"Or I'm looking for another way to process what happened on that birthday."
Ted Leo's birthday is on September 11, so here he's referring to the attacks on the World Trade Center.
He also refers to the then-impending war in Iraq:
"and if there's a war
Another shitty war to fight for Babylon
Then it's the perfect storm in a tea cup"
Babylon was located in present-day Iraq, and the First Gulf War was Operation Desert Storm, so that's where the "perfect storm" comes from.
@sublimerina for some reason, the music did not resonate with me when it came out. But, this song really did something to me a couple weeks ago when I just put a random shuffle on the lookout records catalog and a high party hit me...... Honestly, what really got me was the way he sang ba-ba babylon. I love how that's done throughout the whole song....pro pro propaganda. .....drink it down oun oun....fa fa factory farms I just saw something what's in my bag from amoeba records and he said people ask him so...
@sublimerina for some reason, the music did not resonate with me when it came out. But, this song really did something to me a couple weeks ago when I just put a random shuffle on the lookout records catalog and a high party hit me...... Honestly, what really got me was the way he sang ba-ba babylon. I love how that's done throughout the whole song....pro pro propaganda. .....drink it down oun oun....fa fa factory farms I just saw something what's in my bag from amoeba records and he said people ask him so you're really influence by Elvis Costello or Joe Jackson..... he says "nuh. ....Graham Parker". busts out Howlin Wind.
"Or I'm looking for another way to process what happened on that birthday."
Ted Leo's birthday is on September 11, so here he's referring to the attacks on the World Trade Center.
He also refers to the then-impending war in Iraq: "and if there's a war Another shitty war to fight for Babylon Then it's the perfect storm in a tea cup" Babylon was located in present-day Iraq, and the First Gulf War was Operation Desert Storm, so that's where the "perfect storm" comes from.
@sublimerina for some reason, the music did not resonate with me when it came out. But, this song really did something to me a couple weeks ago when I just put a random shuffle on the lookout records catalog and a high party hit me...... Honestly, what really got me was the way he sang ba-ba babylon. I love how that's done throughout the whole song....pro pro propaganda. .....drink it down oun oun....fa fa factory farms I just saw something what's in my bag from amoeba records and he said people ask him so...
@sublimerina for some reason, the music did not resonate with me when it came out. But, this song really did something to me a couple weeks ago when I just put a random shuffle on the lookout records catalog and a high party hit me...... Honestly, what really got me was the way he sang ba-ba babylon. I love how that's done throughout the whole song....pro pro propaganda. .....drink it down oun oun....fa fa factory farms I just saw something what's in my bag from amoeba records and he said people ask him so you're really influence by Elvis Costello or Joe Jackson..... he says "nuh. ....Graham Parker". busts out Howlin Wind.