Now We Can See Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MabeRuth 

Cover art for Now We Can See lyrics by Thermals, The

A history of imperialism?

My Interpretation

One way of interpretating this a the writer being a 'native' who cynically adopts the colonial attitude and 'now we can see' his group's wrong ways (there's a couple other references supporting this too). Of course, though, they realize in the end that their changed ways aren't necessarily better when they state 'We should need nothing, nothing at all!'

My first interpretation before I actually read the lyrics was about celebrating that there's a new US president and that the US 'can now see' again and change some of the policies that made the USA unpopular in the past...