This song is almost like a Radiohead song in that its pretty angsty, but cuts right to the point, even if it's through your heart. This is obliquely demonstrated in the accompanying music video. I think some songs on Room on Fire were trying to be 'political', at least in the songs 'You Talk Way Too Much', which is supposedly a back-and-forth during a presidential debate. The End Has No End exemplifies this. I'm sure the band felt at some point that they had to have some sort of 'political message' as a New York band to show that they really did care about things post-9/11, but I have the feeling Julian didn't like talking about these things, especially when he was younger. In the video there's a scene of Ryan Gentles (the band's manager and main protagonist in the video) scrolling through channels on TV, and then for a second you can see footage of the inmates being held at Guantanamo Bay. This song does have some streaks of politics but I wouldn't say it's the whole song, nor were The Strokes trying to make a political record like Radiohead was in 2003.
This song is almost like a Radiohead song in that its pretty angsty, but cuts right to the point, even if it's through your heart. This is obliquely demonstrated in the accompanying music video. I think some songs on Room on Fire were trying to be 'political', at least in the songs 'You Talk Way Too Much', which is supposedly a back-and-forth during a presidential debate. The End Has No End exemplifies this. I'm sure the band felt at some point that they had to have some sort of 'political message' as a New York band to show that they really did care about things post-9/11, but I have the feeling Julian didn't like talking about these things, especially when he was younger. In the video there's a scene of Ryan Gentles (the band's manager and main protagonist in the video) scrolling through channels on TV, and then for a second you can see footage of the inmates being held at Guantanamo Bay. This song does have some streaks of politics but I wouldn't say it's the whole song, nor were The Strokes trying to make a political record like Radiohead was in 2003.