As with most works of lyrical genius, it is multilayered in meaning. This song fascinates me. I speculate this is an allegory of domestic violence and the human condition to dominate or be dominated, and from the lyrics "against the west" & "sack the maid - for dealing in state propaganda", I discern it is representing a commentary of the situation of the national politic either: socialist/radical leftist sympathy of the \'lazy lover\' in a loveless marriage, or the opposite in political terms, such as the post-communist break-up of Russia (there is infact an Eastern European feel to the song), or maybe the crushing of Saddam\'s tin-pot dictatorship in Iraq, for which the lyric at the end "a Jewish prince is on a hill" is part\'ly interesting. The maid (the State) is in chains and is resigned to being subjugated by the powerful vested interests of the dominant partner of fully-liberated, unrestrained capitalism (although would get knocked about by any common lover - any other alternative \'actor\' - such is the human condition). The declaration is made that the maid (the state) should be sacked and stripped away for "dealing in state propaganda". The state must be stripped away to avail the constant exigency of unbridled capitalist encroachment to tap into the assets of the state (for eg. in the UK, the NHS)
As with most works of lyrical genius, it is multilayered in meaning. This song fascinates me. I speculate this is an allegory of domestic violence and the human condition to dominate or be dominated, and from the lyrics "against the west" & "sack the maid - for dealing in state propaganda", I discern it is representing a commentary of the situation of the national politic either: socialist/radical leftist sympathy of the \'lazy lover\' in a loveless marriage, or the opposite in political terms, such as the post-communist break-up of Russia (there is infact an Eastern European feel to the song), or maybe the crushing of Saddam\'s tin-pot dictatorship in Iraq, for which the lyric at the end "a Jewish prince is on a hill" is part\'ly interesting. The maid (the State) is in chains and is resigned to being subjugated by the powerful vested interests of the dominant partner of fully-liberated, unrestrained capitalism (although would get knocked about by any common lover - any other alternative \'actor\' - such is the human condition). The declaration is made that the maid (the state) should be sacked and stripped away for "dealing in state propaganda". The state must be stripped away to avail the constant exigency of unbridled capitalist encroachment to tap into the assets of the state (for eg. in the UK, the NHS)