dawn
Lack Lyrics


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If you could have the legal rights on air, be sure that it would have a price and a barcode. Yeah, we're making everything and everyone the same. So that there'll be nothing left that can't be sold. The Ethic of the Free Market: so act that you hereby can make us believe that buying more and more things we don't need will make us happy with our lives. This is the Tyranny of the Equivalent. Show your worth and then name your price. Fresh winds carry sweet whispers to me. When i give myself to you without demanding any return i hereby escape its realm. When i steal and take and demand without offering, i don't abide its laws. I won't sell myself. When i sell myself i give into the Tyranny of the Equivalent. Let the sun rise. Love Sex Hope Faith. Let the sun rise.

There is a price on your head: 'you have to give in order to get!' Slogan of the welfare state and capitalist economy. I don't mind paying tax if it goes to schools and hospitals. But I mind being equal to my bankaccount or what I can pay. How much work I equal. I mind trading one kiss for another. Tyranny of the Equivalent: everything has price!




Overall Meaning

In the first verse of Lack's song 'Dawn', he is highlighting the fact that in our capitalist society, everything has a price and can be sold, including air - if it were possible to have the legal rights to it. He emphasizes the idea that we as a society are making everything and everyone the same, which inevitably leads to nothing being left that can't be sold. The Ethic of the Free Market is the idea that the more we buy things we don't necessarily need, the happier we will be with our lives. Lack refers to this as the tyranny of the equivalent, where everything has a price and our worth is determined by how much we can offer.


In the second verse, Lack talks about the idea of 'giving in order to get', which is a slogan often used in the welfare state and capitalist economy. He doesn't mind paying taxes as long as they go towards schools and hospitals, but he doesn't want to be equal to his bank account or what he can pay. He is challenging the notion of everything having a price and not wanting to trade one kiss for another just because they have the same price. Lack doesn't want to sell himself and give into the tyranny of the equivalent.


Overall, the song 'Dawn' is a critique of our capitalist society and the ideas that everything has a price, and worth is determined by how much one can offer. Lack is advocating for escaping this realm and not selling oneself to the tyranny of the equivalent.


Line by Line Meaning

If you could have the legal rights on air, be sure that it would have a price and a barcode.
Even the air we breathe would be sold if it could be legally owned and monetized.


Yeah, we're making everything and everyone the same. So that there'll be nothing left that can't be sold.
We are homogenizing everything to make it easier to commodify and sell, leaving nothing outside the realm of exchange.


The Ethic of the Free Market: so act that you hereby can make us believe that buying more and more things we don't need will make us happy with our lives.
The capitalist ideology is that consuming more goods is the key to happiness and fulfillment in life.


This is the Tyranny of the Equivalent. Show your worth and then name your price.
The system of equating everything with a price is oppressive and limits our self-worth to what we are able to sell.


Fresh winds carry sweet whispers to me.
Nature provides solace from the tyranny of the market.


When i give myself to you without demanding any return i hereby escape its realm.
By engaging in selfless acts of love, we can transcend the constraints of the market and participate in a truly free exchange.


When i steal and take and demand without offering, i don't abide its laws.
Acting selfishly and taking from others without giving back is a rejection of market values.


I won't sell myself. When i sell myself i give into the Tyranny of the Equivalent.
Maintaining our dignity and refusing to reduce ourselves to mere commodities is an act of defiance against oppressive market forces.


Let the sun rise. Love Sex Hope Faith. Let the sun rise.
Hope for a better future grounded in love and faith in humanity.




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