Business Suits and Combat Boots
Dismantling Norms: The Agonist's Powerful Commentary on Society
Lyrics
Does history guide you or do you set out to change it?
Questioning whether one follows historical norms or strives to bring about change.
Breached, not broken
Highlighting resilience in the face of adversity, being breached but not broken.
Breached, not broken
-Do you set out to change me?
Raising the question of attempting to change someone's identity or beliefs.
Thank you for that you giant human rat
Expressing disdain for a person, possibly with negative traits.
Fuck your skinned-alive designer wear
Criticizing superficiality, fashion, and cosmetic enhancements.
Fashion shades and salon hair
-Heels to help where nature failed
-Artificial teeth and nails
-The wasp's nest expands
Using a metaphor (wasp's nest) to depict the expansion of negative influences.
So, clap your hands
Encouraging action or celebration, possibly sarcastic or ironic.
It's her, the one black woman who's success you don't credit to Affirmative Action
Addressing racial bias and success attributed without considering affirmative action.
The way of the future is corporate sponsors raising your kids
Criticizing the impact of corporate sponsors on parenting and the value of money over maternal love.
Maternal love is nothing compared to what seven dollars gives
-Put in, suck out plastic body parts
Commenting on the cosmetic industry's focus on plastic surgeries and idealized beauty standards.
It's the ever-growing industry of cosmetic arts
-Bombarded with idealized shots, dysmorphic, self-destructive plots
Describing the negative consequences of distorted self-images due to societal pressures.
Physical flaws are a mental blank, a mental blank
Emphasizing the disconnect between physical flaws and mental well-being.
Physical flaws are a mental blank, a mental blank
-So pay your surgeons, it's your parents who you should thank
Suggesting a responsibility to parents for their children's choices, possibly related to cosmetic surgery.
These eyes are blind to several hundred left behind (lest we forget again)
Expressing a blind eye to the plight of others, possibly referring to historical events.
But the border is breached but not broken
Questioning the resilience of borders and societal structures when faced with challenges.
Who tries to find the several hundred left behind
-When the border is breached but not broken?
-Co-existing in a twisted society
Criticizing societal norms where youth is condemned, and luxury is defined by exploitative labor.
Where youth is a crime and wasteful sweat-shop expenditures is how luxury is defined.
-Now the KKK has found a new masquerade
Denouncing the KKK and rejecting claims of racial supremacy.
Fuck your self-claimed supremacy
-You hide your face and your shame
-Identify right and wrong when all fact is merely opinion
Challenging the perception of right and wrong based on subjective opinions.
You cannot know the sweetness of victory without first dwelling in the agony of defeat
Highlighting the contrast between victory and defeat as essential for personal growth.
These eyes are blind to several hundred left behind (lest we forget again)
Reiterating the blindness to the suffering of others and the resilience of borders.
But the border is breached but not broken
-Who tries (who tries) to find the several hundred left behind
-But the border is breached, the border is breached, the border
Stressing the breach of borders as a recurring theme with possible societal implications.
(These eyes are blind) to several hundred left behind
Repeating the theme of disregarding the plight of others, possibly a call to remember historical lessons.
We forgot again
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