Your take on the song is interesting, but in my view the lyrics are a series of rants...sick and tired, prayers never get answered, gods (or the powers that be) ignore us, no light at the end of the tunnel, darkness everywhere etc.
The citizens have bottled up their anger for so long and are now letting Gotham know.
As the song ends they reiterate (more powerfully) that they are as 'mad as hell' and then...the Gothamites fightback! I envisage during and at the end of this scene, villains/goons being captured, beat up etc.
> Your demo, your lyrics... I know you didn't give that much
> context, but to me the Gods lines make it sound like the
> commissioner's speech didn't work. That is, the crowd are
> definitely Mad As Hell but still sound 100% devoted to
> being passive about taking any form of direct action
> outside of yelling and stomping.
>
> It's like
>
> Gordon: "The city does nothing for you! I want you to get
> mad at the city! Break out of that shell of fear you've
> enclosed yourselves in, and Demand that you are treated
> like something more than disposable objects!".
>
> Crowd: "Ok! We're mad at.... Gods!! We're gonna angrily
> philosophise at theological entities! We'll boldly....
> complain a bit and defer our problems away to someone
> else, just like we did when nothing happened!"
>
> Gordon: "oh hey, were you guys listening?"
>
> I mean, I know it fits the tune and everything, but it
> seems more of a time to rise up and fire a rocket down
> that tunnel to create a light at the end of it yourselves.
> Each citizen providing a drop of action to create a tidal
> wave. And nothing can go wrong with summoning a tidal wave
> to a city, eh? :P
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