Although the songs on this album seem to have multiple layers of meaning, I think that this song delves into some of the feelings and patterns that make people more susceptible to brainwashing. The backdrop of Jonestown plays on many of these tracks, except with Abducted, maybe others, but it does particularly here, I think.
I think that the entire album can be viewed somewhat as an exploration of those thoughts and feelings of people who are or are about to be involved in a mind-controlling cult like Peoples Temple: Boredom, searching for a new name, a new life, a new set of rules, etc., are all signals that the narrator is ripe for the picking.
The most wonderful artistic stroke of this album is how they layer themes like cultish manipulation and abduction right over top of good old fashioned love! Like that the narrator in the song Abducted loves so hard it's as if he/she has been abducted. Or songs like this one, or You Know What I Mean, a song I can't help but imagine Christine Miller singing, as she's courageously trying to argue for the survival of all those people whom she saw as deserving to continue living.
If you don't know what I mean, google "christine miller jonestown". Then listen to You Know What I Mean, and then you will know what I mean.
Although the songs on this album seem to have multiple layers of meaning, I think that this song delves into some of the feelings and patterns that make people more susceptible to brainwashing. The backdrop of Jonestown plays on many of these tracks, except with Abducted, maybe others, but it does particularly here, I think.
I think that the entire album can be viewed somewhat as an exploration of those thoughts and feelings of people who are or are about to be involved in a mind-controlling cult like Peoples Temple: Boredom, searching for a new name, a new life, a new set of rules, etc., are all signals that the narrator is ripe for the picking.
The most wonderful artistic stroke of this album is how they layer themes like cultish manipulation and abduction right over top of good old fashioned love! Like that the narrator in the song Abducted loves so hard it's as if he/she has been abducted. Or songs like this one, or You Know What I Mean, a song I can't help but imagine Christine Miller singing, as she's courageously trying to argue for the survival of all those people whom she saw as deserving to continue living.
If you don't know what I mean, google "christine miller jonestown". Then listen to You Know What I Mean, and then you will know what I mean.