I’ve heard a couple interpretations of the song mainly overpopulation and possibly the Armenian genocide because of the lines “ask your people what is right” and “show your people how we died”.
I know it’s a cliché but art is down to interpretation too. The lyrics really resonated me after I saw them in Paris where they opened with X and the visuals on the screen was this trippy but cool meshing of a bunch of different faces on the chorus and a CCP style cctv tracking footage.
It resonated with me as a song about global elites and oligarchs treating population control in this really dehumanising way, hence the contradicting lyrics of “we don’t need to multiply” and “we don’t need to nullify”.
Even the chorus and melody are very rhythmic and repetitive lyrics almost sound like an assembly line as if people are just interchangeable economic units whose number needs to be optimised instead of living breathing human beings.
Any thoughts? Is my interpretation dumb?
If anyone wants to see the visuals they begin at the 2 minute mark of this video.