Run, run 'til you drop
Hide, everyone knows
We all trade in never-befores
Selling out for the score

Prey, sqeal when you're caught
Cry, it's not my fault
Time to trade in never-befores
Selling out for the score

It seems you prophesized
All of this would end
Were you burned away
When the sun rose again?

Hate, long wearing thin
Negative, all you've been
Time to trade in never-befores
Selling out for the score

It seems you prophesized
All of this would end
Were you burned away
When the sun rose again?


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    c0de7, it seems more likely that it would be "prey" as he is saying that when you become prey to the predators (people trying to screw you over), you squeal when you are caught.

    I see this song as a mourning to the inevitable loss of morals that we all face. "We all trade in never-befores, selling out for the score" suggests trading in the high morals that we all possess as children to do the things that most people fall victim to, ie - losing your virginity, smoking, scoring drugs, etc. These are the never-befores that we haven't tried, and we sell out by giving up our sense of who we are and what we stand for to try something new.

    Looking at the first word of lines from the verses, it goes "Run, hide, prey, cry, hate, negative." As in, you 'run' and 'hide' from these choices, but when you eventually fall 'prey' to the vices, you will 'cry'. It will lead to 'hate' toward yourself and those who put you up to it, and over time, people become very 'negative' through all of their bad experiences.

    "It seems you prophesized all of this would end. Were you burned away when the sun rose again?" addresses the fact that when we look to the world, we see the pain and corruption and always think, "it won't be me." Our fate to fall like everyone else was prophesized as we see everyone fall before us. And then he asks if it would kill you to be just another victim to the loss of morals, which is as common and predictable as the sun rising everyday.

    At least, that is my take on it.

    Wayward Seanon April 21, 2010   Link

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