You Can't Buy Back the Dead
Unveiling Societal Decay: You Can't Buy Back the Dead by Vice Squad
Lyrics
Marketing new miracles to keep us off the streets
Marketing new miracles reflects the exploitation of hope to control people.
Some fall by the wayside uninvited to the feast
Some are excluded from societal benefits without invitation.
Welcome home the vulture men to pick the bodies clean
Vulture men symbolize those who profit from others' misfortune.
Cover up and sanitise the cruel and the obscene
Attempts to hide and cleanse harsh realities from public view.
But you can't take it with you
Material possessions are meaningless after death.
Or pay god to forgive you
No amount of wealth can buy forgiveness from a higher power.
You can't buy back the dead and gone
The irreversible nature of death; wealth can't revive the deceased.
No you can't take it with you
Reiteration of the futility of carrying wealth into the afterlife.
Or pay god to forgive you
Emphasis on the inability to buy divine forgiveness.
The war machine still rumbles on
Reference to the perpetual existence of war machinery.
Human vermin fighting over rotting meat
Dehumanization as people fight over meager resources.
Top dogs in designer clothes delight in their deceit
Critique of the wealthy, dressed in luxury, reveling in deception.
Make god in your likeness, stifle intellect
Creating a god in one's image stifles intellectual growth.
Arrogance is worshipped in the gutter press
Celebrating arrogance, especially in sensationalized media.
Carve up other countries with your butchers knife
Imposing control on other nations through violent means.
Who cares when the profit justifies the price?
Indifference to human suffering when profits are at stake.
but you can't take it with you
Repeated emphasis on the futility of taking wealth to the afterlife.
Or pay god to forgive you
Continued inability to purchase divine forgiveness.
You can't buy back the dead and gone
Reiteration of the irreversibility of death and the inability to buy it back.
Enough's never enough
Commentary on insatiable desires and the corrupting nature of absolute power.
Absolute power will corrupt
Warning about the corruptive influence of unchecked authority.
The war machine still rumbles on
Reiteration of the persistent presence of war machinery.
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