Sayna - "20K tone" is an audio test tone that they would broadcast through the television when a channel was off air, supposedly to make sure that the frequency and broadcasting is working properly, though I believe they switched to 1K tones at some point. (I don't know if they even ever used 20K tones.) 20K is actually too high for a lot of people to hear, so maybe she was implying that it was some sort of brainwashing.
I agree that this song is about how brainwashed society has become because of the media and big companies. I also think "Well step back, look up, you'll see I'm dimming the sun
But you won't will you? No, that's a good little one" is talking about how we're all taught to ignore certain things when they're not easily fixed - sort of like pretending the problem doesn't exist, e.g. the Bush Administration denying the fact that global warming exists.
The one part of this song that actually really confuses me is "And cancer the great teacher has been opening schools
Down stream from every factory still, everywhere fools
Are squinting into microscopes researching cells
Trying to figure out a way that we can all live in hell"
It sounds as if she's talking about cancer in a good way, that stem cell research is getting us nowhere, but the entire verse may be sarcastic. I just don't think that describing people who are trying to find a cure for a horrible disease as fools is very fitting to her liberal perspective. Describing a world without cancer as "hell" seems completely over-the-top, which is one of the main reasons I think it might be sarcastic, though she doesn't sound particularly sarcastic.
Though this may just be her stating the first three lines from the perspective of those that believe stem-cell research is a waste of time, and then the fourth line is her jumping in to state her opinion on the situation.
Anyway, this song is amazing, though it's strikingly dark and creepy, especially "Never mind that the nanoseconds in between
Are some of the darkest darkness that you've ever seen". The ominous and almost dream-like feel of this song is probably one of the reasons I love it as much as I do.
Sayna - "20K tone" is an audio test tone that they would broadcast through the television when a channel was off air, supposedly to make sure that the frequency and broadcasting is working properly, though I believe they switched to 1K tones at some point. (I don't know if they even ever used 20K tones.) 20K is actually too high for a lot of people to hear, so maybe she was implying that it was some sort of brainwashing.
I agree that this song is about how brainwashed society has become because of the media and big companies. I also think "Well step back, look up, you'll see I'm dimming the sun But you won't will you? No, that's a good little one" is talking about how we're all taught to ignore certain things when they're not easily fixed - sort of like pretending the problem doesn't exist, e.g. the Bush Administration denying the fact that global warming exists.
The one part of this song that actually really confuses me is "And cancer the great teacher has been opening schools Down stream from every factory still, everywhere fools Are squinting into microscopes researching cells Trying to figure out a way that we can all live in hell"
It sounds as if she's talking about cancer in a good way, that stem cell research is getting us nowhere, but the entire verse may be sarcastic. I just don't think that describing people who are trying to find a cure for a horrible disease as fools is very fitting to her liberal perspective. Describing a world without cancer as "hell" seems completely over-the-top, which is one of the main reasons I think it might be sarcastic, though she doesn't sound particularly sarcastic.
Though this may just be her stating the first three lines from the perspective of those that believe stem-cell research is a waste of time, and then the fourth line is her jumping in to state her opinion on the situation.
Anyway, this song is amazing, though it's strikingly dark and creepy, especially "Never mind that the nanoseconds in between Are some of the darkest darkness that you've ever seen". The ominous and almost dream-like feel of this song is probably one of the reasons I love it as much as I do.