Here we are again with handguns for hearts
They had a master plan, wanted to tear us apart
Nothing to hold, all hope deleted
Our demise has been completed niw
Nowhere left to go but down
The flames of hell they give me hope I drown
In oceans of this tragic part of town
Where nothing's heard for miles but the sound
Of children wishing they were safely underground
We are the walking dead, we hold this ghost in our arms
We take our daily breath and thank our unlucky stars
Tried to get by on bread and water
Craving blood poured from the altar now
Not much left to do but drown
In flames of miscommunication down
Then out and off in search of someone proud
To translate what we truly dream about
As we lay in this bed thinking out loud
I'm screaming uncle, mercy me
And my broken telepathy
For I'm left with nothing but this bloodless riverbank
West Memphis please
I'm begging you, stop praying for me
I love this song. I've been following the West Memphis 3 story for a while now and this year there's a big gathering on July 23rd, Awareness Day, with bands playing shows all over the place and marches and things and petitions being presented... I think it might be their last chance.
As for the song, it fascinates me because I can't work out whose perspective its from, if indeed it is from just one perspective. The "they" as in "they had a master plan" seems to be the government, police and generally authorities who are anti-punk and anti-rock and wish the youth of today would take out the piercings and get their hair cut...
"we are the walking dead" seems to be from the perspective of the wm3 themselves, who are in a maximum security prison, one of them awaiting an upcoming death by lethal injection, but then it could mean the generation of rock/punk/metal music fans. The same goes for "stop praying for me" - it's like, saying "you can't change me, I am this person, I am in this community and culture" in a general sense but if the song is from the perspective of the wm3 then it is more an admission of lost hope - stop praying for us because we're a lost cause?
CORRECT LYRICS, TAKEN FROM ALBUM INLAY
Here we are again with handguns for hearts They had a master plan, wanted to tear us apart Nothing to hold, all hope deleted Our demise has been completed niw Nowhere left to go but down The flames of hell they give me hope I drown In oceans of this tragic part of town Where nothing's heard for miles but the sound Of children wishing they were safely underground We are the walking dead, we hold this ghost in our arms We take our daily breath and thank our unlucky stars Tried to get by on bread and water Craving blood poured from the altar now Not much left to do but drown In flames of miscommunication down Then out and off in search of someone proud To translate what we truly dream about As we lay in this bed thinking out loud I'm screaming uncle, mercy me And my broken telepathy For I'm left with nothing but this bloodless riverbank West Memphis please I'm begging you, stop praying for me
I love this song. I've been following the West Memphis 3 story for a while now and this year there's a big gathering on July 23rd, Awareness Day, with bands playing shows all over the place and marches and things and petitions being presented... I think it might be their last chance.
As for the song, it fascinates me because I can't work out whose perspective its from, if indeed it is from just one perspective. The "they" as in "they had a master plan" seems to be the government, police and generally authorities who are anti-punk and anti-rock and wish the youth of today would take out the piercings and get their hair cut...
"we are the walking dead" seems to be from the perspective of the wm3 themselves, who are in a maximum security prison, one of them awaiting an upcoming death by lethal injection, but then it could mean the generation of rock/punk/metal music fans. The same goes for "stop praying for me" - it's like, saying "you can't change me, I am this person, I am in this community and culture" in a general sense but if the song is from the perspective of the wm3 then it is more an admission of lost hope - stop praying for us because we're a lost cause?