The beginning of the concept album is this Corporate Head overlooking all his 'ants': the common man of the world. From high above, humans look like busy ants, scurrying around - never truly talking to one another; all to get the job done. We seek to please those with power (the 'queen ant') to get the things we want (the tan, the fuck, the promotion). The 3rd stanza voices the questioning of 'if the queen cannot save us, will all our material goods?'
Interestingly, as an introduction, the song foreshadows the Corporate Head's death (Comes stomping down on you at once/Like a bullet to the brain. -> See Harry Frazee and For a Dreamer). And obviously there is some pretty awesome ant/human analogies throughout this song ('carry 10 their weight');
Art: I'm thinking about scanning the picture, but the inside pamphlet includes a picture of a silhouette on top of a building with more shadows climbing up like ants.
zoobe_40 and Rosea pretty much summed it up:
The beginning of the concept album is this Corporate Head overlooking all his 'ants': the common man of the world. From high above, humans look like busy ants, scurrying around - never truly talking to one another; all to get the job done. We seek to please those with power (the 'queen ant') to get the things we want (the tan, the fuck, the promotion). The 3rd stanza voices the questioning of 'if the queen cannot save us, will all our material goods?'
Interestingly, as an introduction, the song foreshadows the Corporate Head's death (Comes stomping down on you at once/Like a bullet to the brain. -> See Harry Frazee and For a Dreamer). And obviously there is some pretty awesome ant/human analogies throughout this song ('carry 10 their weight');
Art: I'm thinking about scanning the picture, but the inside pamphlet includes a picture of a silhouette on top of a building with more shadows climbing up like ants.
Oh and if you have seen Waking Life and/or Pi, you'd understand the ants.
Oh and if you have seen Waking Life and/or Pi, you'd understand the ants.