Parquet Courts deliver a powerful critique of societal norms and the status quo through their lyrics, celebrating collective action and resistance. The song juxtaposes individual roles within a team sport framework, advocating for unity and fluidity over rigid structures. It challenges traditional power dynamics and highlights the importance of staying vigilant to dismantle oppressive institutions. The references to various historical and cultural figures underscore the message that true freedom comes from collaboration and breaking free from expectations. The final line, "And fuck Tom Brady," serves as a bold rejection of idolizing conventional success symbols, emphasizing the band's anti-establishment stance.
Total Football
Lyrics
We are conductors of sound, heat and energy
And I bet that you thought you had us figured out from the start
We are conduits of clear electricity
Now you're back on the pitch to take the apparatus apart
You're an ancient now
You're an ancient now
You're an ancient now
On your own
Rebels
Teachers
Strikers
Sweepers
Better
Protected
Whenever
Collected
We are troubled by your soft curiosity
But delighted to be anti everything you were taught
Are you put off by our footloose fluidity
Have your hurt caucasian feelings left you so distraught?
Are you quite done now?
Are you quite done now?
Are you quite done now?
Not at all
Workers
Authors
Poets
Stoppers
Power
Resembled
If we are
Assembled
Only through those
Who stay awake
Can an institution
Be dismantled
It is dishonest
Nay a sin
To stand for any anthem
That attempts to drown
Out the roar of oppression
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Swapping parts and roles
Is not acting, but
Rather
Emancipation
From expectation
Collectivism and autonomy
Are not mutually exclusive
Those who find discomfort
In your goals of liberation
Will be issued
No apology
And fuck Tom Brady
Writer(s): Andrew Savage, Austin Bradley Brown, Maxwell Savage, Sean Yeaton
Copyright(s): Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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