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a mutinous enemy carved a nascent country sweat, blood and valor forms the grit of our history bequeathed to everyone: chance and free expression substance was restrained and the spirit was broken i feel a strange denial rhythmic as change constant as time lonely insistent whispers somber as a wave bye bye searching for solution, without constitution blackcoats by our sides promising salvation advocating dogma as tickets to hereafter mortals in their prime with their desperate hands in the air daunting complex and burning rhythmic as change constant as time conflicts, craving approval weighted as a murder trial oh, i feel a strange denial correct is consensus everything else, nonsense forward is the hope forget recompense peace and tranquility is only for the wealthy dearth for the masses and inequality i feel a strange denial rhythmic as change constant as time lonely insistent whispers dissipating in the night like a lone forgotten light and no one is helping me it's a strange denial
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This song is AWESOME!
Some of Greg’s best lyrics were on this record. Just amazing
This song follows the course of many others on the album which are very critical of American history and its economic system of capitalism. The "mutinous enemy" is a reference to the colonists in rebellion against Britain. The reference to the "blackcoats" means puritans and religious revivalists who are a perennial feature of American pop culture.
I'm not sure what conflicts he is referring to if not America's many wars. Perhaps he is calling attention to our ongoing political battles, and "weighted as a murder trial" is a reference to our topsy-turvy election cycle.
A strange denial of our history is taking place as we ignore the errors of our past. Ignoring the impact of slavery, we perpetuate racial injustice. Ignoring the impact of religious puritanism, we perpetuate religious bigotry, hatred of LGBT and scientific illiteracy. Ignoring the causes that led to the creation of our capitalist economy (wealth collection through wage and chattel slavery in its founding days) will perpetuate the class conflicts that make our political system dysfunctional and render our "enlightened" Constitution brain-dead.
The lonely insistent whispers are those of the homeless, addicts, punks and other "outcasts" of society.