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.
Damaged lives
With two evil eyes they stare at me
Stone cold stupidity
Whores of a better tomorrow?
Liquid babe on their tongues
Sick become ill
Brats and rats everywhere
Am I supposed to owe you for this fucked up shit?
Disturbing the priest
The way I have preached in my free speech of choice
Raging pitbulls of the leach
Violators on ground zero
Impressing, depressing
Role model rebel gets burned
This touch of hysteria
Closing my cage to total solitude
Hail Mary full of shit
Deep within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
Within the innocence and purity
Mary's raising the dead
Spawn of satan marches into glory
As Mary's raising the dead
Close within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
[Solo]
No bright light, the infinity is absolute black
A hard day's pain, long days of nightmare fades
A lot of fuckin' turbulence, emotions no sweet
A volcanic promotion cutting my throat wide open
[Solo]
The dog was looking down, infesting my nest
I pleaded to be left alone, without you and him
I did my thing but the retards were eating me alive
Dizzy and confused I marched into darkness
[Solo]
Slave to the system
Longing for deaths hand
Funeral rebirth
You sons of bitches I will travel in your minds
You don't know what sorrows you've enclosed
You choked me, now I choke you, feel it coming bitch
Yeah, face the mirror you accident of god, ghost of me
Get ready to run downhill, I'll be waiting for you
Deep within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
Within the innocence and purity
Mary's raising the dead
Spawn of satan marches into glory
As Mary's raising the dead
Close within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
With two evil eyes they stare at me
Stone cold stupidity
Whores of a better tomorrow?
Liquid babe on their tongues
Sick become ill
Brats and rats everywhere
Am I supposed to owe you for this fucked up shit?
Disturbing the priest
The way I have preached in my free speech of choice
Raging pitbulls of the leach
Violators on ground zero
Impressing, depressing
Role model rebel gets burned
This touch of hysteria
Closing my cage to total solitude
Hail Mary full of shit
Deep within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
Within the innocence and purity
Mary's raising the dead
Spawn of satan marches into glory
As Mary's raising the dead
Close within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
[Solo]
No bright light, the infinity is absolute black
A hard day's pain, long days of nightmare fades
A lot of fuckin' turbulence, emotions no sweet
A volcanic promotion cutting my throat wide open
[Solo]
The dog was looking down, infesting my nest
I pleaded to be left alone, without you and him
I did my thing but the retards were eating me alive
Dizzy and confused I marched into darkness
[Solo]
Slave to the system
Longing for deaths hand
Funeral rebirth
You sons of bitches I will travel in your minds
You don't know what sorrows you've enclosed
You choked me, now I choke you, feel it coming bitch
Yeah, face the mirror you accident of god, ghost of me
Get ready to run downhill, I'll be waiting for you
Deep within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
Within the innocence and purity
Mary's raising the dead
Spawn of satan marches into glory
As Mary's raising the dead
Close within the circle of life
Mary's raising the dead
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