☝️ Key Points
- The song lyrics address the injustice between rich and poor people.
- It emphasizes that the poor have nothing while the rich live in abundance.
- The text uses a metaphor by comparing love to a tulip.
- Books allow us to escape reality and immerse ourselves in other worlds.
- The text shows that poor people get information from newspapers discarded by the rich.
Interpretation
The lyrics of the song "Tons of Ink" by
Nits address the injustice between rich and poor people. It states that rich men can buy things that poor people could make themselves. It emphasizes that the poor have nothing while the rich live in abundance. The text compares this to a tree falling to the ground and hitting a grape. The rich will crush the head of the poor, similar to how the grape is crushed.
The text also mentions books and how they allow us to sit next to anyone and take a journey across the ocean in a lounge chair. Books allow us to be a queen for an afternoon, until the husband shows up. This shows that books can offer us an escape from reality.
The chorus "Tons of ink make millions think" emphasizes that the amount of written material (ink) makes many people think. It is noted that this can also lead us to reflect on love and wonder if it is true love. A metaphor is also used by saying that our love is like a tulip.
The text ends by saying that only poor people have enough time to read newspapers that end up in the city's trash bins. This shows that the poor can obtain information in this way, while the rich can buy it.
Overall, the lyrics of the song "Tons of Ink" show the differences between rich and poor and how books and written materials can influence people's thought processes.