Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Well I know
I could be just another stranger
But to you
I guess I'm just another fool
And you swear
You like to live your life in danger
Then you hide
Behind a wall of silly rules
Nobody thinks the way I do
I guess that nobody cares
Your head's so full of things
So set your mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules
Did you know?
That in the truth there's nothing stranger
I suppose
You think, I think I know it all
Nobody hears the things I say
I guess that nobody cares
My head's so full of things
I set my mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Can't you see they're nothing without you?
Empty heads full of fools
Now you see I'm breaking all the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Well I know
That you would love to go to Heaven
But you know
That you're just too afraid to die
And I know
That you would love to know the answers
But to you
The truth is just another lie
Nobody hears the things I say
I guess that nobody cares
My head's so full of things
I set my mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Can't you see they're nothing without you?
Empty heads full of fools
Now you see I'm breaking all the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Breakin' all the rules
(Why don't you tell to them?)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(Why don't you get it on?)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(All right)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(All right now)
Breakin' all the rules
([Incomprehensible])
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now let me tell you now)
Breakin' all the rules
(Let's go all crazy)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Yeah!
I could be just another stranger
But to you
I guess I'm just another fool
And you swear
You like to live your life in danger
Then you hide
Behind a wall of silly rules
Nobody thinks the way I do
I guess that nobody cares
Your head's so full of things
So set your mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules
Did you know?
That in the truth there's nothing stranger
I suppose
You think, I think I know it all
Nobody hears the things I say
I guess that nobody cares
My head's so full of things
I set my mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Can't you see they're nothing without you?
Empty heads full of fools
Now you see I'm breaking all the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Well I know
That you would love to go to Heaven
But you know
That you're just too afraid to die
And I know
That you would love to know the answers
But to you
The truth is just another lie
Nobody hears the things I say
I guess that nobody cares
My head's so full of things
I set my mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Can't you see they're nothing without you?
Empty heads full of fools
Now you see I'm breaking all the rules
Breakin' all the rules
Breakin' all the rules
(Why don't you tell to them?)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(Why don't you get it on?)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(All right)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(All right now)
Breakin' all the rules
([Incomprehensible])
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now let me tell you now)
Breakin' all the rules
(Let's go all crazy)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Yeah!
Lyrics submitted by ChildOfAcid
Breaking All The Rules Lyrics as written by John Terence Sinclair John Osbourne
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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