I think I sort of got imprinted by this song when I was a kid; first heard it as a teenager.
It's one thing to say that this song is "true", but another to look at a particular detail: It's Frank, telling us that people who can see the spiritual impoverishment of America--the out-of-control "work ethic", the despoiling of nature, the ever-increasing gulf between our glorious self-mytholization and the bleak reality of our march toward social/political stupidity and the ensuing dystopia; all of it--that those people are basically mutants. From whence cometh their X-ray vision? Is it just a DNA anomaly?
I think I sort of got imprinted by this song when I was a kid; first heard it as a teenager.
It's one thing to say that this song is "true", but another to look at a particular detail: It's Frank, telling us that people who can see the spiritual impoverishment of America--the out-of-control "work ethic", the despoiling of nature, the ever-increasing gulf between our glorious self-mytholization and the bleak reality of our march toward social/political stupidity and the ensuing dystopia; all of it--that those people are basically mutants. From whence cometh their X-ray vision? Is it just a DNA anomaly?
We're FREAKS, and we're hungry... for TRUTH.