Each version is darkly delicious in their own way.
Depeche Mode’s version speaks about pulling back the layers of the ‘self’, stripping away the metaphysical layers of the world until only the basest, most carnal elements exist. A kind of returm to Eden in a sense.
The Rammstein version speaks if stripping away materialism, discarding the need or desire of ‘stuff’ in order to find and belong in a world realised by commonality and love of fellow man.
The Shiny Toy Guns version speaks of stripping away boundaries such as race and status. It seeks to promote more of a unity amongst all man, and tries to teach equality by stripping down the boundaries society and status have backed us into.
In essence, this song is a perfect exhibit on how the same words can have incredibly different meanings.
Each version is darkly delicious in their own way.
Depeche Mode’s version speaks about pulling back the layers of the ‘self’, stripping away the metaphysical layers of the world until only the basest, most carnal elements exist. A kind of returm to Eden in a sense.
The Rammstein version speaks if stripping away materialism, discarding the need or desire of ‘stuff’ in order to find and belong in a world realised by commonality and love of fellow man.
The Shiny Toy Guns version speaks of stripping away boundaries such as race and status. It seeks to promote more of a unity amongst all man, and tries to teach equality by stripping down the boundaries society and status have backed us into.
In essence, this song is a perfect exhibit on how the same words can have incredibly different meanings.