A lyric from the song is 'we've got heads on sticks, you've got ventriliquists'
The meaning of this i think is the same as bodysnatchers.
It isn't that we can't express ourselves, it is that we've lost ourselves. Even our thoughts and emotions are conrolled by society (the bodysnatcher or the ventriliquist)
THis fits with the fact that Hail to the thief was an album very Orwellian in meaning: It essentially said that Orwell's Thought police in 1984 are very much a part of reality: We are born and raised to love our culture, we are a part of it as much as it is imposed on us.
The conflict in the song then is not a war between the body and the mind, it is a war for control of the mind between society and individual, and society is much much stronger but the indiviual is determined not to be erased.
Refer back to the song Kid A on Kid A.
A lyric from the song is 'we've got heads on sticks, you've got ventriliquists'
The meaning of this i think is the same as bodysnatchers.
It isn't that we can't express ourselves, it is that we've lost ourselves. Even our thoughts and emotions are conrolled by society (the bodysnatcher or the ventriliquist)
THis fits with the fact that Hail to the thief was an album very Orwellian in meaning: It essentially said that Orwell's Thought police in 1984 are very much a part of reality: We are born and raised to love our culture, we are a part of it as much as it is imposed on us.
The conflict in the song then is not a war between the body and the mind, it is a war for control of the mind between society and individual, and society is much much stronger but the indiviual is determined not to be erased.