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.
I cannot grasp this black psychology
My cage's walls are closing in on me
The rage that surfaces is not my soul
It's like a devil taking all control
The violence lives in me and will not leave
Like a magician with pain up his sleeve
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father time
Delves in twisted sexuality
Substance abuse and immorality
A stark obsession no one else would know
Questions unanswered, how far can this go
A wall of torment, my blood boiling
To break this shell and do what's so obscene
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father time
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father time
My cage's walls are closing in on me
The rage that surfaces is not my soul
It's like a devil taking all control
The violence lives in me and will not leave
Like a magician with pain up his sleeve
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father time
Delves in twisted sexuality
Substance abuse and immorality
A stark obsession no one else would know
Questions unanswered, how far can this go
A wall of torment, my blood boiling
To break this shell and do what's so obscene
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father time
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father
The sight of God is to unfold
Memories untold
For every poem's a rhyme
The joke is father time
Lyrics submitted by BludgeonedExistence
Turk Lyrics as written by Jeff Matz Desmond Kensel
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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this song is named after that guy from Scrubs. Also, its written from his perspective. Its about his twisted sexuality and desire fro Doctor Cox.
The black guy is Turk. <br /> <br /> You are talking about JD, who want's Dr. Cox as a role model, with his twisted sexuality.<br /> <br /> Nevertheless, awesome song!
Sounds like he's tired of living normally and urgently just wants to do lots of drugs and engage in some crazy S & M sex. I don't get the chorus though... unless god is her pussy.
And it's "taking all control", "lives in me ad will not leave", "Like a magician", Substance abuse and "immorality", "To break this shell" I think it's "one delves in twisted sexuality"
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This song is my fave offa Death Is This Communion. Hell, It's playin' right now, and I just know it's gonna be stuck in my head all day at work.
cant wait to see these fuckers in december