If you want a car, you give the dealer money, and you are also giving them your word, albeit unspoken, that the money has value. Money is really based off of an agreed upon promise that everyone will continue to believe in its value. As a result, actors/athletes on TV represent the hope that money provides. The second level is that when money is present/available, he checks his time because he is anxious/focused on getting that money.Ĭould be a reference to seeing actors/athletes on TV money provides hope that people will one day be rich and famous, but very few reach that point. The first level here is that you (money) comes in the form of a check, and he is essentially being paid for his time. When he says "you" I believe he is in a dialogue with money/cause. I take the word "cause" to mean "money." There is the saying that "time = money,' hence the song title. The "they" here are mid- or low-income Republicans who have been sold on ideas that will actually financially harm them - such as measures that support the deregulation of big business - by making it appear to be an issue of morality. The cause itself isn't doing them any good, it's just their own determination to be obsessed with it that drives them on. Notice that it's never mentioned that people need the cause ITSELF - just that they need to be it, feel it, dream it, fuck it. Now I see the song's theme as using religious fervor as an analogy for right-wing politicians and media outlets selling political fervor. So yes, he is talking about religion, but also about something else.īased on the chorus, I had initially thought they were mocking the sudden ubiquity of "hipster" culture by likening it to blind religious faith. Kevin Drew mentions traits about religion to mock something else entirely. It would be incredibly pedestrian to skewer religion with analogies about. The references to religion can't be taken at face value. Here is a waiting room that wants to save your life
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