Eminem - Mosh

Eminem's Mosh is in short a masterpiece of an anti-Bush anarchist rap song by the ingenious rapper. To give a brief synopsis, Mosh is about the citizens of the United States of America under the reign of President George W. Bush, and how his decisions and ways angered and aroused hatred towards him; on the blood he has on his hands and the people who have suffered and toiled through during his 8 years of presidency. Mosh describes the uprising and rebellion of the anti-Bush Americans, and how they pinpoint Bush's apparent failures and how they intend to stage a revolution.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all...
It feels so good to be back.

I scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel, re-energise and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind
I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight, you take it as I'ma whip someone's ___
If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task
And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft
Slash entrepreneur who has helped launch a few more rap acts
Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mr. Kisses ___ _____, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back

[Chorus:]
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)

All the people up top on the side and the middle
Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black
Don't matter what colour, all that matters we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yeah, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, ____ Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)

[Chorus:]
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)

Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryin t' tell us something,
Maybe this is God just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...
Ten million people, are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach Al-Qaeda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
'Cause I told you to fight.

[Chorus:]
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)

And as we proceed,
To mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements, if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator
Do you guy's hear us...hear us...[laughing] (Hailie)

The song begins ironically with the Pledge of the United States of America. Eminem used the school children's voices to record the first part, to send a message to the President that even children are able to understand the basic requirements and the ideal American; whilst Bush, as the role model and the President, appeared to the Americans that he has ignored "justice for all" by sending soldiers to the Middle East to war by having no purpose of doing so. Bush was robbing the soldiers' lives and dignity. The monochrome section from 0:10 to 0:15 showed the bleak situation then from 2001 to 2008, in stark contrast to the lively souls of the schoolchildren in the classroom. Notice that the teacher in a suit (perhaps Eminem himself) has his book upside down at 0:17; does it suggest that the American has already lost faith in Bush and the US government?

After the scene in the classroom, the video shifts its focus to Eminem's studio apartment, where he sticks newspaper clippings... of Bush's actions? "[S]crutinise every word" shows that the narrator (Eminem) digests and "memorises" every thing the tabloids and newspapers report about the Iraq War at the start of the 21st Century. The narrator highlights the after effects and consequences of the soldiers sent to fight in Iraq; look closely at 0:31 and you can see the soldiers having brain damage and an appalling thousands of deaths when they were in the war. "Exercise my right to express" implies the Freedom of Speech legacy in the United States, whereby anyone has the right to speak up and give his opinions freely, with no implications whatsoever. The narrator expresses his urge to condemn and criticise the Bush government of being unsuitable for their level of authority.