This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
Woke up in the evening
To the sound of screaming
Through the walls it was bleeding
All over me
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Grown tired of the show-coast
And then as we toast
There are all zeros
Around here
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's leave it here
Let's leave it here
Woke up in the evening
To the sound of screaming
Through the walls it was bleeding
All over me
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's leave it here
Let's leave it here
To the sound of screaming
Through the walls it was bleeding
All over me
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Grown tired of the show-coast
And then as we toast
There are all zeros
Around here
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's leave it here
Let's leave it here
Woke up in the evening
To the sound of screaming
Through the walls it was bleeding
All over me
Untied and weightless
Unconscious as we cross
The international dateline
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's end it here
Let's leave it here
Let's leave it here
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I have a MUCH more literal interpretation culled from an actual experience of mine: I was flying from San Francisco to Hong Kong and somewhere over Japan we hit a wind-sheer and dropped about 200 feet. I mean a FREE FALL of 200 feet, everything in the cabin was just floating for a few second. The flight attendants, used to this, all dropped into a ball as if chroeographed. I was NOT wearing my seat belt and so was "untied and weightless", asleep but "woke up to the sound of screaming", and ABSOLUTELY SURE this was it!!! You know, battening down the hatches, thinking of my wife back home, life flashing before my eyes, sure that I was going to "end it here". But the wings suddenly found a handle and EVERYTHING that was floating suddenly crashed to the ground. This song ALWAYS reminds me of that experience.