But the band's heart and humor remained audibly intact amid the musical onslaught, with lyrics inspired by everything from the Iraq War ("B.Y.O.B.") to the depressing spectacle of old C-list actors still coasting on their celebrity ("Old School Hollywood Baseball"). On Mezmerize alone, songs like "B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Bombs)," "Question," "Radio/Video," "Lost in Hollywood" and the memorably titled "This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm on This Song" were - even by SOAD standards - crammed to the hilt like sonic clown cars with a crazy array of hooks, influences and unexpected left turns. It shows how the students needed help from the american government or even the UN, but they were left on their own and demolished by tank regiments.Which was actually a good idea, because Mezmerize/ Hypnotize contained the band's most head-spinning material yet. For the sitting in the car part, the song is personifying the american government as the guy in the car, and the girl as the chinese students, i believe the girl is literally the girl of liberty which was a little statue that the students had set up in Tiananman square. The song then goes into how the Chinese media is controlled by the government, after this incident the media in china actually portrayed the actions of the army as heroic, by bravely standing against this aggressive protest against the nation and the ever loving chinese government. The song first starts talking about the actual massacre that occurred on jwhere hundreds of chinese students were slaughtered during a peaceful demonstration asking for more democratic freedoms.
#HYPNOTIZE SYSTEM OF A DOWN LYRICS FREE#
This song is referencing events almost completely about the tiananmen square incident, but the general idea and message of this song can be used in any nation where free thinking is outlawed. Basically he is waiting for his girl to realize things like he does. He is waiting for his girl to realize the truth (or get into the car with him).
The only thing I could come up with is that he already sees through the everyday propoganda, and has gotten into the car (or movement) to be against it. I'm not sure if it is metaphorical or if he was just sitting in his car waiting for his girl. He then talks about sitting in his car, waiting for his girl. I've had girlfriends that have had a hard time with my interpretations of world events. By this he means that he has explained his political, or deep social views to his girl, and she was disturbed by it. He then says "She's scared that I will take her away from there, Her dreams that her country left with no one there". The Tiananmen Square example is how a protest against the brutal treatment of citizens by the Chinese government was potrayed as a movement for freedom of fasion in order to make it appear to be less serious. The song is about how propaganda makes one thing look like another, bending the facts in the favor of the government. The "burning" you speak of was the army burning the bodies of the civilians they killed. It was a MASSACRE of protesters by the Chinese army. The Tiananmen Square massacre had nothing to do with "self-immolation" or "suicide" as you say.
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