But specifically, these two phrases, seem to be pointing more at developing aid, because there’s no real expectation of the US (or the rest of the western world), helping other nations select a working political system, although at this point in the song, no expectation of help has been introduced, so maybe it could still be this interpretation. I think it could also be about the unstable political climate in developing nations, and the difficulties in finding a political system that works in developing nations, this is how I read the phrase at first, and actually also throughout the entire second half of this reading (about the second verse of the song). Because to me the image of a fly going through a room just looking for a place to land looks fairly similar to the way developing nations try to find their way in this world, trying to get to a place where they can have an economy on which they can sustain themselves. I think this is specifically about development aid or humanitarian interventions. The reason I think this sentence is about US foreign policy is that sometimes, some other nations seem like flies compared to the US’s military/economic power, to some people (see for example this). To me, the first half is clearly about US foreign policy.īut in my first impressions, I didn’t really identify which parts of Foreign policy it was about, and some of the latter parts of this reading will, because of this, be based on false assumptions. It’s a bit messy because I read the second half of the transcript before I read the first half, and I think I’ve definitely made some errors in doing so, but I still think it’s still pretty interesting. This makes me think that a deliberate change in the transcript is also possible, to advance a foreign policy interpretation of the game perhaps.Īnyway underneath you’ll find my interpretation of the song. The changes between the wiki and real song version certainly made the foreign policy interpretation either more obvious to me, or more “correct” if you believe that’s a thing with interpretations. I’ve heard that the game changes a few lines of dialogue in new game plus mode so it might also change a few lines in the Lyrics of certain songs, perhaps to make finding a connection to real-world ideas/events easier. I’m not sure if it was a mistake by the wiki writers because the song might be different in the game, or the game might change the song on subsequent playthroughs. It will also be interesting to see where the error in the wiki came from and if it really is an error. I’ll try to write some stuff and/or do some actual video recording when I replay the game, but I’m not going to promise anything, since I think I’m a bit too much in a state of flux, to accurately predict if I will actually keep those promises. However, at some point, I’m pretty sure I’ll replay this game from a new save, and at that point, I think I’ll do a more proper analysis of all or at least some of the songs.Īt that point, I think it will also be interesting to see if I still get the same interpretation of this song when the rest of the game is fresher in my mind. I think I’ll still go ahead and post my reading, based on this false transcript, anyway. It’s not when you get there, it’s always the climb Maybe you’re looking for someone to blameįighting for air while you circle the drain In through the window and up through the hall Here is the song, and underneath I posted the transcript I used for my reading. Oops, I… I based this reading off of an incorrect transcript of the song….
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