When there's a trap set up for you
In every corner of this town
And so you learn the only way to go is underground
When there's a trap set up for you
In every corner of your room
And so you learn the only way to go is through the roof

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground

And as we're crossing border after border
We realize that difference is none
It's underdogs who, and if you want it
You always have to make your own fun

And as the upperdog leisurely sighing
The local cultures are dying and dying
The programmed robots are buying and buying
And a psycho load of freaks they are still trying trying

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground

And as the boy scouts learn to read between the lines
The silver rabbits hop between their fathers' lies
And boy scouts ask "Where? Where do they go?"
They go to the country that they only know

Just like their meanings they lay between the lines
Between the borders their real countries hide
The strategigo's saw their advertise
Their strategy of being is one of in-your-face disguise

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground!

And when their own walls they will a-crumble,
And all the systems will be discumbumbled,
Around the stump of bigotry, our own [Ukrainian].

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, and underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof! Underground!

[Ukrainian]

Through the roof! And underground!
Through the roof! Underground!






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Through the Roof 'n' Underground Lyrics as written by Eugene Hutz Eliot Ferguson

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    It's about being an outcast in a world that changes, and that no matter where you go, this will always be a problem. People's neighborhoods and cultures disintegrate because of urban sprawl or any other reason. The only places to go is to the countryside, or...to go through the roof or underground, because people havent settled there yet.

    It's also about gypsies.

    I LOVE GOGOL!

    masharocks91on August 19, 2009   Link

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