This song is clearly about the conflict between the enviromentalism and consumptionism, the female voice represents the first while the male voice represents the second.
We came down from the north
Blue hands and a torch
Red wine and food for free
A possibility
We share our mothers' health
It is what we've been dealt
What's in it for me?
Fine
Then I'll agree
Trees there will be
Apples, fruits maybe
You know what I fear
The end is always near
The utopia here is man couping with the nature, a simple life our ancestors led thousands of years ago. When food had to be grown, and the life was short, and unsure. This passage is song by a woman's voice because women are more intune with the nature than men can ever be (figure yourselves why is that).
Say you like it
Say you need it
When you don't
Looking better
Shining brighter
Than you do
The part that is being sung by a man, cuts in suddenly, and is louder than the woman's voice. It clearly represents the ideas that are almost fundamental in our western culture: consumption ("say you need and want it when you don't") the constant improvement that makes our science, and the strife to become the best (being famous is a clear symbol of that, shining better than others, even when in fact, you're not better than an ordinary joe).
Now the mens voice overpowers the female voice, that can be read as the dominance of men in the western culture, which pushed the woman back, at the same time pushed nature away. We made it submit to human needs, we produce more than we need, we have doctors and medicine so our lifes have greatly improved.
But is everthing ok? the title of this song seems to hint that there is a price we pay for all of this. And that we have hurt the planet and ourselves in the process, thus "We share our Mothers Health"
This is what I thought as well. But, sometimes artists have many meanings in their songs. Could be about all of them, or just one. John Lennon, in an interview, once said that every meaning is in a song, in the music. But it is, in the end, up to the listener to interpret it for himself and find his own meaning in it.
This is what I thought as well. But, sometimes artists have many meanings in their songs. Could be about all of them, or just one. John Lennon, in an interview, once said that every meaning is in a song, in the music. But it is, in the end, up to the listener to interpret it for himself and find his own meaning in it.
But, I agree with you on this one. This song is one of my favorites.
But, I agree with you on this one. This song is one of my favorites.
This song is clearly about the conflict between the enviromentalism and consumptionism, the female voice represents the first while the male voice represents the second.
We came down from the north Blue hands and a torch Red wine and food for free A possibility We share our mothers' health It is what we've been dealt What's in it for me? Fine Then I'll agree
Trees there will be Apples, fruits maybe You know what I fear The end is always near
The utopia here is man couping with the nature, a simple life our ancestors led thousands of years ago. When food had to be grown, and the life was short, and unsure. This passage is song by a woman's voice because women are more intune with the nature than men can ever be (figure yourselves why is that).
Say you like it Say you need it When you don't Looking better Shining brighter Than you do
The part that is being sung by a man, cuts in suddenly, and is louder than the woman's voice. It clearly represents the ideas that are almost fundamental in our western culture: consumption ("say you need and want it when you don't") the constant improvement that makes our science, and the strife to become the best (being famous is a clear symbol of that, shining better than others, even when in fact, you're not better than an ordinary joe).
Now the mens voice overpowers the female voice, that can be read as the dominance of men in the western culture, which pushed the woman back, at the same time pushed nature away. We made it submit to human needs, we produce more than we need, we have doctors and medicine so our lifes have greatly improved.
But is everthing ok? the title of this song seems to hint that there is a price we pay for all of this. And that we have hurt the planet and ourselves in the process, thus "We share our Mothers Health"
This is what I thought as well. But, sometimes artists have many meanings in their songs. Could be about all of them, or just one. John Lennon, in an interview, once said that every meaning is in a song, in the music. But it is, in the end, up to the listener to interpret it for himself and find his own meaning in it.
This is what I thought as well. But, sometimes artists have many meanings in their songs. Could be about all of them, or just one. John Lennon, in an interview, once said that every meaning is in a song, in the music. But it is, in the end, up to the listener to interpret it for himself and find his own meaning in it.
But, I agree with you on this one. This song is one of my favorites.
But, I agree with you on this one. This song is one of my favorites.
@sbto excellent interpretation
@sbto excellent interpretation