You forget: these lyrics were written @ the height of the vietnam war.
To me: its about man manufactured disasters & how our american 'dreams' support them.
The lady with the redwhiteblue wears her patriotism like a hairdo, lives it like a 'dream', which would be shattered could she hear the children screaming- our sons, shipped oversea, trained to carpetbomb & machinegun; the innocent women, children they murder: what once was beautiful is now: bones, ashes, bones, ashes, bones. We murder them for their past beliefs, the religious & political & cultural thought that jerrymandered the world into nation-states, majorities & minorities
The "all got together... out of shameful grief" lines are so poignant, cynical, sad: the power, knowledge, wealth, imagination of our nation, not used for good orbeauty, is instead harnessed to manufacture grandiose machines of death, to pollute our land with cancer & filth, to incarcerate & ghettoize & benumb.
But beef<3 left the particulars vauge on purpose: humanity will always be at war with itself, will always harness its shame and grief as a community, and only love in private. Saddest lyrics ever.
You forget: these lyrics were written @ the height of the vietnam war.
To me: its about man manufactured disasters & how our american 'dreams' support them. The lady with the redwhiteblue wears her patriotism like a hairdo, lives it like a 'dream', which would be shattered could she hear the children screaming- our sons, shipped oversea, trained to carpetbomb & machinegun; the innocent women, children they murder: what once was beautiful is now: bones, ashes, bones, ashes, bones. We murder them for their past beliefs, the religious & political & cultural thought that jerrymandered the world into nation-states, majorities & minorities
The "all got together... out of shameful grief" lines are so poignant, cynical, sad: the power, knowledge, wealth, imagination of our nation, not used for good orbeauty, is instead harnessed to manufacture grandiose machines of death, to pollute our land with cancer & filth, to incarcerate & ghettoize & benumb.
But beef<3 left the particulars vauge on purpose: humanity will always be at war with itself, will always harness its shame and grief as a community, and only love in private. Saddest lyrics ever.