Commie #4522
Prince
My Chemical Romance is probably my favorite band. I have all of their CDs and posters in my room and I've been to a couple of their concerts. Their new CD came out some time ago and my favorite song on their CD is "Mama", which I interpret it to be about the Iraq War. To those who have heard the song already: Do you agree? I'll analyze the lyrics right now:
The first part, which I like to think of the intro, is pretty archetypal. It gives you a sense of a soldier writing to his mother. It's pretty bleak saying that "we're all going to hell, we're all going to die", which is much like the quagmire the Iraq war (I'll extrapolate on this later).
The first 3 lines is much about how the Iraq soldiers mentality was, they volunteered to go into Iraq (so they don't want to be blamed for making this choice), and the upsurge of blind patriotism has made everyone who went to Iraq a hero (you made us all so famous). The last two lines are kind of strange, I think they are from the perspective of the "mama", who don't want their sons to go but once they do go, they don't feel that it was right for them to go.
America tries to pretend that these deeds were not supported, just like a mother would condemn her son if she found out he was a murderer (but still loves him on the inside).
This is about George W. Bush's idealogy of staying the course ("we all carry on") even if everyone will just keep dying. The whole "tomorrow we die" line is just another hopeless cry that means that eventually (tomorrow probably means any indefinite time in the future) the soldiers (and maybe even the USA) will die.
I know there are some that will disagree with this interpretation, but many poems and books have different interpretations and I'd be glad to hear what you guys think of it all.
The first part, which I like to think of the intro, is pretty archetypal. It gives you a sense of a soldier writing to his mother. It's pretty bleak saying that "we're all going to hell, we're all going to die", which is much like the quagmire the Iraq war (I'll extrapolate on this later).
The first 3 lines is much about how the Iraq soldiers mentality was, they volunteered to go into Iraq (so they don't want to be blamed for making this choice), and the upsurge of blind patriotism has made everyone who went to Iraq a hero (you made us all so famous). The last two lines are kind of strange, I think they are from the perspective of the "mama", who don't want their sons to go but once they do go, they don't feel that it was right for them to go.
This is a direct reference to the Iraq war and the lies that George W. Bush and co said to get them to go. In their hearts the soldiers know that they are just lying to do the things done in the Iraq war, and they know they are doing evil things there. This also is the beginning of the theory about "mama" being as a symbol not only of a "mother" but also "mother America" overall. The coffin being described is the sideaffect of the Iraq war that has damned America and earned the scorn of the world for this.
This line is about the remorse that America has raised a generation of hawkish warriors. "What the war did to my tongue" refers to the change in ideology and words, with the advent of labeling terrorists and neocon talk. "You shoulda ... been a better son", these two lines shows yet again how America is abandoning their troops and not supporting their task and such, but deep in their heart they know that it's not true and they still support their goals.
This is just like the lines above that I've already described.
This is after the many war crimes and other evil deeds in Iraq that were done,
America tries to pretend that these deeds were not supported, just like a mother would condemn her son if she found out he was a murderer (but still loves him on the inside).
These lines show that America would rather forget and pretend nothing ever happened, like the crimes in Iraq and Guantanamo.
This is just showing how we've gotten so deep in Iraq there's no where else to go but go deeper. Now that we've been here so long its "really quite pleasant" which shows the troops are used to it already.
The first line, I'm not so sure about. The other line is another example of the war crimes, a soldier lamenting for what evil deeds he's done with his gun.
These lines show the moral dillema. The soldiers are famous for doing their deeds but they know they've done evil and had turned Iraq into "ashes". The line that says "if you can stay I'll show you the way" is the idea that out of the ashes of their destroyed nations, if the Iraqis chose it, the Americans can "show them the way" to Democracy.
This is about George W. Bush's idealogy of staying the course ("we all carry on") even if everyone will just keep dying. The whole "tomorrow we die" line is just another hopeless cry that means that eventually (tomorrow probably means any indefinite time in the future) the soldiers (and maybe even the USA) will die.
I know there are some that will disagree with this interpretation, but many poems and books have different interpretations and I'd be glad to hear what you guys think of it all.
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post it, so I looked it up, and it seems to be true, and looking at their lyrics, it's very true.
