| Aesop Rock – Winners Take All Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Ratlines" are the shroudlines of a parachute. One of'ems messed up, so the parachute doesn't deploy right. He lands, busts his ankle and uses some chewing tobacco to get through the pain. "Sticks" are the units of paratroopers. The second verse, the important part is the "two forty Below-shit", for me. M240B(bravo) is the standard issue Medium Machine Gun of the Army(as compared to the 240G(Gulf) of the Marines). The "no semper fi" part confirms that the character is an Army soldier, not a Marine. I think this might be a "biography" of sorts of a friend Aesop has who was in the Army in Afghanistan AND Iraq(Iraq was much more screwed up). It remidns me of a buddy of mine's stories about Iraq and how fucked up being a soldier can get. Sometimes, you get shot at for hours on end by some asshole sniper, and you finally snap and order your team to open fire in the general direction of the sniper. Fuckit, maybe you get him, maybe not, but it relieves the stress. And I've also heard alot of people discuss the high they feel in combat. |
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