Lyric discussion by taking_backmonday 

it's not political at all. Love challenged freedom to a fist fight.. the subject fell in love with a girl. Doing so, he was giving up some of his freedom. It's a battle between falling in love and keeping freedom.

"No one was prepared for what would happen on that baseball diamond when love reached beneath her plaid jumper, pulled out a switch blade and drove it……directly through the heart of st angelis" means, when the songwriter (presumably George) fell in love, he was not expecting what would happen to his freedom. Taken by surprise.

any notion of self government was left bleeding on the pitchers mound means that in the end, if you choose Love, your Freedom dies.

anyway, these are my thoughts. I love alexisonfire. taking_backmonday@hotmail.com

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