| Jimmy Eat World – Higher Devotion Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think flackyak is right. The narrator seems to be the stereotypical "Y u no read my mind?" self-absorbed girlfriend. | |
| Thrice – Broken Lungs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm not sure where everyone is getting the conspiracy theory idea from. "The story" he refers to is probably the story that Iraq had WMDs. "Are we fools and cowards all/To let them cover up their lies" is about the lies and the foolish and cowardly decisions that lead to the Iraq invasion. I think that the lines "'Cause we all watched the buildings fall/And watched the scales fall from our eyes" are meant to have a bit of time in between them. Everyone watched the buildings fall, so they were spurred to action. But they were spurred to the wrong action, and then it was revealed that the government exploited the event to bring about that action so the scales fell from their eyes. It doesn't have to be about a 9/11 conspiracy or Afghanistan at all, just about the very well-established fact that there were forged documents and outright lies used to support the invasion of Iraq in the aftermath of 9/11. It goes deeper, of course. This is a pattern that can be seen throughout human history; for thousands of years governments and churches have controlled the masses with similar tactics. |
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