Look, now just because we can't seem to get along without breaking the rules,
doesn't mean we can't walk on the wild side.
It doesn't mean we can't talk on the dirty side...

This malnutrition you've forced upon everyone, is still eating away at your insides,
fill your mind with this idiosyncrasy,
fill your head with indigenous lies...
Shut up, get down, you're blowing our cover!!!!

A startling glance at the future and past,
in our games we hide, in our ways we surpass.
But in all of my life, I've found nothing... like this.
I walk down these roads, you drive them like highways.
Not a care in your mind if you're doing the right thing.
In all of my life, I've never been so ashamed to say that I was right.

Your contribution has hoarded the masses now, and the thieves have decided to hide.
Ante up! Cause the enemy's coming,
and get your gun cause I'm already reloading...
Arm yourselves!!


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    i may just be trying to find a meaning that isnt there...or maybe this is just me overanalyzing...but The Fall of Troy seem to like to make literary references in their songs, evident in songs like Hol[]y Tape. This song may be a reference to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer. The first chapter of Huck Finn is called "Tom Sawyer Waits"...and the lyrics seem to relate to the story of Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer. They were in a band of robbers, and found a large sum of gold, that was rationed off to giving them one dollar a day. Huck, being an 11 year old innocent child, may be seen as an annoyance to Tom...which would explain the part in the song...

    fill your head with indigenous lies... Shut up, get down, you're blowing our cover!!!!

    also, this phrase can be related to the story

    But in all of my life, i've found nothing... like this. I walk down these roads, you drive them like highways. Not a care in your mind if you'er doing the right thing.

    the improper grammar relates to the story. also, "found nothing...like this" could be talkin about the gold they found.

    personal interpretation...feedback appreciated

    killtomorrowon February 06, 2007   Link

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