This song is essentially "Go Hippie 2". FOW made fun of hippies in "Go Hippie" off their previous album. "Peace and Love" carries on that theme, this time shifting the narrative to first-person.
It captures the ignorant smugness ("Got crazy karma, never harmed a single soul"), the stuck-in-the-past aesthetic ("trying to learn the chords to 'Just the Way You Are'), the obliviousness of living in a self-made little so-called utopian bubble ("Plane crash flashing on my TV" -- but he doesn't care because everything is all rainbows and sunshine in HIS world), and the pseudo-deep-but-actually-shallow New Age ponderings ("We are one with the Universe" becomes just a meaningless catch-phrase with this type of person).
This song is essentially "Go Hippie 2". FOW made fun of hippies in "Go Hippie" off their previous album. "Peace and Love" carries on that theme, this time shifting the narrative to first-person.
It captures the ignorant smugness ("Got crazy karma, never harmed a single soul"), the stuck-in-the-past aesthetic ("trying to learn the chords to 'Just the Way You Are'), the obliviousness of living in a self-made little so-called utopian bubble ("Plane crash flashing on my TV" -- but he doesn't care because everything is all rainbows and sunshine in HIS world), and the pseudo-deep-but-actually-shallow New Age ponderings ("We are one with the Universe" becomes just a meaningless catch-phrase with this type of person).
FOW sure knows how to skewer a target.