Meaning of song lyrics

Paul Epstein

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Jun 28, 2021, 3:51:50 PM6/28/21

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In Redbox's song, "For America", one of the lyrics is: "Every house should have
its hat on". But what does this mean?

For context, here's a youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LLfZzDYnQ&ab_channel=IKE66

Thank you,

Paul Epstein

Peter T. Daniels

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Jun 28, 2021, 4:29:00 PM6/28/21

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I ws curious what a song from a DVD rental company might be like,
so I looked at it, but when the words turned out to be mostly incomprehensible,
I asked Mr. Google to find them for me.

For America
Red Box

Deviate to contemplate
This audio visual opiate
One hundred years from now
Title fights and human rights
We're satellites, you're parasites
Hey yah ya
Now I've got to tell you that I've been down
Down so low that I bit the ground
Let's hear it from the heart of America
Ya da dee yeh yeh ee oh
Ya da dee yeh yeh ee ah
Ya da dee yeh ah
In Americ urelei urelei urelei urelei urelei urelei eh!
Urelei urelei urelei urelei urelei USA (for America)
Where's the peace and understanding?
Go drum, go dance, sound on sound
All this peace and understanding
Go drum, go dance, round and round
In America yeeooo ay da yeeooo ah
A pocket full of posies and cheap scented roses
Every house should have it's hat on
So in and out and round and round,
Up and down and lost and found
Hey…

Maybe having a hat on has returned to the social niceties, as
it was in movies of the 1930s to 1950s.

spains...@gmail.com

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Jun 28, 2021, 4:41:25 PM6/28/21

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Tom Jones famously sang "You can keep your hat on".

Ross Clark

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Jun 28, 2021, 4:59:51 PM6/28/21

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As did Randy Newman, who wrote the song. Could this be a "witty and
willfully perverse bit of erotic absurdity"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can_Leave_Your_Hat_On

Tony Cooper

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Jun 28, 2021, 5:10:26 PM6/28/21

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You are questioning the meaning of only one line of this song?
https://genius.com/Redbox-for-america-lyrics

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Tony Cooper Orlando Florida

Mack A. Damia

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Jun 28, 2021, 6:43:47 PM6/28/21

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On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:51:48 -0700 (PDT), Paul Epstein
<peps...@gmail.com> wrote:

Red Box. British band.

(Simon Toulson-Clarke formed his first band aged thirteen at Harrow
School with friend Paddy Talbo) - Wiki

I was thinking of the "old schools" with their "houses". Didn't each
house have a distinctive hat?

Harrow:
https://www.harrowschool.org.uk/boarding/the-houses

Mack A. Damia

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Jun 28, 2021, 6:59:56 PM6/28/21

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"Hats are a Harrow icon"

Harrovians roving the streets of Harrow can be quickly identified by
their uniforms. The most common is the ‘day’ uniform, which boys wear
to classes. It consists of a white shirt, black tie, ‘greyers’, black
shoes, a ‘bluer’ and the classic Harrow hat. Optional additions
include a blue jumper, a dark blue woolen overcoat and the school
blue-and-white scarf. Boys are required to doff their hats when they
see a ‘beak’, and anyone spotted not wearing theirs in the streets
faces punishment.

Boys are punished for not wearing their Harrow hats when they're
outside the school.

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/the-harrow-school-traditions-you-need-to-know/

Lewis

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Jun 28, 2021, 8:01:45 PM6/28/21

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Not to even mention that asking the meaning of poetry of lyrics is a
fool's errand, at best.

The only proper response to "what does that mean" is to repeat the
verse.

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I was good and deleted the "You *&;#$ing moron" before posting aren't
you proud of me?

Sam Plusnet

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Jun 28, 2021, 9:23:00 PM6/28/21

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With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means
At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what's true

--
Sam Plusnet
Wales, UK