01-04-19
From their follow-up album, Friend and Foe, Menomena created a song that seems to encapsulate the feeling of Submission perfectly.
The desire and goal of the character in the song are to find peace in being part of the machine which is larger than themselves; as if it was herald from years ago, their whole aspiration in life is to fit in the larger mechanism the world has provided.
I always listened to this song and heard the voice of Mr. Brent Knopf singing about the desire to be something more basic, something that fits in when he and the other members of Menomena likely do not.
Submitting to the reason we’re here, it’s a terrifying endeavor, there is no one to definitively tell us that what we’re doing is right or the that which we should be doing. We have to hope that the world we intuit for ourselves is actually the one we’re born to fulfill.
The power of being part of something larger, to be subjugated to a menial repetitive existence does have an alluring sense. No need to worry about whether you’re doing what you’re supposed to, or whether or not it’s the right thing to do. The quandaries that come with these philosophical postulations do not interfere when they do not exist.
Lyrics:
And on that walk, I gave my hand
O, to be wanted
To be useful
My whole world is your property
O, to be wanted
To be useful
And on that walk, I gave my hand