Flush The Fascists

Song Meaning

This track kicks off with a bizarre, almost Dadaist image: toothpaste dropped in the toilet. It sets a tone of deliberate messiness and rejection of the mundane. The narrator feels a sense of momentum, "on a roll," after obtaining "papers," suggesting a decisive action or a new phase. The act of flushing, performed by "Jean Genet" (a nod to the provocative writer), and the bizarre instruction to "scrub your Rembrandt in a Japanese bidet" amplify this feeling of radical cleansing and defiance against established norms. The core tension emerges in the second verse with the visceral imagery of pulling "rotten teeth." This is a metaphor for removing something deeply corrupted and beyond repair. The lyrics suggest a forceful purification, where truth is used as a tool to sanitize what cannot be "chewed." The phrase "foreign lesions in the throws of passion" hints at the messy, perhaps even painful, origins of these corruptions, but the ultimate directive is clear: reject compromise and expel the "fascists." The true power lies in the relentless repetition of the chorus: "Flush the fascists / Flush 'em down." This isn't a nuanced debate; it's a primal, urgent command. The simple, almost childish act of flushing becomes a potent symbol for discarding something vile and unwanted. The descent into "Down / Down" reinforces the finality and totality of this expulsion, leaving no room for ambiguity or return.