Broadcast – America's Boy

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Quaker toil & texan oil
Rockets on we're arm in arm
Nasa nude you're manly you

Oi american soldier
America's boy

Gun me down with yankee power
Cock pit tom with army charm
The eagle lands army commands

Oi american soldier
America's boy

Cowboy corn & bugle horn
{on son don't post me on?}
You are dean and me the queen

Oi american soldier
America's boy

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    General Comment:found this on bleep.com, from Trish Keenan:
    The lyrics to 'America's Boy' were generated by my reactions to a tabloid cryptic crossword. The clues were topically about the war in Iraq, and in general, their stance was one of anti-American occupation. In my frustration at not being able to decipher the clues, I began to react to them, make up my own answers, mimicking back the language of the clues. I was interested then in possible answers. I got on a roll arguing with the clues, asking questions back, taking offence to them and deliberately misreading them. What came back was a sort of celebration of the American soldier. Snap shots of the heroics of American Imperialism, the all out impressiveness of its big achievements. Also something that the British do not have in their culture, a self celebratory nature of Americans towards their own country. The lyrics of Tender Buttons were generated through automatic writing. They are my free falling thoughts. I believe that words have their own life. That if you throw words together randomly, they naturally make sense. Language just wants to be understood.
    Flag Nirgeon April 12, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Sommy is right, this song is not anti-american in the least. Pigheaded kids just want to draw the must dull and simple conclusion that america = satan or some bull. If anything it sounds like USA/Foreign relations, ala 'you are dean and me the queen'. Albeit most Broadcast lyrics are more like wallpaper to make the song more beautiful and give it aesthetic depth.
    Flag Schizimaon October 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i see this song as being a big fuck you to america's army, and how it's political system is like a giant testosterone-driven war party. soldiers are tough, so what?
    Flag pinkpinkon March 08, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I guess it could be about an American boy charming some european gal or something like that. But really all i see are a bunch of loose descriptions of the USA.

    The line ''you are dean and me the queen'' is the only thing that strays out of that, since America doesn't have a monarchy it's the only line that could be in reference to something outside of the USA.

    Plus the line ''gun me down with yankee power''

    I don't know seems like a girl who is smitten with an american boy.
    Flag The_Variableon February 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Am I the only person who believes the lyrical sentiment toward America in this song is fairly ambivalent? There's really nothing here to make me believe it's supposed to be anti-American, even if that is all the rage these days. Trish is a smarter lyricist than that.
    Flag sommyon November 25, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:it is interesting that the broadcast song that has the most obvious meaning also has the most comments. one might think the songs more open to creative interpretation would make for more interesting discussion.
    Flag swla05ion July 08, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I like how they don't seem to be bitter about anything, if it is a political statement, they sound really detatched and spacey. Love how the drum beat keeps the song along.
    Flag imab&sbookwormon May 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:yeah, definitely an anti-bush song.
    catchy!
    Flag PrichardDJamson March 06, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:It's not a mockery of America or Americans as a whole...It's a satire of the current Bush administration (references to cowboy corn and "America's boy" = Dubya) policy towards war(American soldier, gun and rocket references), specifically the war in Iraq (hence the references to oil).
    Flag librarianclerkon December 11, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:"Oy vey", what a mess the American way is?
    Flag librarianclerkon December 11, 2006   Link

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