the most prominent aspect of this song is the consistent allusion to Francisco Goya's 'The Shootings of May Third in Madrid' (1814).
"Six men on their knees eye's shinin in the high beams of the searchlight. cop's shadows on the wall, several stories tall instilling such a fright. one's kicked in the gut, he's all cut up by the corner cop. One stands in defense in a broken sentence asks not to be shot."
"Arms thrown up in a ever fearful protest as the firing squad would ever think to notice. As if you could summon the likes of moses to put blood back in his friends veins."
these are apt descriptions of what is going on in the painting. also, "he wasn't begging..." is probably urmston's own interpretation of the painting and the most prominent figure in it.
the most prominent aspect of this song is the consistent allusion to Francisco Goya's 'The Shootings of May Third in Madrid' (1814).
"Six men on their knees eye's shinin in the high beams of the searchlight. cop's shadows on the wall, several stories tall instilling such a fright. one's kicked in the gut, he's all cut up by the corner cop. One stands in defense in a broken sentence asks not to be shot."
"Arms thrown up in a ever fearful protest as the firing squad would ever think to notice. As if you could summon the likes of moses to put blood back in his friends veins."
these are apt descriptions of what is going on in the painting. also, "he wasn't begging..." is probably urmston's own interpretation of the painting and the most prominent figure in it.
see it here: http://www.goyatobeijing.org/gallery/images/goya.jpg