It’s about a group of depraved kids living in a decaying society. As they grow up, their twisted “games” begin causing harm to the rest of society. It also seems that through the years, one of their friends died as a result of their carelessness, or maybe police brutality (“they let us go but we lost one”). What the song is saying is that society’s nature is self-sustaining; the kids are influenced by the surrounding calamity, and eventually become the ones causing it, even for themselves. What this could mean in relation to the title is that we should all embrace the inner youthful optimism in ourselves more, because if we try to be muscle-heads, it might just rob children of their lives.
It’s about a group of depraved kids living in a decaying society. As they grow up, their twisted “games” begin causing harm to the rest of society. It also seems that through the years, one of their friends died as a result of their carelessness, or maybe police brutality (“they let us go but we lost one”). What the song is saying is that society’s nature is self-sustaining; the kids are influenced by the surrounding calamity, and eventually become the ones causing it, even for themselves. What this could mean in relation to the title is that we should all embrace the inner youthful optimism in ourselves more, because if we try to be muscle-heads, it might just rob children of their lives.