'Television made you buy it' is about how people seem to just accept what is shown to the on the news without even thinking, 'is this true,' They disguise it and hypnotize it means they are changing the meaning of certain elements of it while they take away what is most important. These being the same liberties that other people in places like China fought and died to try to attain. This part is about the civil liberties that 1st world countries slipping away and slowly being taken away while we do nothing. #2 'They disguise and hypnotize it television made you buy it.' The song asks, 'Do you think the kids of Tienanmen square fought and died in protest because it was fashionable?' Many of them were killed by firing squad or being run over by tanks in a horrible suppression of human rights. This refers to the 1989 Tienanmen square protests in china where a ton of college students peacefully protested asking their government 'The People's Republic Of China,' for freedom democracy and basic human rights like freedom of speech and suffrage (the ability to vote). #1: Why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen square, is fashion the reason why they were there? It's one of the deepest songs I've ever found. Very powerful stuff, especially since I just took my final for my Chinese society class. Sorry guys, but thats what I think of when I hear this song. The guy is still waiting for this girl to be brave and accept the truth. They are blind to the true meaning of freedom/democracy.

The people who only think about whats fed to them are being mezmorized by the media and television. >Mezmerized the simple minded, propaganda leaves us blinded. He wants to de-hypnotize her and show her the true meaning of freedom and democracy.

She is frightened about what this guy will show her because it will contradict all that she believes in and has been taught to believe. However, that someone is reluctant to go because she has been hypnotized and her dream and country are all that she puts value in. He is waiting for someone to come with him (the car signifies going in a new direction or changing opinions). >Dreams and her country, left with no-one there. >She's scared that I will take her away from there. >I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my. Has to do with the 'i shop, therefore i am' philosphy of Americans. We have been hypnotized by television to believe that that's what freedom is all about. The media/advertisers have made freedom and democracy all about buing material goods. They have been oppressed for so long that they would risk their lives for freedom. The something more is a desire for freedom and democracy and the end of the tyranny. >Was fashion the reason why they were there?ĭid the students at Tiananmen square risk their lives just so they could wear the latest fashions and buy other material goods? They were obviously doing it for something more. >Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen square? To me, the main themes of this song are freedom and democracy and how we have come to misinterpret their meaning.

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