About a song: Empire (2)

April 24, 2008

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Lyrical Excerpt:

Perfect blue
That’s my color
Perfect peace
That’s my policy
Don’t disturb my noisy slumber

I want more
I have more
Give me more

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The lyrics to this song is rather crude and primal. There’s really nothing profound, mysterious or mature about them. They don’t rhyme, either.

But for this song, I really feel that this is OK. Its brute honesty feels refreshing to me. And that honesty is what’s probably kept me drawn to this song for so long — this song being at least 13 or 14 years old.

I’ve always been a goody-two-shoes with secret admiration of punks and rebels. They just don’t seem to care what other people think. (which is far from true, now I know) They didn’t restrain themselves, tidy and pretty-up themselves to make themselves “acceptable” to the society. It seemed like a freer way to live.

Well, this song is me coming clean with one of the fundamental impulses of humanity: greed. There’s a fine line between our innate desire to grow and pure and unjustifiable greed.

The truth is, as much as I detest and condemn greed found in our governments, large corporations and selfish individuals, that same impulse lives in me. I’m trying to do the cat walk and restrain my primal greed, but not far beneath my socially acceptable surface lies this rather ugly monster. And this song is his outlet.

I’m guessing that I’ll be attracted to this song, as long as that animal inside stays insatiated. I hope, that in my graceful old age, I’ll be able to look back to this song and chuckle at my youthful aggression. If I still related to this song in my 70s or beyond — well, that’s a different picture from what I envision those years to be, that’s for sure.

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