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- chapotraphouse
- music
- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse
- music
Always see it on T.V.
Or read in the magazines
Celebrities they want sympathy
All they do is piss and moan
Inside the Rolling Stone
Talkin' about how hard life can be
Here Good Charlotte comments on the hollow tears of the bourgeoisie as they complain about their "problems" as the proletariat are suffering.
I'd like to see them spend a week
Livin' life out on the street
I don't think they would survive
But they could spend a day or two
Walking in someone else's shoes
I think they'd stumble and they'd fall
They would fall (fall)
Here Good Charlotte sympathizes with the lumpen-proletariat and explains that the life of a homeless person is much more difficult than the life of the ultra-wealthy. They posit that the bourgeoisie, because of their pampered class status, are incapable of surviving as a lumpen-prole.
Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'
If money is such a problem
Well they got mansions
Think we should rob them
In these lyrics Good Charlotte encourages praxis by directly taking back from the bourgeoisie what is rightfully ours. The surplus value that was stolen will be re-appropriated by the proletariat.
Well did you know when you were famous you could kill your wife
And there's no such thing as 25 to life
As long as you've got the cash, to pay for Cochran
And did you know if you were caught and you were smokin' crack
McDonalds wouldn't even want to take you back
You could always just run for mayor of D.C.
Good Charlotte shows here how the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie applies the law differently to the mega-rich as opposed to the proletariat by citing two examples in recent memory (this was released in 2002). The first is the trial of O.J. Simpson, a direct reference to how the bourgeoisie class can simply buy the courts if things aren't going their way. The second is a reference to Marion Berry, a politician who got off relatively easy for smoking crack cocaine. Good Charlotte points out how the war on drugs is a policy that targets the proletariat and lets the bourgeoisie and their bought politicians live scot-free.
If money is such a problem
You got so many problems
Think I could solve them
Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
We'll take the clothes, cash, cars, and homes, just stop complainin'
In the final lyrics of the song Good Charlotte endorses a revolution against the rich and the famous. Good Charlotte directly calls for the liquidation of the bourgeoisie as a class, a necessary step in establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.
In conclusion, this song is a socialist masterpiece and should be played alongside The Internationale.