My interpretation of the chorus - this song being about how people are happily lulled into not thinking about the unpleasant truth about war by willfully ignoring what is really happening and being satisfied with what the media tells them...
"Who needs sleep when we've got love?"
(why ignore the media when they make you feel important and of course, everybody loves America, right?)
"Who needs keys when we've got clubs?"
(why try to unlock doors like everyone else when we can just bust them down with force)
"Who needs please when we've got guns?"
(why ask when we have the power to just take things)
"Who needs peace when we've gone above?"
(why should we care about world peace when heaven is our final destination)
"But beyond where we should have gone?"
(when really we should go to hell for what we've been doing)
"We went beyond where we should have gone"
(we have overstretched ourselves by fighting on two fronts)
My interpretation of the chorus - this song being about how people are happily lulled into not thinking about the unpleasant truth about war by willfully ignoring what is really happening and being satisfied with what the media tells them...
"Who needs sleep when we've got love?" (why ignore the media when they make you feel important and of course, everybody loves America, right?) "Who needs keys when we've got clubs?" (why try to unlock doors like everyone else when we can just bust them down with force) "Who needs please when we've got guns?" (why ask when we have the power to just take things) "Who needs peace when we've gone above?" (why should we care about world peace when heaven is our final destination) "But beyond where we should have gone?" (when really we should go to hell for what we've been doing) "We went beyond where we should have gone" (we have overstretched ourselves by fighting on two fronts)