This popped up in my iTunes the other day, and I was brought back a decade ago to when I was really into BSP. So I checked out the video for this on YouTube, and it all kind of makes sense.
This song is very interesting as it was written back in 2001, but remains even more topical in modern day UK.
I'd say (and the music video appears to confirm as much) that this is about the fetishing of military remembrance in UK society, especially regarding World War I - hence the "Remember Me" chorus
The following verse sums it up:
"Did half of you pass away
What about the other half
Yeah what about the other half
Whatever!"
This refers to the young men who went to the front line in WWI - "Did half of you pass away?" And the contempt that was shown to them by the British ruling class at the time, "what about the other half? Whatever!"
Indeed, this is backed up by the following two lines, regarding the contempt of the ruling class in the UK:
"We're all part of the same old bloody regime
With someone taking it out whilst you were putting it in"
My take on the repetition of the lines "Increment by increment" is that they also refer to WWI, and in particular the trench warfare aspect of the conflict, whereby battle lines would inch forward into enemy territory at an infinitesimally slow pace.
This popped up in my iTunes the other day, and I was brought back a decade ago to when I was really into BSP. So I checked out the video for this on YouTube, and it all kind of makes sense.
This song is very interesting as it was written back in 2001, but remains even more topical in modern day UK.
I'd say (and the music video appears to confirm as much) that this is about the fetishing of military remembrance in UK society, especially regarding World War I - hence the "Remember Me" chorus
The following verse sums it up:
"Did half of you pass away What about the other half Yeah what about the other half Whatever!"
This refers to the young men who went to the front line in WWI - "Did half of you pass away?" And the contempt that was shown to them by the British ruling class at the time, "what about the other half? Whatever!"
Indeed, this is backed up by the following two lines, regarding the contempt of the ruling class in the UK:
"We're all part of the same old bloody regime With someone taking it out whilst you were putting it in"
My take on the repetition of the lines "Increment by increment" is that they also refer to WWI, and in particular the trench warfare aspect of the conflict, whereby battle lines would inch forward into enemy territory at an infinitesimally slow pace.