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    SGM "FC: The Freedom Club"

    I just recently watched a documentary on Ted Kaczynski, and I have always loved this tune, but never fully understood 100% of the lyrics. Anybody with any insight here would be appreciated. The fact that SGM achieves such an appropriate atmosphere speaks volumes as to their amazing creativity.

    Let us turn our backs on this world of ease
    Let us turn our backs and walk away
    Let us close our eyes to the glory of the machine
    Let us close our eyes and walk away

    I am getting that our society is turning our back on the environment, using technology at any cost

    The houses are all gone under the sea
    The dancers are all gone under the hill
    The houses are all gone under the sea
    the dancers are all gone under the hill

    Referring to the rise of the oceans and our houses under water? I'm not sure about the dancers line though....anybody?


    'And let us dream now the impossible dream of a math professor'

    Even when the last tree falls - there will be fire
    Even when the last bird is caught
    Wooden boxes
    Lovingly made by hands
    And filled up with fire
    To blow off the hands of the strong
    With wooden boxes

    'And let us never forget that the human race with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine'[B]

    Fairly obvious here (bomb-making), and a famous quote in his manifesto.

    Rise up! bring down the freedom club
    Rise up!
    Dream your impossible dream
    Crawl from the hole in the earth
    Crawl!
    The captains of this ship of fools are flesh, and softer than wood

    The Freedom Club The Freedom Club
    Rage
    The Freedom Club The Freedom Club
    Wait

    I had no idea he inscribed "FC" into his bombs until I watched the doc (but still not sure what Freedom Club refers to?)

    The hermit of the woods is gone
    The shack taken down
    And even though his mind now is corrupt
    His desperate warning lives on[B]

    'Blandly titled industrial society and its future'

    The name of his manifesto, and the fact that he was caught by his own brother turning him in.

    Rise up! Bring the funeral
    Rise up!
    Dream your impossible dream
    Crawl from the hole in the earth
    Crawl!
    The captains of this ship of fools are flesh, and softer than wood.

    The Freedom Club The Freedom Club
    Rage
    The Freedom Club The Freedom Club
    Wait

    Not sure what this whole bit is about?

    Let us lay to rest our future dream
    Let us leave it to rust and walk away
    Let us turn around on the road of progress
    Let us go back the way we came

    TK's wish to abolish technology and go back to simple living, being kinder to the envoronment?

    The houses are all gone under the sea
    (walk away walk away)
    The dancers are all gone under the hill
    (turn our backs turn our backs)
    The houses are all gone under the sea
    (close our eyes close our eyes)
    the dancers are all gone under the hill
    (turn around and go back the way we came)

    'Because we can

    What does "Because We Can" refer to?
    Last edited by chalkpie; 10-11-2017 at 07:58 PM.
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    If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.

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    I think that some of it is more about creating a feeling than anything specific. There's also an element of project/object to SGM - much of their music (going back to Idiot Flesh) is built around a home-made mythology, and a certain amount of it refers to that. They don't exactly mean it seriously, but it isn't exactly a joke, either. And some of those more enigmatic lines echo a late, never-released Idiot Flesh song about de-evolving and returning to the sea.

    Also, some of the lyrics you have here are a bit mangled, and make a few lines more confusing than they really are:

    ....Rise up! Friends of the Freedom Club, Rise up!
    Dream your impossible dream,
    Crawl from your hole in the earth, Crawl!
    The captains of this ship of fools are flesh, and softer than wood

    The Freedom Club The Freedom Club
    Rise
    The Freedom Club The Freedom Club
    Wake

    The hermit of the woods is gone
    The shack taken down
    And even though his mind now is drugged
    His desperate warning lives on

    'Blandly titled:
    Industrial Society and its Future

    Rise up! Friends of Unabomb, Rise up!
    Dream your impossible dream
    Crawl from your hole in the earth, Crawl!
    The captains of this ship of fools are flesh, and softer than wood.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalkpie View Post
    The houses are all gone under the sea
    the dancers are all gone under the hill
    This is verbatim from T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" (best of his "Four Quartets"). The next line is the more famous "O dark dark dark, they all go into the dark..."
    ... “there’s a million ways to learn” (which there are, by the way), but ironically, there’s a million things to eat, I’m just not sure I want to eat them all. -- Jeff Berlin

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