"You're punching and your kicking and your shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced, but i'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from you head to your fist....."
2007-07-25 05:35:14 · 19 answers · asked by Oberon 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
This is one of my favorite songs. It speaks loads to me. I think of these words everytime I see or hear of hate.
It reminds me or me...being the one wanting to know what I did that was so wrong to be hated for living...beaten for wanting...and attacked for loving....
2007-07-25 05:41:47 · update #1
Depeche Mode before I knew them as DEPECHE MODE. "People Are People" certainly registered with me when it first came out, but the group as a whole didn't set off my musical "gaydar" until VIOLATOR came out. "People" was one of the first songs I thought of when I first heard the news about Matthew Shepard. (sp?) But nothing hit home for me more personally than my "now or never" song (as in coming out for good), "Policy Of Truth".
You had something to hide
Should've hidden it, shouldn't you?
Now you're not satisfied
With what you've been put through...
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On a policy of truth...
2007-07-25 09:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by dreamchaser8860 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Takes me back to 1984. I think it's message still stands true.
EDIT: I remember during the Music For The Masses Tour '87-88, I was 13 and my parents wouldn't let me go. But my sister and friends went. Go figure!
The World Violation Tour on July 24, 1990 in Park City got rained out, and moved to Salt Lake City on the 25th. It was a great performance by DM & Nitzer Ebb. What a coincidence today is the 25th of July! I hadn't thought of this in years.
2007-07-25 12:42:23 · answer #2 · answered by Active Denial System™ 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
This might be totally off the mark but I feel that these are anti-war lyrics (judging only by your entry, as I have not heard the song.) I think that it it is talking about the enemy that seems to always be fighting and using violence, but we have to just lay back and wait for their common sense and decency to kick in. Everyone has a conscience and a heart. [I am not saying I believe all of that...but that is my interpretation of the lyrics]
2007-07-25 13:08:48 · answer #3 · answered by schonevestidos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! Well, I'd say...
This person is seeing the bad side of someone, who he thought/knows differently. The traveling from head to fist might be his self respect, or self control. He has it, but doesn't show it - his fists suggest differently.
2007-07-25 12:42:55 · answer #4 · answered by Flakkenmarsh 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of my favorite songs by Depeche Mode of course. I think you mean what do I think they're talking about, so I have always thought it was either racial intolerance or gay bashing but it's hard to say. Good question.
2007-07-25 12:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It makes me think of an abusive relationship where one person is delusional by thinking the other person is going to magically change.
2007-07-25 13:35:51 · answer #6 · answered by B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depech Mode are GODS. When are they going to tour again?
2007-07-25 13:11:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Makes me think of Depeche Mode...:-)
2007-07-25 12:39:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
An abusive relationship, or gay bashing. One or the other.
2007-07-25 14:49:48 · answer #9 · answered by whatnext 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is so sad. One day soon gays have to be accepted by everyone, they just have to be.
2007-07-25 15:28:14 · answer #10 · answered by For Da Be Dan- Liza p 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋