The title of the song is taken from the book "King Leopold's Ghost". To give some context, Leopold was a Belgian king who enslaved African people of the Congo for slave labour in the rubber industry - and the practice of cutting off hands and throwing them in the river. The book ties up with a chilling description of how Leopold's ghost still haunts our modern world... in government buildings and police stations.
I assume Menuck is relating this concept of the looming presence of long-gone tyrants to the inescapable tyranny of the modern day.
The title of the song is taken from the book "King Leopold's Ghost". To give some context, Leopold was a Belgian king who enslaved African people of the Congo for slave labour in the rubber industry - and the practice of cutting off hands and throwing them in the river. The book ties up with a chilling description of how Leopold's ghost still haunts our modern world... in government buildings and police stations. I assume Menuck is relating this concept of the looming presence of long-gone tyrants to the inescapable tyranny of the modern day.