Another little lyrics analysis for you. (whoever 'you' is)
I was doing some history homework whilst listening to itunes, and this song came on. (2080 - Yeasayser)
I love the song but couldn't make out some of the lyrics so I searched them and came upon the song meanings website.
Lots of people had tried to interpret the lyrics but were struggling to understand what the whole song is actually about, as it comes across as quite contradictory.
One person, 'tifnz', came up with a good summary though;
"With no Berlin wall what the hell you gonna do"
The Berlin wall was symbolized the separation between democracy and communism. Without the Berlin wall, how are you supposed to separate the two ideologies?
If you think about when he says "I can't sleep when I think about the future I was born into", imagine being in a time of ww1 and what the people of that time were going through. Imagine if we were going through that right now. We say, "oh it's in the past and look at how they worried; their worries are irrelevant to our time!" So, perhaps the time that we are living in, and worrying in, will be looked back in 2080 as somewhat "irrelevant".
So we might as well all be farmers and not bother with worrying.. become passive observers, if you will.(I don't mean that farming is a passive lifestyle. Farmers feed us and make us a fat and happy nation.)
