The Golden Age of Grotesque (song)
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- This article is about the song. For other uses, see The Golden Age of Grotesque (album) and The Golden Age of Grotesque (art exhibition).
"The Golden Age of Grotesque" is the sixth track on the 2003 release The Golden Age Of Grotesque.
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Appearances
Albums
Versions
- "The Golden Age of Grotesque" — Appears on The Golden Age of Grotesque.
Lyrics
All our monkeys have monkeys We drive our deathcrush diamond Jaguar limousines We're not fantastic motherfuckers, but we play them on TV It's A Dirty Word Reich, Say what you like. It's A Dirty Word Reich Say what you like. We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI And we aim to depress The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS This is the Golden Age of Grotesque We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI And we aim to depress The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS This is the Golden Age of Grotesque The devils are girls with Van Goh's missing ear You say what you want but filth is all that they hear And I've got the jigger To make all of you bigger, so "Ladies und Gentlemen...drop your pissroom bait And make sure you're not late, you tramps and lunatics." Here's A trick that's gonna make you Click. We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI And we aim to depress The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS This is the Golden Age of Grotesque We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI And we aim to depress The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS This is the Golden Age of Grotesque It's a Dirty Word Reich, Say what you like. It's A Dirty Word Reich, Say what you like. So my Bon Mots, Hit-boy Tommy Trons, Rowdy rowdies, Honey-fingered Goodbye Dolls: "Hellzapoppin, open your Third Nostril, Put on your black face and your god is gone." We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI And we aim to depress The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS This is the Golden Age of Grotesque We're the LOW ART GLOOMINATI And we aim to depress The SCABARET SACRILEGENDS This is the Golden Age of Grotesque We sing: La la la la lala la We sing: la lal la la la La la la la lala la We sing: La la la la la
Trivia
- Jaguar Cars, a British luxury car manufacturer, was previously known as SS Jaguar. The SS was dropped due to the usage by the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany.
- Low Art Gloominati is a reference to Illuminati, a Bavarian Enlightenment-era secret society.
- Scabaret Sacrilegeds is a crasis of cabaret legends with scab and sacrilegious.
- Van Goh is a mispelling of Vincent Willem Van Gogh, a Dutch painter well know for having cutted off part of his left ear.
- Open your third nostril refers to a dispregiative term for the communists created by Giovannino Guareschi, an Italian writer. The third nostril would be needed to expell cerebral matter to make room for party directives.
- Blackface is a style of theatrical makeup, used to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism.