In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Makes you feel tough
Makes you think you're a badass
Like you're part of something
Like you are what you dress
And cool too
Part of the baddest crew
Where opression seems to be wrong
unless its fu**ing used by you
The skins and nazis who are just the fu**ing same
violence and opression
under a diffrent name.
Beating up on a black or a jew
just beating up on gays
when i try and talk to you I get smaked across the face
and I say
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Original skins werent violent
but they stood against mistreatment
Shaved their heads and they wore boots too
make a political statement
but wuth their minds and not their fists
they started a fu**ing wave
Its been TAKEN
and ALTERED
into a violent gang of
The skins and nazis who are just the fu**ing same
violence and opression
under a diffrent name.
Beating up on a black or a jew
just beating up on gays
when i try and talk to you I get smaked across the fu**ing face
and I say
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Ive stereotyped and im sorry
to the true skinhead
but some of your boys have start to give you a bad name
punx and skinz must unite again
we'll get fu**ing pissed
We'll fight the realy enemy with our minds we'll put down our fists and we'll say
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
(keps on saying Oi! skinhead until the end of the song)
Makes you think you're a badass
Like you're part of something
Like you are what you dress
And cool too
Part of the baddest crew
Where opression seems to be wrong
unless its fu**ing used by you
The skins and nazis who are just the fu**ing same
violence and opression
under a diffrent name.
Beating up on a black or a jew
just beating up on gays
when i try and talk to you I get smaked across the face
and I say
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Original skins werent violent
but they stood against mistreatment
Shaved their heads and they wore boots too
make a political statement
but wuth their minds and not their fists
they started a fu**ing wave
Its been TAKEN
and ALTERED
into a violent gang of
The skins and nazis who are just the fu**ing same
violence and opression
under a diffrent name.
Beating up on a black or a jew
just beating up on gays
when i try and talk to you I get smaked across the fu**ing face
and I say
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Ive stereotyped and im sorry
to the true skinhead
but some of your boys have start to give you a bad name
punx and skinz must unite again
we'll get fu**ing pissed
We'll fight the realy enemy with our minds we'll put down our fists and we'll say
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
Oi! Oi!
Oi! Skinhead
(keps on saying Oi! skinhead until the end of the song)
Lyrics submitted by fan_of_AnTi-FLaG
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