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Fugazi - Rend it
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Alright, ive posted about this here before and received staunch criticism:

"Rend It"

Why don't you come to my house
Why don't you drag me right out
Past all the shit that i said i'm saying
Why don't you cut up my mouth
And i don't care what you use
Just don't ask me to choose
I forced a field to allow you
That's not so easy to do
I said I said what I said I want you to help me
Surrender rend it it's yours
Out in the open
We're wide open
Night light comes into my room
Some shade of bruise-colored blue
Moves through my mind like a chemical
Imbalance on schedule
My tasting face to the floor
Passive abject i'm sure
I lick my lips when I need it
Don't want to lick them no more
My love song went wrong


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Ian Mackaye obviously is known from his minor threat days as the creator of "straight edge" and created its original symbology by marking X's on kids hands at all ages shows held in liscensed venues. The song itself is pretty militant at the time (at the time) as he was watching his friends and his scene get fucked up.. or the circle jerks type "live fast, die young" brand punk - Hardcore (minorthreat) was a new avenue of expression, and a gateway for a healthier more proactive lifestyle "straightedge" measured Ian's distaste with the previous attempts at punk revolution/salvation...

I feel this is not to be taken literally, the word and the movement "straightedge" long ago lost all meaning and turned into an elitist clique of militant SXE hardcore kids with elitist attitudes. The x has turned into brass knuckles and switchblade tattoo's.

REND IT - (sung by gui of Embrace) is a call out to the past and the future. The lyrics are easy to dissect..

the first 4 lines:
Why don't you come to my house
Why don't you drag me right out
Past all the shit that i said i'm saying
Why don't you cut up my mouth


are a call out to the new movement holding *them* to a false standard.

the next 4:

i don't care what you use
Just don't ask me to choose
I forced a field to allow you
That's not so easy to do


Is a plea saying "i solved my shit, solve yours. I have no opinion on your lifestyle NOW, its yours!" its not so easy to do, i was singing about me, not writing a bible for you.

the next 2:

said I said what I said I want you to help me
Surrender rend it it's yours


Obviously i said what i said in 84.. 9 years have past, i say it no more. Do what you do, its all you.

and 2 more:

Out in the open
We're wide open


The truth is out. Wont let the past hold us to a standard.

The next 6 are curious:

Night light comes into my room
Some shade of bruise-colored blue
Moves through my mind like a chemical
Imbalance on schedule
My tasting face to the floor
Passive abject i'm sure


To me, this is a pretty clear passage about consuming psilocybe mushrooms, notice the reference to "light" "bruise colored blue" "moves through my mind like a chemical"... and you see where its going..

finally 2 more:

I lick my lips when I need it
Don't want to lick them no more


I saved myself when i was vulnerable. Im ok, and your ok. Its int he past..

and finally last line:

My love song went wrong

Speaks for itself.

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As i mentioned this song is sung by Gui and more than likely written by him. his lyrics are often introspective, poetic and open to interpretation.. Embrace (his original claim to fame) was one of the original outspoken EMO bands im the early 80's, very progressive..

Many people speculate of his enhanced and progressive mindset and possible use of "drugs".

Rend it - end it..

Of off of Fugazi - in on the kill taker...

Open up the the case and remove the cd and you will see "i will not lie" hand written (supposedly from a dumpsterdived journal of a mentally unstable person) .. did they write it, or did they find it? Why did they include it... For a band with such content i cant turn a blind eye to it.

Anyways, you be the judge.


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Re: Fugazi - Rend it [Re: PDU]
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It's a great song, but I have to say that Suggestion is my favorite by them.


Why can't i walk down a street free of suggestion?
Is my body the only trait in the eye's of men?
I've got some skin
You want to look in
There lays no reward in what you discover
You spent yourself watching me suffer
Suffer you words, suffer your eyes, suffer your hands
Suffer your interpretation of what it is to be a man
I've got some skin
You want to look in
She does nothing to deserve it
He only wants to observe it
We sit back like they taught us
We keep quiet like they taught us
He just wants to prove it
She does nothing to remove it
We don't want anyone to mind us
So we play the roles that they assigned us
She does nothing to conceal it
He touches her 'cause he wants to feel it
We blame her for being there
But we are all guilty


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Re: Fugazi - Rend it [Re: blissedout]
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also good - have you\seen the documentary - "Instrument" - Blissed?

so did fugazi use drugs or renounce straight edge?


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Re: Fugazi - Rend it [Re: PDU]
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damn hippies!


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Re: Fugazi - Rend it [Re: PDU]
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He hasn't renounced straight edge to my knowledge.:shrug: I will always love his work, regardless though. He is a great musician!


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