So is a pretty dark interpretation but it fits so well i think it may be on the money...
I think it is about the rounding up and shipping out of Jewish and the other 'unwanted' through out Nazi occupied France during WW2, now before you write me off as crazy, please just read through and it'll make total sense. Watch the deportation scene at the start of Sarah's Key and you'll get it straight away. The upbeat style is in juxtaposition to the meaning, but if you listen to the acoustic set, it is pretty mournful.
there are people who are pushing me on the train - (Rounding up people and forcing them onto the trains taking them off to the camps)
screaming from the top of buildings
"youre gonna get whats coming" - (Due to the propaganda that was running, there were many who were happy to see these people getting shipped off)
and i dont know how to react
or if i should fight back - (people were stunned and often didn't try to resist, the hate and the vitriol thrown their way by people who had been their neighbors)
he could have a knife
stab me in the gut
bleeding on the floor
shoulda kept my mouth shut (I think this is either in the ghetto's/camps or even with guards on the train)
i dont need a number (the number being a reference to the tattoo numbers that the they put on all inmates)
i just wanna dance with my shirt off (freedom)
and of course "Ice Cream is going to Save the Day" and you're thinking how could this relate... but it would also be something the American soldiers could have used to try and nourish the severely malnourished survivors when they liberated the camps being both full of fats and easily digested - and so it would have saved the day.
So is a pretty dark interpretation but it fits so well i think it may be on the money...
I think it is about the rounding up and shipping out of Jewish and the other 'unwanted' through out Nazi occupied France during WW2, now before you write me off as crazy, please just read through and it'll make total sense. Watch the deportation scene at the start of Sarah's Key and you'll get it straight away. The upbeat style is in juxtaposition to the meaning, but if you listen to the acoustic set, it is pretty mournful.
there are people who are pushing me on the train - (Rounding up people and forcing them onto the trains taking them off to the camps) screaming from the top of buildings "youre gonna get whats coming" - (Due to the propaganda that was running, there were many who were happy to see these people getting shipped off) and i dont know how to react or if i should fight back - (people were stunned and often didn't try to resist, the hate and the vitriol thrown their way by people who had been their neighbors)
he could have a knife stab me in the gut bleeding on the floor shoulda kept my mouth shut (I think this is either in the ghetto's/camps or even with guards on the train)
i dont need a number (the number being a reference to the tattoo numbers that the they put on all inmates) i just wanna dance with my shirt off (freedom)
and of course "Ice Cream is going to Save the Day" and you're thinking how could this relate... but it would also be something the American soldiers could have used to try and nourish the severely malnourished survivors when they liberated the camps being both full of fats and easily digested - and so it would have saved the day.