Alien Girlybrain

A few years ago (like ten, I guess) Everclear released the song “Santa Monica” (mp3 link). Then in 2001 some islamists flew some airplanes into the WTC and Pentagon. And America went insane. Suddenly we were walking on eggshells. We couldn’t say what we were thinking anymore because it might be “inappropriate”. We couldn’t have a film like “The Two Towers” because it was INSENSITIVE! And America’s illegal media monopolists, Clear Channel, decided it had better make up a list of songs “inappropriate” for broadcast on its network (which, for the record, is something like 60% of all radio stations in the US). These guys get to decide what people hear.

And so stuck in amongst those dangerous, inappropriate songs such as Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World” and that paen to terrorism, “Walk Like An Egyptian” was Everclear. Click the link above for the song. The lyrics are reproduced below for your amusement. See if you can spot the hidden terrorist subtext.

I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don’t want to be your downtime
I don’t want to be your stupid game

With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I’ll find myself a new place
I don’t want to be the bad guy
I don’t want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
Go and try to shake away this disease

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

I am still dreaming of your face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away

I don’t want to be your good time
I don’t want to be your fall-back crutch anymore

I’ll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird way
I don’t want to be the bad guy

I don’t want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to feel some sunshine
I just want to find some place to be alone

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
And watch the world die