Here comes Queen America To punish all the barbarous Here comes Queen of Peace and Freedom Leading strong executioners What a beautiful figure, brighter than sun It makes people blind What a beautiful voice, it's clearer than stars It makes people dumb The spears fall down on the lake Fulfilled with tears, tears Her torchlight shines on the earth Her torchlight shines on the earth How proper the wisdom, your majesty! It makes monkeys wise How proper the anger, your majesty! It lets people die How long you've been waiting, your majesty For the order is fair and square How deep you've been saddened, your majesty Such evil sods here and there The hammers fall down in the air Fulfilled with fear, fear Her torchlight shines on the earth, Shines on the earth, shines on the earth Here comes Queen America To punish all the barbarous Here comes Queen of Peace and Freedom Leading strong executioners Here comes Queen America Down on your knees and praise her now Here comes Queen of Peace and Freedom Ring the bells of peace ahh Here comes Queen America..... Here comes Queen America.....
The sweetness of the melody belies the sardonic, ironic quality of the lyrics. I'm guessing the lyrics were possibly in reaction to the Iraq invasion of 2003. if so, this song is a powerful and ironic political statement on top of its musical brilliance----The highest artistic level of popular songwriting, IMO. This is truly a great band.
@notrombones50419 жыл бұрын
***** I doubt that's the reason Cymbals had no airplay or coverage in America (if that's what you mean). None of the other great Shibuya-kei groups get any US airplay either. I'd love to see that change, bigtime.
@notrombones50419 жыл бұрын
I've been a Cymbals addict since I 1st heard them probably less than a year ago. I've been into various Japan pop/rock since 2011. I like Harvard, Serani Poji, Pizzicato 5, lots of stuff by Yasutaka Nakata, 9Goats Black Out, qpd/Darars, etc etc The pop beats the crap out of American pop, IMO. And the rock is exploratory and adventurous, like our rock used to be in the 70s. I don't dislike all American & western bands (love Mew, Everything Everything, Tesseract, Miike Snow, Built-To-Spill, and some others). But Overall, I must say I prefer the best pop and rock produced from Japan. Artistically, creatively, IMO, they OWN that shit now. Japan is on a roll, musically, IMHO.
@NikiWonoto266 жыл бұрын
+notrombones hi, i'm not sure if you're still active or not, but i'm also a big fan of "Shibuya-kei" music genre, i also love all those japanese/artists musicians that you've mentioned above. i want to connect more with you, do you have facebook/twitter/active contacts? thank you (from Indonesia)
@PoochiePookie123 жыл бұрын
@@notrombones5041 :000 if you like shibuya kei I suggest Citrobal’s songs :)))
@notrombones50413 жыл бұрын
@@NikiWonoto26 - Here's my Shibuya kei FB page .............................................................. facebook.com/iloveshibuyakei
It's the main part of the lyric. ---- Here comes Queen America To punish all the barbarous Here comes Queen of Peace and Freedom Leading strong executioners Here comes Queen America Down on your knees and praise her, now Here comes Queen of peace and Freedom Ring the bells of peace ahh Here comes Queen America... Here comes Queen America...