This song deserves to have a whole bunch of comments. Muswell Hillbillies is a pretty good album, but this first song is incredible. This is one of the best portrayals of modern day fatigue and weariness, the absurdity of war, the onslaught of technology and the loss of humanity and everyday emotion that I've heard. It's about how the hustle and bustle of this day and age swallows the individual. You lose your ambition, your privacy, your liberty. People are aggravated and disturbed by the loss of empathy and the rise of war and technology. The quainter times are lost and desperation sets in.
That's what I get from these lyrics. A sense that time is swallowing up your soul and you're losing in the insanity of modern times. I'd very much like to cover this song. It's a powerful social comment on the flaws of modern living and the fragility of the human condition. It's about the abuse of power and resources to crush the individual.
'I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in gray'
This part is so wonderfully melodic and epic, and shot through and through with weariness. Sounds like he's given up on life, he's got nowhere to go in this society, but then at the end he's fighting back and screaming 'This is the twentieth century. But too much aggravation!!. There's life left in him, he'll fight back.
This song deserves to have a whole bunch of comments. Muswell Hillbillies is a pretty good album, but this first song is incredible. This is one of the best portrayals of modern day fatigue and weariness, the absurdity of war, the onslaught of technology and the loss of humanity and everyday emotion that I've heard. It's about how the hustle and bustle of this day and age swallows the individual. You lose your ambition, your privacy, your liberty. People are aggravated and disturbed by the loss of empathy and the rise of war and technology. The quainter times are lost and desperation sets in.
That's what I get from these lyrics. A sense that time is swallowing up your soul and you're losing in the insanity of modern times. I'd very much like to cover this song. It's a powerful social comment on the flaws of modern living and the fragility of the human condition. It's about the abuse of power and resources to crush the individual.
'I was born in a welfare state Ruled by bureaucracy Controlled by civil servants And people dressed in gray'
This song is amazing.