Should be 'foreman presides over me,' not 'for a man'. "Losing my self respect for a man who presides over me" doesn't make any sense. A foreman is the working man's equivalent of an office supervisor or something.
This song is a blue collar anthem about struggling to make ends meet in a hostile and shitty work environment, not racism. It was allegedly inspired by D. Boon's racist boss calling music on a jazz radio station "nigger shit." But that's just what some college kid hipster wrote in a book longer after Boon got killed in a car accident. Hell of a story, but who knows if that actually happened?
Should be 'foreman presides over me,' not 'for a man'. "Losing my self respect for a man who presides over me" doesn't make any sense. A foreman is the working man's equivalent of an office supervisor or something.
This song is a blue collar anthem about struggling to make ends meet in a hostile and shitty work environment, not racism. It was allegedly inspired by D. Boon's racist boss calling music on a jazz radio station "nigger shit." But that's just what some college kid hipster wrote in a book longer after Boon got killed in a car accident. Hell of a story, but who knows if that actually happened?
Stay skeptic, fuck the man.