i love this song it is so awesome, its sung so happily about what life is really like. In my opinion i think its about how the gov't in america treated the vietnam war to the to public, If you look at the lyrics is obvious, i always thought it was about war and when i saw "The yellow Buddhist monk is burning brightly at the zoo" it was so obvious, when we dropped the bomb over hiroshima and the people who lived their burned up, i read a book about it, and i recall their was monks in it and one was burned badly, and when it says the thing about the zoo, its the gov't treating it like a nice situation like hey lets go to the zoo and watch innocent people be burned by our bombs, SUGARCOATING, and the song captures it perfectly because the song is SUGARCOATED to mock the american gov't, it has what was happening and then how they treated it, like in a happy casual way to convince people no worrys. this is my favorite b/c it captures my views exactly
Actually, if this song is about the Vietnam war (and I agree that it is, at least in part; it's also about commercialist capitalism- "flourescent Christmas cheer" and fashionable boutiques, enlightenment at an expensive price courtesy of your local "Bentley-driving guru," which may be a slam at the Maharishi- run rampant and middle-class complacency in the face of violence and turmoil), the "yellow Buddhist monk" probably has a more specific reference related directly to that conflict. A number of people, most famously one young Buddhist monk in his saffron robes in central Saigon in 1963, immolated themselves in Vietnam to...
Actually, if this song is about the Vietnam war (and I agree that it is, at least in part; it's also about commercialist capitalism- "flourescent Christmas cheer" and fashionable boutiques, enlightenment at an expensive price courtesy of your local "Bentley-driving guru," which may be a slam at the Maharishi- run rampant and middle-class complacency in the face of violence and turmoil), the "yellow Buddhist monk" probably has a more specific reference related directly to that conflict. A number of people, most famously one young Buddhist monk in his saffron robes in central Saigon in 1963, immolated themselves in Vietnam to protest the war and U.S. involvement in it. Pictures of the young man in flames in 1963 were available in Life magazine and elsewhere.
i love this song it is so awesome, its sung so happily about what life is really like. In my opinion i think its about how the gov't in america treated the vietnam war to the to public, If you look at the lyrics is obvious, i always thought it was about war and when i saw "The yellow Buddhist monk is burning brightly at the zoo" it was so obvious, when we dropped the bomb over hiroshima and the people who lived their burned up, i read a book about it, and i recall their was monks in it and one was burned badly, and when it says the thing about the zoo, its the gov't treating it like a nice situation like hey lets go to the zoo and watch innocent people be burned by our bombs, SUGARCOATING, and the song captures it perfectly because the song is SUGARCOATED to mock the american gov't, it has what was happening and then how they treated it, like in a happy casual way to convince people no worrys. this is my favorite b/c it captures my views exactly
Actually, if this song is about the Vietnam war (and I agree that it is, at least in part; it's also about commercialist capitalism- "flourescent Christmas cheer" and fashionable boutiques, enlightenment at an expensive price courtesy of your local "Bentley-driving guru," which may be a slam at the Maharishi- run rampant and middle-class complacency in the face of violence and turmoil), the "yellow Buddhist monk" probably has a more specific reference related directly to that conflict. A number of people, most famously one young Buddhist monk in his saffron robes in central Saigon in 1963, immolated themselves in Vietnam to...
Actually, if this song is about the Vietnam war (and I agree that it is, at least in part; it's also about commercialist capitalism- "flourescent Christmas cheer" and fashionable boutiques, enlightenment at an expensive price courtesy of your local "Bentley-driving guru," which may be a slam at the Maharishi- run rampant and middle-class complacency in the face of violence and turmoil), the "yellow Buddhist monk" probably has a more specific reference related directly to that conflict. A number of people, most famously one young Buddhist monk in his saffron robes in central Saigon in 1963, immolated themselves in Vietnam to protest the war and U.S. involvement in it. Pictures of the young man in flames in 1963 were available in Life magazine and elsewhere.