| Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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To me this song reflects the realizations many outsiders face when they become adults and have to take responsibilites for their lives, afterall. They realize that the decisions they've made in their youths haven't been the wisest ones, e.g. not taking school seriously, not connecting with the rest of school mates, feeling different. Not obeying to authority or distrusting it, at least. They are in a form rebels and don't want to compromise, they don't believe society and its norms does them any good. There is a gap between them and the rest they feel very strongly. (it doesn't matter how you act that knowledge out, whether you're a punk or a lonely outsider) Those people thus decide for ''the policy of truth'', deciding for their own way of living instead of the one prescribed by society and norms. I think those people often have the hope that things may be different once they're adults, that the world is going to be more like they want it to be. But once they become adults they realize that the way they've decided in early years may have been wrong, that it causes troubles now that they really need to take their lives into their own hands, that they can't go on their whole life living in their bubbles, that the world hasn't changed afterall, that it's still the same principles ruling your life. Life is about compromising afterall. And it's a bitter realization. Cracks start to appear and insecurities start to surface especially if they see other people they may have visited school with leading successful lives. They start feeling like massive failures and start questioning the meaning of life. To me, Policy of Truth deals with the hardships of being an outcast or an individual who tries to fit in and be responsible for his/her own life. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – O Children Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think Cave is rather using the ''cleaners'', ''gulags'', etc. as metaphors. Horrible things happening to children (imposed ideologies, violence, etc.) and then in puberty, adolescence the cleaners come in form of teachers, etc. who don't care for what has happened to them, they wipe off their backgrounds and urge them to become a functional part of society. I think the gulags may be a reference to work - you work yourself off in order to survive even though you may still suffer from what has happened to you. But no one gives a shit because your only function is to work. I think this is a song of strong empathy. An excuse for what adults do to children because they pretend to know what life's about even though they suffer horribly, too. ''It's round about, it's somewhere here'' indicates that they cannot name the secret to lead a successful life. The train may be a metaphor for our dreams, we're getting lost in them yet they often don't leave the station, they remain in our heads. Our life is as bitter as ever, just with a nicer world to escape to mentally. ''The process of elimination'' may be the process of getting rid of hope because the last two lines say ''Hey little train! Don't wait for me// Once I was blind but now I see'' which indicates that the protagonist of the song realizes that life simply is bitter and painful and there's no way of changing that. He/she is finally coming to terms with his/her destiny. |
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