Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Deify by Disturbed

Whoa. I always get this tune stuck in my head... "Deeeee-ify yooooou!" I decided to look up the lyrics tonight. They are anti-Bush. I don't do politics so I immediately read something completely different into them. I don't want to spell out what it was, but I had some pretty intense flashbacks just now.... It's so - HIM! (*runs off to cower in a corner*)

"Deify"

Man1: That's what I believe got him re-elected, is the people knew that you could believe what he said
Man2: Well, that's a repressive comment
Bush: Our country is strong
Man3: But how many people march, it's like going to...
Bush: We go forward to defend freedom
Man4: ...the government's side
Bush: And all that is good, and just, in our world

All my devotion betrayed
I am no longer afraid
I was too blinded to see
How much you've stolen from me

You want to know why I feel so horrified?
I've let my innocence die
You want to know why I can't be pacified?
You made me bury something
I won't be sleeping tonight

I only wanted a blessing made
Now I've been labeled a renegade
It seems so clear now what I must do
You're no immortal
I won't let them
Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man

You want to know why it seems the passion's died?
We've all been living this lie
You want to know why my will's been fortified?
You've made me hunger again
Good luck sleeping tonight

I only wanted a blessing made
Now I've been labeled a renegade
It seems so clear now what I must do
You're no immortal
I won't let them
Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man

All my devotion betrayed
I am no longer afraid
I was too blinded to see
How much you've stolen from me

Deify you
They view you as the new messiah
Deify you
Renew belief in some demented man

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I still don't get why they spelled defy with an "i' in it.

Half the morons around me now think thay is how it's spelled.

The Silent Voices in my Mind said...

Anonymous: they are two separate words.

Defy, as you are thinking, is to do the opposite of what someone requests or expects.

Deify, as in the song, is to turn someone or something into a god or treat them as a god, to worship them. It's related to the word deity - which is a god.

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