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When the rhythm calls the government falls Here come the cops
From Tokyo to Soweto viva la musica pop We are black & white
and we dance all night down at the hop and the letters were tall
on the Berlin Wall viva la musica pop so if you're feeling low
stuck in some bardo I, even I know the solution
love, music, wine and revolution love, love, love music, wine and revolution
This too shall pass so raise your glass to change and chance
and freedom is the only law shall we dance...
From Tokyo to Soweto viva la musica pop We are black & white
and we dance all night down at the hop and the letters were tall
on the Berlin Wall viva la musica pop so if you're feeling low
stuck in some bardo I, even I know the solution
love, music, wine and revolution love, love, love music, wine and revolution
This too shall pass so raise your glass to change and chance
and freedom is the only law shall we dance...
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Submitted by
anne Arbour On May 02, 2002
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fucking brilliant. music for dinner times.
Pretty sure its about the endless existence of love... something chemical that has existed for all time and has driven virtually all live to keep existing (in this case humans)
White and black as an allusion to yin and yang, which if you think about it... is just basically a glorified 69, I put these dots together some point looking at the album cover
Another angel of this is how the world itself can mirror love/ relationships "love music wine and revolution" especially in revolutions.. hella people die, hella change is so instantaneously sort of like changing/dying relationships but they are only transitions and love (as some unspoken force that drives humanity forward) remains and the majority after succeeding are a bit happier(?)
Who knows
I read this as an affectionate parody of the way we use the world as a prop in our personal romances, without really caring about anything beyond the radius between us, drinking leftism like wine. But Merritt's own comments suggest he was responding to the naive idea of world peace troped in cheesy rock music, substituting it with alcoholism and revolution, much more violent.
ill second that
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that last line is awesome
Love, music, wine indeed. ;p