Yablonowitz
02-06-2009, 09:37 PM
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Holy Moses met the Pharaoh
Yeah he tried to set him straight.
Looked him in the eye: "Let my people go."
Holy Moses on the mountain,
high above the golden calf
went to get the ten Commandments
Yeah, he's just gonna break them in half!
All you zombies hide your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
No one ever spoke to Noah
they all laughed at him instead;
Working on his ark
working all by himself.
Only Noah saw it coming
forty days and forty nights.
Took his sons and daughters with him
Yeah, they were the Isrealites!
All you zombies hide your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
Holy Father what's the matter?
Where have all your children gone?
Sittin' in the dark,
living all by themselves.
You don't have to hide anymore!
All you zombies show your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
All you zombies show your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
My thoughts:
This song seems to be speaking on matters of death and judgment. Judgment and death. Yet, it specifically is being sung to "zombies" who are, by definition, reanimated corpses - generally considered to be unconcerned with issues of death and judgment for, in a reanimated state, they are devoid of conscience and morality.
These zombies appear to be hiding (show your faces), yet the chorus also states that they can be found "in the street" and are "sitting in high places." This begs all manner of questions as to the artist's intent:
1) Why do they believe in zombies?
2) If they do, in fact, believe in zombies, aren't they aware that it is, essentially, negating the validity of the biblical stories they reference that are attempting to instruct people how to live so that they may enter the gates of heaven or be sentenced to burn in eternity in hell when they die? If there are zombies, then isn't the afterlife as it is depicted in the bible unequivocally false?
3) If we take the very long leap in logic and say that perhaps God does create a process by which people are reanimated and eat the flesh of other human beings with absolutely zero self-awareness or concern about morality, why would it matter to them that "the pieces are going to fall" on them?
One other topic for consideration: The line "yeah, they were the Israelites" sounds to me to be a somewhat forced attempt to find a rhyme with "nights". I'm embarrassed for them when they sing that part. Can we come up with a better alternative?
Holy Moses met the Pharaoh
Yeah he tried to set him straight.
Looked him in the eye: "Let my people go."
Holy Moses on the mountain,
high above the golden calf
went to get the ten Commandments
Yeah, he's just gonna break them in half!
All you zombies hide your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
No one ever spoke to Noah
they all laughed at him instead;
Working on his ark
working all by himself.
Only Noah saw it coming
forty days and forty nights.
Took his sons and daughters with him
Yeah, they were the Isrealites!
All you zombies hide your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
Holy Father what's the matter?
Where have all your children gone?
Sittin' in the dark,
living all by themselves.
You don't have to hide anymore!
All you zombies show your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
All you zombies show your faces
all you people in the street
all you sittin' in high places
the pieces gonna fall on you.
My thoughts:
This song seems to be speaking on matters of death and judgment. Judgment and death. Yet, it specifically is being sung to "zombies" who are, by definition, reanimated corpses - generally considered to be unconcerned with issues of death and judgment for, in a reanimated state, they are devoid of conscience and morality.
These zombies appear to be hiding (show your faces), yet the chorus also states that they can be found "in the street" and are "sitting in high places." This begs all manner of questions as to the artist's intent:
1) Why do they believe in zombies?
2) If they do, in fact, believe in zombies, aren't they aware that it is, essentially, negating the validity of the biblical stories they reference that are attempting to instruct people how to live so that they may enter the gates of heaven or be sentenced to burn in eternity in hell when they die? If there are zombies, then isn't the afterlife as it is depicted in the bible unequivocally false?
3) If we take the very long leap in logic and say that perhaps God does create a process by which people are reanimated and eat the flesh of other human beings with absolutely zero self-awareness or concern about morality, why would it matter to them that "the pieces are going to fall" on them?
One other topic for consideration: The line "yeah, they were the Israelites" sounds to me to be a somewhat forced attempt to find a rhyme with "nights". I'm embarrassed for them when they sing that part. Can we come up with a better alternative?