happiness in slavery
slave screams he thinks he knows what he wants
slave screams thinks he has something to say
slave screams he hears but doesn't want to listen
slave screams he's being beat into submission
don't open your eyes you won't like what you see
the devils of truth steal the souls of the free
don't open your eyes take it from me
i have found
you can find
happiness is slavery
slave screams he spends his life learning conformity
slave screams he claims he has his own identity
slave screams he's going to cause the system to fall
slave screams but he's glad to be chained to that wall
don't open your eyes you won't like what you see
the blind have been blessed with security
don't open your eyes take it from me
i have found
you can find
happiness is slavery
i don't know what i am i don't know where i've been
human junk just words and so much skin
stick my hands thru the cage of this endless routine
just some flesh caught in this big broken machine
as far as this song is concerned, there are two kinds of people in the world. the first are the individuals, who see the world
through their own eyes and have their own unique perception of it, but who
pay for this by seeing and experincing the pain in the world as vividly or
more so than happiness. the second are conformists, who will buy into
anything if it comes with the promise that they will feel good. they live
from day to day doing what they always do, feeling what they always feel.
these people are happy not for any truly genuine reason, but because they've
shut their eyes to pain. they have no truly unique perception of the world
around them. if they did, what they saw would hurt them, ruin the fragile,
placid sense of peace they feel. they've bought their happiness at the price
of their selves. only those eho aren't like them see it clearly, but they are
slaves to whoever or whatever sold the happiness to them: the media, some
corrupt powerful person, religion, whatever.
-alexa
This song is basically about some of the wisest words in existence ignorance is bliss. Many people search for the truth
an answer of sorts but the powers that be will never truly let them discover it. The few that do break through in the
quest for this knowledge will wish to God they hadn't. Only in the dazed stuper of ignorance can most people be
content. Why suffer unhappy realities when the mundanity of routine and the bliss of mental lethargy offer a sanctuary
from pain and misery As I see it Happiness In Slavery was a clever sarcastic take on this opinion.
-serena
ok, lets start with a look at the title 'happiness in slavery.' this makes a lot of sense if you look at it in the terms of a
binding record contract (you would remember at the time TVT was trying to push trent into making another PHM
quickly) now onto some lyrics:
"slave screams he thinks he knows what he wants
slave screams thinks he has something to say
slave screams he hears but doesn't want to listen
slave screams he's being beat into submission"
i would guess these 3 lines are setting the fact of TVTs censorship of trent (rember twist being changed to be
ringfinger).
"don't open your eyes you won't like what you see
the devils of truth steal the souls of the free
don't open your eyes take it from me
i have found you can find
happiness is slavery"
trents saying he has a record concert that truthfully at the time he wanted a contract.
"slave screams he spends his life learning conformity
slave screams he claims he has his own identity"
trent rejecting his image TVT was marketing for him.
"slave screams he's going to cause the system to fall
slave screams but he's glad to be chained to that wall"
trent saying at TVT his presence wasnt all well liked but he tolerated it to put out his music.
"i don't know what i am i don't know where i've been
human junk just words and so much skin
stick my hands thru the cage of this endless routine
just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
trent ranting about his treantment at TVT
-hermes pan
i think happiness in slaver has to do with the tvt battle. it means he is a slave for the record company therefore he found
"happiness" in slavery untill he bought them out.
-jeff
