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Skyless Kingdom of faceless apes
Sunless city and spineless shapes
In twenty seventy or so
Tenements on fire
Blazing through endless nights
Heavy downpours of charcoal rain
Spewing sewers and belching drains
In twenty seventy or so
Tenements on fire
Blazing through endless nights
And behind every spy hole
Car wrecks and barbwire
Dirty streets and knife fights
Ruins and leavers everywhere
Fear of a pagan world
Behind the flames and the prayers
Soulless creatures burn
In twenty seventy or so
Tenements on fire
Blazing through endless nights
And behind every spy hole
(In the navel of God)
Car wrecks and barbwire
Dirty streets and knife fights
In twenty seventy or so
(in the navel of God)
Car wrecks and barbwire
In twenty seventy or so
(in the navel of God)
Sunless city and spineless shapes
In twenty seventy or so
Tenements on fire
Blazing through endless nights
Heavy downpours of charcoal rain
Spewing sewers and belching drains
In twenty seventy or so
Tenements on fire
Blazing through endless nights
And behind every spy hole
Car wrecks and barbwire
Dirty streets and knife fights
Ruins and leavers everywhere
Fear of a pagan world
Behind the flames and the prayers
Soulless creatures burn
In twenty seventy or so
Tenements on fire
Blazing through endless nights
And behind every spy hole
(In the navel of God)
Car wrecks and barbwire
Dirty streets and knife fights
In twenty seventy or so
(in the navel of God)
Car wrecks and barbwire
In twenty seventy or so
(in the navel of God)
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Dystopian vision of future anarchy and decay, as portrayed in several sci-fi films of the 1980s.
The song conjures images of "Rotten Apple" New York, or even parts of present day Detroit. "Ruins and leavers everywhere" seems to refer directly to the abandonment of urban centers as anarchy takes hold.
"Behind every spy hole" has two meanings: 1. a suggestion of an authoritarian government monitoring its citizens 2. those citizens monitoring each other through fear and mistrust.
I can't listen to this without immediately thinking about Terminator, Running Man, Blade Runner, Escape from New York, Robocop, They Live, etc.