harvested and turned into a machman.
On the foofighters cover page, Carlstroem said: ""kill-by-numbers" obviously refers to "paint-by-numbers", so it's some kind of twisted game." I agree with that. Painting by numbers, killing by numbers, making the decision of whom to kill based on a flippant, shallow criteria that doesn't consider the value of life at all.
"With a friend called five". One of the numbers? His name is Five, an impersonal, assigned name. I wonder too, if "five" is a reference to humankind, man. Five is the number of man, Six of the devil, Seven of God and heaven. Could be something there...
"Like it was built in one day". Rome wasn't built in a day. So it's like this distopian civilisation is so new, built so quickly, came from nowhere. Alien. ALSO, not sure if this works but before Jesus died, he predicted his death in metaphor when he said Jerusalem would be destroyed but rebuilt in 3 days, referring to his resurrection. I'm sure I've read literature where this has been changed to 1 day, or people get it mixed up to be 1 day. So this could be a reference to resurrection into a Machman.
I would like to mention the other poster who found all the references to the William S Bourroughs story. "Death death death", "white lies" etc. That gives some big clues on what some of the lyrics mean.
I think the lyrics here are wrong "We are but lovers, we are but romantics, we are here to serve you". It should be "We are not lovers, we are not romantics, we are here to serve you".