Desmond "The Human Zoo" 2. DesCartes - "Ad Homine" 3. Hobbes "Leviathan"
What I take from it is really the literal meaning of the chorus "I can't deny it. But I won't say anything, unless you ask it right" -- Everything referenced in the song is linked to some form of existence, whether it be animal, the symbolic machine with or without a soul (living or living ghost) or a monster such as The Leviathan. None of these levels of existence are able to be communicated without human intervention and interpretation. So, " I can't deny it. I won't say anything. " literally means the subject cannot speak. And I think the song is about programming and non-existence without cues to act, by a trainer or authority role etc.... "Unless you ask it right" could be a mindless question or could be as simple as a dog only knowing "to sit, roll over" after it is communicated by a master. Or in the case of a monster, "And then he screamed" - Showing it knows only that and asking it a question is just ironically behaving like the master has trained by using language. "Bribed the grim proprietor with milk and tangerines" - A middle ground understanding/offering of goods that are obvious to any level of thing that eats or symbolically (Mothers milk to Paradise) as that line is definitely a human funeral scene "righteous limousine" ---- just my takE.
Desmond "The Human Zoo" 2. DesCartes - "Ad Homine" 3. Hobbes "Leviathan"
What I take from it is really the literal meaning of the chorus "I can't deny it. But I won't say anything, unless you ask it right" -- Everything referenced in the song is linked to some form of existence, whether it be animal, the symbolic machine with or without a soul (living or living ghost) or a monster such as The Leviathan. None of these levels of existence are able to be communicated without human intervention and interpretation. So, " I can't deny it. I won't say anything. " literally means the subject cannot speak. And I think the song is about programming and non-existence without cues to act, by a trainer or authority role etc.... "Unless you ask it right" could be a mindless question or could be as simple as a dog only knowing "to sit, roll over" after it is communicated by a master. Or in the case of a monster, "And then he screamed" - Showing it knows only that and asking it a question is just ironically behaving like the master has trained by using language. "Bribed the grim proprietor with milk and tangerines" - A middle ground understanding/offering of goods that are obvious to any level of thing that eats or symbolically (Mothers milk to Paradise) as that line is definitely a human funeral scene "righteous limousine" ---- just my takE.