"Education, Fornication, in you are, go." --- This is pretty straight-forward. He's referring to the school system, and the cultural force it wields. Children go to school every day, seven to eight hours a day; it is an enormous influence on their cultural development. The foundation of their ideas.
"Don't be late for school again boy/girl." ---Children are REQUIRED to go to school. By law. Not only is school a huge social-shaper for children and minors, but it is necessary. So kids are affected by school and its mainstream culture establishment, no ifs, ands, or buts. Those kids who go to Private or Home schools are a whole different can of worms.
"I think me, I want life; I think me, I want a house and a wife." ---This is also pretty straight-forward. It refers to the ideal that is instilled in children, through the culture they are in, via media, and most peer-influencing, at school. This ideal is: Get married, get comfortable, get a house, and get laid. A piece of the American Dream, so to speak. (SOAD talks about that particular issue quite often).
"I wanna shimmy through the break of dawn, yeah." ---Shimmy, meaning to have sex, methinks. I have found this very opinion to be common among SOAD Interpreters. This expresses the ever-prevalent desire among youths to "get laid", especially with a life-long partner, who is, of course, culturally necessary.
"Indoctrination of a nation" ---This is indicating that this ideal is especially deep in the cultural roots of our contemporary society. It is almost religion-like in its depth and unconsciousness.
So, basically I feel the song is condemning this particular aspect of mainstream culture and how it is spread unnoticed throughout generation to generation via school.
Shimmy doesn't mean to have sex, it means to get by.
The chorus just describes the American Dream.
"I want life, I want a house and a wife, I want to shimmy to the break of dawn..."
It's the basis of the American Dream, to have a nice house, nice wife, 2.5 children, a dog, and to just...get by in life, until life ends.
Shimmy doesn't mean to have sex, it means to get by.
The chorus just describes the American Dream.
"I want life, I want a house and a wife, I want to shimmy to the break of dawn..."
It's the basis of the American Dream, to have a nice house, nice wife, 2.5 children, a dog, and to just...get by in life, until life ends.
@KosmicStorm I think you're at least mostly right. I know you wrote this 7 years ago. But I interpret "shimmy to the break of dawn" as describing how you're going to work your ass off "to the break of dawn" in order to get that "house and a wife".
@KosmicStorm I think you're at least mostly right. I know you wrote this 7 years ago. But I interpret "shimmy to the break of dawn" as describing how you're going to work your ass off "to the break of dawn" in order to get that "house and a wife".
"Education, Fornication, in you are, go." --- This is pretty straight-forward. He's referring to the school system, and the cultural force it wields. Children go to school every day, seven to eight hours a day; it is an enormous influence on their cultural development. The foundation of their ideas.
"Don't be late for school again boy/girl." ---Children are REQUIRED to go to school. By law. Not only is school a huge social-shaper for children and minors, but it is necessary. So kids are affected by school and its mainstream culture establishment, no ifs, ands, or buts. Those kids who go to Private or Home schools are a whole different can of worms.
"I think me, I want life; I think me, I want a house and a wife." ---This is also pretty straight-forward. It refers to the ideal that is instilled in children, through the culture they are in, via media, and most peer-influencing, at school. This ideal is: Get married, get comfortable, get a house, and get laid. A piece of the American Dream, so to speak. (SOAD talks about that particular issue quite often).
"I wanna shimmy through the break of dawn, yeah." ---Shimmy, meaning to have sex, methinks. I have found this very opinion to be common among SOAD Interpreters. This expresses the ever-prevalent desire among youths to "get laid", especially with a life-long partner, who is, of course, culturally necessary.
"Indoctrination of a nation" ---This is indicating that this ideal is especially deep in the cultural roots of our contemporary society. It is almost religion-like in its depth and unconsciousness.
So, basically I feel the song is condemning this particular aspect of mainstream culture and how it is spread unnoticed throughout generation to generation via school.
Shimmy doesn't mean to have sex, it means to get by. The chorus just describes the American Dream. "I want life, I want a house and a wife, I want to shimmy to the break of dawn..." It's the basis of the American Dream, to have a nice house, nice wife, 2.5 children, a dog, and to just...get by in life, until life ends.
Shimmy doesn't mean to have sex, it means to get by. The chorus just describes the American Dream. "I want life, I want a house and a wife, I want to shimmy to the break of dawn..." It's the basis of the American Dream, to have a nice house, nice wife, 2.5 children, a dog, and to just...get by in life, until life ends.
@KosmicStorm I think you're at least mostly right. I know you wrote this 7 years ago. But I interpret "shimmy to the break of dawn" as describing how you're going to work your ass off "to the break of dawn" in order to get that "house and a wife".
@KosmicStorm I think you're at least mostly right. I know you wrote this 7 years ago. But I interpret "shimmy to the break of dawn" as describing how you're going to work your ass off "to the break of dawn" in order to get that "house and a wife".