Manchuria Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bugmenot 

Cover art for Manchuria lyrics by Pinback

My first thought was that it had something to do with the Doolittle Raid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid

though as I read more about the specifics of the raid and read more into the specifics of the song (particularly the second half), I begin to doubt it. And anyway, if it was about the Doolittle Raid, that makes the song anti-World War II, which is a pretty bizarre and out-there position to take.

I don't know about manufacturing consent, but I wonder if anyone has seen the other two, which are old movies, one by a famous surrealist director and the other I've never heard of.