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Material World Lyrics

You in your fancy
Material world
Don't see the links of chain
Binding blood

Our own ancestors
Are hungry ghosts
Closets so full of bones
They won't close

Call it upward mobility
But you've been sold down the river
Just another form of slavery
And the whole man-made white world
Is your master

You in your fancy
Material world
Create in your own image
A supreme god

Your virgin mary
Your holy ghosts
Claimed to be pure of heart
Have hands that are stained with blood

You in your fancy
Material world
Don't see the links of chain
Binding
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For Passover Jesus ate lamb/goat. If meat is good enough for Jesus, it's surely good enough for me:) As for what the dental profession (Yes, the dental profession) calls the "canine teeth," they are part of evolution. We graduated from eating nuts; berries; leaves etc to meat. Just loved your fruit comment. Yes, it's mighty difficult to rip into a peeled banana or a peach without having pointy teeth;) Not sure about the Barbie reference, but most individuals stop playing with them before they reach adolescence. As for the song, I love the artist but the song is sacreligious and frankly quite stupid. The Virgin Mary is pure. The mother of God is not responsible for how flawed humans choose to live. We have to take full responsiblity for our personal choices. God gave us free will and we often screw it up royally. Quite frankly, your final analysis that this song points to God being a vegan/vegetarian is just plain...well, bananas:)

@interpretationdechanson it’s a reference to how many people have died in the name of religion, mainly Christianity. We claim that the Virgin Mary and a myriad of other figures in religious text are pure, meanwhile “if you don’t believe in the god I believe in, I’ll kill you.” We often misconstrue, which is easy to do when most religious texts are just one big game of telephone. Constant translation and twisting of the stories to fit our narrative have corrupted us. Much like materialism. Bananas make good food for thought.

Cover art for Material World lyrics by Tracy Chapman

This song speaks of how we've come to believe in "The American Dream" of materialism. In doing so we often don't see that we've fallen into a (white) man made trap of being a slave to our jobs, corporations and to the idea of "needing" more money

Cover art for Material World lyrics by Tracy Chapman

I'm not sure what she means when she says:

Your virgin Mary Your Holy Ghosts Claimed to be pure of heart Have hands stained with blood

Alot of things point towards Jesus/ Virgin Mary, being vegetarians, or vegans.

LOL...take a look at who/what you date to make yourself feel like a man then get back to me about who is the material one. You slam capitalism daily because you don't believe you have as much as others (or as much as you're owed), yet it's your habits that deplete your wallet. When's the last time you saved money? You wear your secondhand clothes to try to prove to others that you're not materialistic, but you're more superficial than most. Just look at how you live your life.

And for gawd's sake, look at your f-ing canine...

FRONT and POINTY! Oh, who the fuck cares.

Hey Bringonthemusic20 What re you implying?

 
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