Results for “greed and moral bankruptcy”

Songs

King Crimson

This opening track sets a nightmarish, distorted portrait of modern civilization against a savage instrumental attack, using the…

dehumanization war and atrocity technological/medical horror

Black Sabbath

This is Black Sabbath's Dio-era title track, a slow-building anthem that treats existence as a rigged carousel between opposing…

moral duality illusion vs. reality exploitation of belief

The Band

A narrator in a fading, mob-shadowed Atlantic City weighs a desperate financial choice against a fragile romantic vow, using…

economic desperation moral compromise decay and renewal

Townes Van Zandt

A ballad about a Mexican bandit's death and the shadowy figure who may have betrayed him, told with the flat affect of folklore…

betrayal and complicity myth-making versus truth exile and diminishment

D'Angelo

A prayer-like meditation on trying to hold steady inside collapse, written for a video game about the death of the American…

endurance amid chaos spiritual uncertainty frontier mythology and its end

Joan Baez

Baez's rendition of this traditional folk ballad tells the story of a woman ruined by a New Orleans house of ill repute, framing…

ruin and moral downfall warning and cautionary storytelling regret

Erykah Badu

A meditation on getting lost, both literally and existentially, that refuses to resolve into a tidy moral. Badu treats…

self-doubt and self-trust fate versus choice spiritual wandering