This song is filled with double meanings, which is only appropriate because it functions just as well as a religious commentary (along the lines of: society is so that if Jesus came back we'd probably kill him again, and the ones fundamentalists call 'sinners' are closer to God than those who hypocritically kill in God's name) as a near-perfect party song custom-made for dance parties inhabited by outsiders such as the sinning, supermarket-robbing, hard-drinking and violent main character.
According to Wikipedia, Kunst is the German and Dutch word for "art," so the Kunst appear to be the high and mighty who spurn the hero of this song. It is also more than likely that it is a pun on "cunts", seeing as how they regularly censor the word when playing the song live (at least on TV appearances, where the FCC may not be friendly to such a double-entendre) and the fact that Franz has dabbled in the same type of punnery in their past work (see the "Do You Want To" video where a member of the band removes the letter O from an art exhibit containing the word COUNT).
The prophets of Tesco that the narrator spurns, playing off of the prophet/profit homonym, could either mean the funds of the supermarket branch or a sardonic name for a group of people who view the supermarket (and, by extension, capitalism) as a type of religion.
"Five thousand users fed today" always sounded to me like "Five thousand uses for today." I still think the latter is a better and less awkward line (how often are misheard lyrics improvements?), but seeing the other double meanings and slanted pronunciations in this song, it could well be intentional. At least that's what I'm hoping.
This song is filled with double meanings, which is only appropriate because it functions just as well as a religious commentary (along the lines of: society is so that if Jesus came back we'd probably kill him again, and the ones fundamentalists call 'sinners' are closer to God than those who hypocritically kill in God's name) as a near-perfect party song custom-made for dance parties inhabited by outsiders such as the sinning, supermarket-robbing, hard-drinking and violent main character.
According to Wikipedia, Kunst is the German and Dutch word for "art," so the Kunst appear to be the high and mighty who spurn the hero of this song. It is also more than likely that it is a pun on "cunts", seeing as how they regularly censor the word when playing the song live (at least on TV appearances, where the FCC may not be friendly to such a double-entendre) and the fact that Franz has dabbled in the same type of punnery in their past work (see the "Do You Want To" video where a member of the band removes the letter O from an art exhibit containing the word COUNT).
The prophets of Tesco that the narrator spurns, playing off of the prophet/profit homonym, could either mean the funds of the supermarket branch or a sardonic name for a group of people who view the supermarket (and, by extension, capitalism) as a type of religion.
"Five thousand users fed today" always sounded to me like "Five thousand uses for today." I still think the latter is a better and less awkward line (how often are misheard lyrics improvements?), but seeing the other double meanings and slanted pronunciations in this song, it could well be intentional. At least that's what I'm hoping.