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Back to the song...

Posted by Goethe on 2008-October-19 06:34:01 EDT, Sunday
In reply to Re: Rudimentary Peni posted by Goethe on 2008-October-19 06:18:41 EDT, Sunday

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...many of us found it difficult to make sense of some of the bits. So if what you're saying is right and that it is an "exploitation" song, I am guessing from here that the "Smash cash" is to do with prostitution money? And "smash trash" means to crack down on paedophiles (paedophiles being the "trash")? Right so far? "Not long now to the sub-teen revolution"...I was never sure what this meant. "Revolution"? and "sub-teen"? = pre-teen? "the winding up's gone on too long"...I guess this would all depend on the overall context of the song. what is the "winding up"?

"Babies bite back" either means a call for children to bite back at paedophiles or bite back at society for condescending and dictating what they do or don't do with their own bodies. "Alice crucifies the paedophiles". I don't know who Alice even is. Notice though that the nature of the sentence doesn't seem like a CALL to crucify paedophiles, but rather an implying that it DOES happen. But when most punk bands sing that something DOES happen usually means that it's something they don't like happening. It would seem unusual that a punk band would sing about something that both DOES happen and that it is something that they also LIKE. Most punk lyrics usually make statements saying this happens or that happens and that is something that always serves as the very basis of what they're complaining about. And that's why I have often tended to think that the line "Alice crucifies the pedophiles" is something that they see as unjust. Another thing that I have also wondered was that this song is trying to point out the very difference between rapists and paedophiles. On one hand at the beginning of the song they are criticising coercive sex/prostituion but end the verses by saying that it is also unfair that society crucifies paedophiles. So perhaps a duel meaning to the song and the showing of two sides of the coin? It's hard to say.

Goethe


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