Having read westost's and Casiotone's interpretations, which really helped me to come to my conclusion, I think that they're satirizing fanaticism. I'm imagining a 13 or 14 year old girl here. She's grown up "safely" in the country, protected. Her parents (or since "mothers" are mentioned a couple of times here, her father) have demonized the city, and though she may like living in the country, she also just wants to dance ("I just want your music tonight.") It's about control (having to wear a mask, TOO far away from the city, etc.), and about the perils of being extremist, and how sometimes when we think we're "protecting" others, we're hurting them. And there are overtones of the consequences of taking your beliefs too far: "and the mothers walked toward the forest."
Having read westost's and Casiotone's interpretations, which really helped me to come to my conclusion, I think that they're satirizing fanaticism. I'm imagining a 13 or 14 year old girl here. She's grown up "safely" in the country, protected. Her parents (or since "mothers" are mentioned a couple of times here, her father) have demonized the city, and though she may like living in the country, she also just wants to dance ("I just want your music tonight.") It's about control (having to wear a mask, TOO far away from the city, etc.), and about the perils of being extremist, and how sometimes when we think we're "protecting" others, we're hurting them. And there are overtones of the consequences of taking your beliefs too far: "and the mothers walked toward the forest."