Here's the opening monologue by Hubert Selby (an American novelist, wrote 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' amongst other things), for parity's sake:
"I knew that some day I was gonna die, and I knew before I died, that two things would happen to me: that, number one, I would regret my entire life, and that, number two, I would want to live my life over again."
A haunting confession, but I couldn't say with certainty what its relevance to the song is.
The fourth line should also read: 'Recognised truth' and not 'recognise truth', by the way, which changes the meaning slightly.
Misanthropic to say the least, the song is perfectly in keeping with the rest of the album. Partly it seems to be about turning a blind eye to atrocities, when, as Jeffjeffjeff says, sin is inherent in all of us ('Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul').
Like My Nothing, I don't think this song is an attack on men specifcally, it's an attack on all of humankind (although, yes, the title comes from the essay attacking men by Solanos) - the line is 'everyone is guilty', not 'men are guilty'.
Here's the opening monologue by Hubert Selby (an American novelist, wrote 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' amongst other things), for parity's sake:
"I knew that some day I was gonna die, and I knew before I died, that two things would happen to me: that, number one, I would regret my entire life, and that, number two, I would want to live my life over again."
A haunting confession, but I couldn't say with certainty what its relevance to the song is. The fourth line should also read: 'Recognised truth' and not 'recognise truth', by the way, which changes the meaning slightly.
Misanthropic to say the least, the song is perfectly in keeping with the rest of the album. Partly it seems to be about turning a blind eye to atrocities, when, as Jeffjeffjeff says, sin is inherent in all of us ('Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul'). Like My Nothing, I don't think this song is an attack on men specifcally, it's an attack on all of humankind (although, yes, the title comes from the essay attacking men by Solanos) - the line is 'everyone is guilty', not 'men are guilty'.