| BLACK MARKET MUSIC TASTE IN MEN This is a song about somebody wanting their lover to change their mind about leaving them, and to "Come back to them a while" DAYS BEFORE YOU CAME This song is lyrically straight forward, and it can be seen as being about someone falling in love, or kicking a drug habit. It is about something taking over your life without you asking for it ("I didnt want you anyway") SPECIAL K A song about somebody falling in love faster than a drug (Ketamine) SPITE & MALICE This was initially a song about homophobia, but after seeing a green mohican pained on Winston Churchill's head during the Mayday riots, Brian leapt into song "Dope, guns fucking in the streets" when someone told him that there he had a chorus. This song covers political issues, with cards representing different things. The queens being left for dead may symbolise the fact that womans status is lower than the males Ace's. PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE This is about someone striving for something. Then, when they reach it, they rise, seeing all others falling. It is about choices. Chosing to let Jesus in, chosing to let somebody to be apart of your life. BLACK-EYED This song is about Brian's childhood, and being mentally scarred, and on the verse of insanity due to the pain in his home at the the divorce of his parents. BLUE AMERICAN The lowest point on the album. A song about pure self disgust. Uncle Tom is a character from a 19th Century book that contains slaves rising against their masters, about against extreme racism. SLAVE TO THE WAGE This is a song bout not working yourself into an early grave. It is about running away and following your dreams. Maggie's farm was a song by Bob Dylan. COMMERCIAL FOR LEVI No. Not the jeans. This is about drugs, and loving someone so much, and feeling the pain of knowing that they are on the verge of dying. "Spunk and bestiality, its an Assisi lie" This is a line refering to St. Francis of Assisi, a saint who loved animals. This is pushing it further saying there was something sexual between the animals and him. The name of this song is a dedication to a man, named Levi, who saved Brian, after he nearly walked into the middle of the road and got hit by a bus. Brians way of repaying him was to put his name in a song. HAEMOGLOBIN A bitter song about racism. Based on a song which contains images of black decaying fruit hanging from trees, "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday. The first verse is of anxiety about dying, and then in the second verse, he is brought down, and the felings of confusion bewilder him. By the last verse these feelings become rage, and anger. NARCOLEPTIC This is about someone that is confused, and unable to stay awake. They are only able to write their sentance, while the whole world is flowing by in paragraphs. It is about how love can die. PEEPING TOM About voyeurism. It is about a guy who is all alone and needs to have feelings of being superior to people, because he has nothing else to live for. BLACK MARKET BLOOD A song about armageddon. Preparing for the end of the world. |