Here is a picture of me walking home in the early morning after the LOA concert and frolicking with the stripper.
Posted on 02/12/2014 7:50:22 AM PST by Lazamataz
And consider these lyrics, with my notes in red:
| I believe I can see the future | (easier when you have none) |
| Cause I repeat the same routine | (in a fascist dictatorship, you no longer have choices) |
| I think I used to have a purpose | |
| But then again That might have been a dream | (as our memories of Old America dwindle, it will seem like a dream long ago dreamt) |
| I think I used to have a voice | (we will soon be in a place where we USED to be able to speak freely) |
| Now I never make a sound | (you will not be able to speak freely, lest you be noticed) |
| I just do what I've been told | (like a compliant sheep) |
| I really don't want them to come around Oh, no | (Them: The IRS, EPA, DHS, FBI, TSA, VIPR, and a dozen other agencies) |
| [Chorus:] Every day is exactly the same | (think of the monotony of the Soviet Union) |
| Every day is exactly the same | |
| There is no love here and there is no pain | (no love except what the state declares is allowable, no pain may be spoken of) |
| Every day is exactly the same | |
| I can feel their eyes are watching | (The NSA tracks your every communication. Drones watch your every movement) |
| In case I lose myself again | (do not LOSE YOURSELF, citizen. Be compliant to the State) |
| Sometimes I think I'm happy here | (we will delude ourselves into accepting the new Communist, Fascist state) |
| Sometimes, yet I still pretend | |
| I can't remember how this got started | (I sure can. I've been yelling about this since 1993) |
| But I can tell you exactly how it will end | (So can I. Death camps. Summary executions. Repression of political speech. Exile to re-education camps. Planned starvation.) |
It was dark, and there was alot of screaming (mostly from me).
Holy smokes! TMI! ...at least you didn't say pets and relatives.....sheesh!
Dylan has mused on the Fascist tendencies in all governments for 50 years.
Think of:
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,
It’s Alright Ma, or
Desolation Row (below)
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row.
At midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row.
I forgot the side of mutton I'm thawing.
Come for dinner?
OK hold the phone...We’re talking about a Bi dude and you say “Take me?”
Why Laz, I didn’t think you thought of me...you know...in that way!
HA! ‘)
Seriously though, I know some start batting for the other team without drugs, but man, how hollow inside does one have to be to not find ‘whatever’ in the entire realm he lived in. He literally had and HAS everything he cold want in unlimited quantity.
And as an aside, the Religion argument I don’t consider since he’s not exactly a church friendly dude. If he was looking for God, I doubt he’d find him in a dudes...parts.
With a stripper from an LOA show...
It could be no other way ;)
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Talk about a double entrende.....
I am a huge Rammstein fan and on first hearing their “Amerika” was pretty pissed. But then I thought about it.
Refrain:
We’re all living in America,
America is wunderbar.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
When I’m dancing, I want to lead,
even if you all are spinning alone,
let’s exercise a little control.
I’ll show you how it’s done right.
We form a nice round (circle),
freedom is playing on all the fiddles,
music is coming out of the White House,
and near Paris stands Mickey Mouse.
We’re all living in America...
I know steps that are very useful,
and I’ll protect you from missteps,
and anyone who doesn’t want to dance in the end,
just doesn’t know that he has to dance!
We form a nice round (circle),
I’ll show you the right direction,
to Africa goes Santa Claus,
and near Paris stands Mickey Mouse.
We’re all living in America,
America is wunderbar.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
We’re all living in America,
Coca-Cola, Wonderbra,
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
This is not a love song,
this is not a love song.
I don’t sing my mother tongue,
No, this is not a love song.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika is wunderbar.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
We’re all living in America,
Coca-Cola, sometimes WAR,
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
Here is a picture of me walking home in the early morning after the LOA concert and frolicking with the stripper.
The Who were way ahead of them.
Dad? DADDY!!!!!
I missed you so! I’ll freepmail you all my contact info so we can catch up!!!
;)
>>What is interesting to me is that many of the Industrial and even standard punk groups nailed it. The only thin was they thought the great Satan was the political right.
Spot on. I’d love to have a political conversation with the remaining members of The Clash, for instance.
When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row
Industrial or nothin', baby.
>>If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
I think TM has a great image of that. I can’t find it.
Short version:
I used to work with a young Jewish guy that was a punk dude. He was VERY intelligent but Leftist as they come. Why? He simply grew up in it, had been indoctrinated and never heard the other side of the story. We had many deep political discussions.
I didn’t completely turn him, but he is no longer the unflinching leftist. He became, dare I say it, almost right of center. One of the things I did was compare the lyrics of many of his favorite leftist punk bands to the reality of democrat governance.
To say his eyes got wide is an understatement.
You’ve got to find one who is smart enough to think for himself and overcome early conditioning. Harder than it sounds.
That’s something that has bothered me forever; that punk in its essence is so very libertarian, but it’s followers, and even the bands themselves are a bunch of lefties. I mean you’ve got the whole movement born of the trash strike and council housing life and all that but they all railed against Thatcher as if it were all her creation and not the Labour party that had been in control for 3 decades or more. Maybe that’s why they wore chains and dog collars; they secretly feared independence...hmm...
Some day when the kids are grown up maybe I’ll write a book about it, if no one else has at that point.
Well you’ll have no shortage of material to work with. Look up the Synth Britainia documentary. Excelent doc, but one of the Heaven 17 goys and Cabaret Voltaire dudes goes into the evils of Thatcher. Actually it’s hit on several times throughout.
I have actually looked into this whole thing quite a bit as I’m a hobbyist musician. It really comes down to the communist goals of 63 and marxism in the larger sense/how it operates. Movements/popular whatever were infiltrated and ‘directed’. People didn’t see politics in music like today even when it was in their face. But more importantly they didn’t see behind it either. Because they just wanted to be entertained.
The irony is that most punks were so manipulated they cannot admit it without their entire life’s beliefs being crushed. Their entire being would be a lie.
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