Well, starts with Bon Iver song "woods"-very good by the way.
Then Kanye's part is talking about someone who is his absolute everything.
Gil-Scott Heron verse is a bit more complicated to me but here is my take on it...
"People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel because God's whole card has been thoroughly piqued. "
-first he is saying how everyone has turned their back on religion and resented god.
"The youngsters who were programmed to continue fucking up woke up one night digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys."
~Nat Turner was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia
-So, one night the younger generation (us I am guessing) woke up and realized, the "bad" guys weren't so bad after all
"We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal." "America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes"
-Truth started coming out, and not everyone was prepared.
"Two long centuries buried in the musty vault, hosed down daily with a gagging perfume. "
-Truth came out after 200 years of being covered up badly. Like a place that stinks trying to cover it up in bad perfume. We all now know about world war 1, 2, civil wars, ect etc.
"America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter of the mother country whose legs were then spread around the world"
-America is basically the daughter of Great Britain, who at the time had all the power in the world.
"Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names that preceded the bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling in the mother country's crotch."
-Lol, weird visual. What came out of the "mother" was democracy, liberty, and justice=america.
"What does Websters say about soul?"
-The dictionary defines words, but it surely doesn't "Define" them, such as looking up soul or the meanings of "life" on it does nothing.
Well, starts with Bon Iver song "woods"-very good by the way. Then Kanye's part is talking about someone who is his absolute everything. Gil-Scott Heron verse is a bit more complicated to me but here is my take on it...
"People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel because God's whole card has been thoroughly piqued. " -first he is saying how everyone has turned their back on religion and resented god.
"The youngsters who were programmed to continue fucking up woke up one night digging Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys." ~Nat Turner was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia -So, one night the younger generation (us I am guessing) woke up and realized, the "bad" guys weren't so bad after all
"We learned to our amazement untold tale of scandal." "America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes" -Truth started coming out, and not everyone was prepared.
"Two long centuries buried in the musty vault, hosed down daily with a gagging perfume. " -Truth came out after 200 years of being covered up badly. Like a place that stinks trying to cover it up in bad perfume. We all now know about world war 1, 2, civil wars, ect etc.
"America was a bastard the illegitimate daughter of the mother country whose legs were then spread around the world" -America is basically the daughter of Great Britain, who at the time had all the power in the world.
"Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names that preceded the bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling in the mother country's crotch." -Lol, weird visual. What came out of the "mother" was democracy, liberty, and justice=america.
"What does Websters say about soul?" -The dictionary defines words, but it surely doesn't "Define" them, such as looking up soul or the meanings of "life" on it does nothing.