Thursday, January 8, 2009

Toxicity

Toxicity is a song by System of a down when Serj Tankin was still in their band.
Lyrics

This song is talking about how just chaotic and confused as a society we have become. This becomes clear when he starts saying "Conversion, software version 7.0" mean that we are upgrading to what is needed in order to keep up with the times. The song also says that we have become people who have become obsessed with being skinny by saying the "Eating seeds as a pastime activity". That points out that there is now a sense of people not eating just to be beautiful. Then he goes on saying that people want to own the own world but then say why would you want to own disorder. He says Sacred Silence in this song not just silence because he wants to make clear that it so hard to get silence in this day and age and sometimes that's what some people need but it's just so hard to obtain and the only time you get it is in your sleep. But this song overall is just about the Toxicity or corruption on people just by time moving by.

1 comment:

Cody Dederich said...

Gah, I love this song! It pretty much single handedly got me into music. Your close reading is pretty much what I got out of the song too. Based on the other songs on the album it wouldn't be hard to deduce that this song is about pollution either.