Hey all, I think this song is actually fairly straight forward if you follow Aesop's work. It's kind of like thoughts from someone in a social coma navigating the American Dream, which to him is more like the American Nightmare.
It's not very political, it's more of like a subjective viewpoint. Consumerism is explored along with the whole package, the 9-to-5 job, sacrificing individual sanity for group insanity...
"We don't need no walkie talking, nope, no walkie talkies - we don't need your coughing when offing the morning coffee no - we just want our hermitry to stay and our coffee to go."
Not really interesting in what you brainwashed "walkie-talkies" are into.. we just want to keep to ourselves... The bit about wanting our coffee to go... kind of brings me back to 9 to 5ers anthem "poor myself a cup of ambition" which was a Dolly Parton lyric orginally. Caffeine is the stimulant we need to get up and face the monotony of our job/"high noon" - see Getaway Car.
He then proceeds to deliver a scathing commentary on those that buy into and perpetuate the mass insanity. But also, implies that he's cool with it... like that's your choice, but I don't want anything to do with it myself. He even says we should "pray for the plagued."
I'd really like to go and interpret each line one by one, but this is pretty much the story that each of my interpretations of these lines fit into, but I'll interpret the individual lines 3rdEyeVision prings up:
"You got to answer to you at the end of the volatile day, but a model of mercy and might? no way, marionette who will clap and obey."
Starts off with a disclaimer like, hey I don't mean to be judgmental or anything, obviously you have to answer to you, not me in your spiritiual quest.. but let's face it you're kidding yourself if you think you're some model of virtue, you're really just a marionette/puppet willing to jump for the higher powers which control you. And social standing you have right now is because you conformed not because you created it yourself.
"dude, look, all that noise? call that flight of the water boys"
Water is a metaphor that Aesop uses throughout his work. It's like the metaphor for the counter-culture, real hip-hop culture, art culture, truth, independence etc... Basically this line is just like "we're not having any of that ourselves, see ya"
"and the last shall be, first to immerse in the pass out heat"
I again see the water metaphor coming into play here. The pass out heat is relevant for its dehydrating implications.
", face in the mud where the moxie melt"
Mud, impure dirty water.. moxie can mean courage.. the water gets muddy from melted courage...
"'til he woke up drowning in tsatke hell"
Most of us do eventually wake up... perhaps only after we've arrived at success - only to discover that we've just been chasing after the wrong things - meaningless junk.
"more in a cave with a torch on the wall than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls"
There's a lot of room for interpretation here. I myself can't help but think of plato's cave with this line. So it just seems like another attack or expression of sympathy towards the unenlightened man.
"one little martyr who talk in his face make one little weathermen sharpen the blades"
weathermen is aesop's crew. It's also a reference to the weather underground of the 60's i think? Homegrown terrorists who believed in the violent overthrow of the US government. So it's like, again, the imagery is thick here with the American brainwashed in conflict with the willfully disenfranchised.
Hey all, I think this song is actually fairly straight forward if you follow Aesop's work. It's kind of like thoughts from someone in a social coma navigating the American Dream, which to him is more like the American Nightmare.
It's not very political, it's more of like a subjective viewpoint. Consumerism is explored along with the whole package, the 9-to-5 job, sacrificing individual sanity for group insanity...
"We don't need no walkie talking, nope, no walkie talkies - we don't need your coughing when offing the morning coffee no - we just want our hermitry to stay and our coffee to go."
Not really interesting in what you brainwashed "walkie-talkies" are into.. we just want to keep to ourselves... The bit about wanting our coffee to go... kind of brings me back to 9 to 5ers anthem "poor myself a cup of ambition" which was a Dolly Parton lyric orginally. Caffeine is the stimulant we need to get up and face the monotony of our job/"high noon" - see Getaway Car.
He then proceeds to deliver a scathing commentary on those that buy into and perpetuate the mass insanity. But also, implies that he's cool with it... like that's your choice, but I don't want anything to do with it myself. He even says we should "pray for the plagued."
I'd really like to go and interpret each line one by one, but this is pretty much the story that each of my interpretations of these lines fit into, but I'll interpret the individual lines 3rdEyeVision prings up:
Starts off with a disclaimer like, hey I don't mean to be judgmental or anything, obviously you have to answer to you, not me in your spiritiual quest.. but let's face it you're kidding yourself if you think you're some model of virtue, you're really just a marionette/puppet willing to jump for the higher powers which control you. And social standing you have right now is because you conformed not because you created it yourself.
Water is a metaphor that Aesop uses throughout his work. It's like the metaphor for the counter-culture, real hip-hop culture, art culture, truth, independence etc... Basically this line is just like "we're not having any of that ourselves, see ya"
I again see the water metaphor coming into play here. The pass out heat is relevant for its dehydrating implications.
Mud, impure dirty water.. moxie can mean courage.. the water gets muddy from melted courage...
Most of us do eventually wake up... perhaps only after we've arrived at success - only to discover that we've just been chasing after the wrong things - meaningless junk.
There's a lot of room for interpretation here. I myself can't help but think of plato's cave with this line. So it just seems like another attack or expression of sympathy towards the unenlightened man.
weathermen is aesop's crew. It's also a reference to the weather underground of the 60's i think? Homegrown terrorists who believed in the violent overthrow of the US government. So it's like, again, the imagery is thick here with the American brainwashed in conflict with the willfully disenfranchised.