Expressing though the arts

I'm a fan of music by Nine Inch Nails, was listening to their song 'The Hand That Feeds' today and felt that the lyrics have a powerful message on well the way the world is, I really want to talk about how I feel on a lot of issues on the world but I find it hard to put it all in to words, so I guess I feel by sharing things like this I can get my point across.
I think in a lot of ways that's what a lot of people in music or in the arts are trying to do, get their point across best they can.

NINE INCH NAILS
The Hand That Feeds

You're keeping in step
In the line
Got your chin held high and you feel just fine
Because you do
What you're told
But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?

What if this whole crusade's
A charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood
On which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?

So naive
I keep holding on to what I want to believe
I can see
But I keep holding on and on and on and on

I'm an artist myself and now and then I do try to express how I feel about things through my art.


I drew this picture (please click on it to view the whole thing plus the short passage I added to it) when the war started in Iraq and I guess it expresses in a way my feelings at the time upon the whole thing and how I couldn't understand why things like this were happening.

This picture I created a few years later when I guess I realised a few more things about how we're puppeted by the media and of course by the real power behind the other puppets that are our 'leaders'.