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thisrawcoldlife:
“Autobiography of a Nation” - Thursday
changing things up with some hardcore today—one of the few non-Hip-Hop artists that come with lyrics as nice as the the best MC’s:
Write these words back down inside
We have burned their villages and all the people in them died
We adopt their customs and everything they say we steal
All the dreams they had we kill
Still we all sleep sound tonight
Is this what you wanted to hear?
We erased all their images and dance
And replaced them with borders and flags
At the top of this timeline you’ll remember
This is the lipstick on the collar
And in my own life, I’ve seen it in the mirror
sometimes at the cost of others hopes
So write these words back down inside
That’s where you need it the most
and without conviction of heart you will never feel it at all
Yeah, we all dance to the same beat when we we’re marching
Yeah, the TV tells us everything we need to know
And this scene is painted in all the fashions of the moment
And history is all the same
Everything you say you stole
Every dream you dream you bought
But I’m still here and we are all guilty.
Love the song, love the poem: “Sun” by Michael Palmer.
matthew’s theory notecards
For the Workforce, Drowning illustrated through violent aesthetic song how alienation can be played out in the corporate-business realm. Marx’s understanding of a worker’s alienation from oneself (or ‘species-essence’) is vivid in the lines describing how human existence becomes nothing but a number or copy—a disposable worker held by hands of the capitalist-bourgeoisie. Thursday, a post-hardcore band with an edge of socio-political awareness, readily issues line after line of songs about capitalism, alienation, subjectivity, and sexuality. Here, it is apparent the influence of Marx and theories of alienation as the lines read: ‘all those breaths that you took have now been cancelled in your lungs.’
matthew’s blog
letshugitoutbitch:
fuckyeahtattoos:
Geoff Rickly of Thursday, and Full Collapse is their best record.
what do you think ?
What do I think? I think that’s a little gay.
Aww, I think it’s sweet. But I think Waiting is their best record.
