| Arcade Fire – Intervention Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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With the Butler brothers' Mormon background, the album being named "Neon Bible" and recorded in a church, and the "church"-references that feature in this song in particular, I wouldn't call Arcade Fire a non-religious band. Their stance towards religion seems ambivalent - sometimes they seem to praise spiritual themes, sometimes they appear to be criticising religious dogmas. I'd say this song is an example of the latter. To me, the song seems to tell the tale of a very stubborn believer who refuses to keep in tune with his environment ("Been working for the church / While your life falls apart, / Singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart") and therefore loses touch with reality - and thus, himself. He groans "we'll go at it alone"; the "we" here seems to me to be some kind of schizophrenic element. He doesn't know himself thoroughly, but keeps his problems inside and chooses to go on with his dogmatic faith in spite of the others. Perhaps "intervention" is what is needed in his case? Thoughts, thoughts. |
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| Bauhaus – The Three Shadows, Pt. 2 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I can't escape the thought of this having a religious undertone either. The "fish" may also refer to Jesus, and the gentlemen pointing their fishes fits my image of religious figureheads who waive their rod of morale. With this in mind, I see the song as displaying some anthropocentric qualities: the faces of God/Jesus/religion in general is everchanging with time ("the rat race begins") whereas man is constant (the "I will always exist" part) However, I'd like to see some thoughts on how this relates to the other parts of the The Three Shadows-piece? |
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