Just for starters, Serj is amazing. He was the lead singer of System of a Down (SOAD), which I can only describe as a punk-metal band, if that makes any sense.
Long story short, the band broke up and Serj started his own band. His music takes his anarchic roots from SOAD and takes it to a completely new level. His music took a turn for the crazy, but it's almost a good this. His songs sometimes end with a cacophony of voices and strings.
This video I think is so defiantly simple. The lyrics play, the borders lift from the page, until at the end the map is colorful and simple, with no lines breaking it up. The lyrics have a sort of hauntingly punk air to them:
"Borders are the gallows,
Of our collective national egos,
Subjective, lines in the sand,
In the water, separating everything."
It makes you think about what life would be like if we weren't all so worried about who's invading my area and who got in for free. Music ca be deep, contrary to the popular style today.
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