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| State Radio – Keepsake Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I talked to a woman who knew Chad from childhood who said that he wrote this song for friends of his whose son commit suicide. She said the story was well known in their town. Such a sad and gorgeous song. |
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| State Radio – Keepsake Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I hear that line as "one gonna roll me down ahead of bullets in my wake," meaning one is going to knock me down just in time to get me out of the way of bullets that are coming at me. Just a though. |
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| State Radio – Gang of Thieves Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The U.S. invades countries saying it is "freeing" them, then kills thousands and thousands of people and starts stealing everything in sight to make big profit opportunities for big companies. That's why the U.S. is the "evil liberator". I don't think this is just about Iraq, because Chad has shown that he's very knowledgable about the fact that our military is doing the same thing in so many other places also. This is imperialism, and the big companies are the Gang of Thieves. And I would make a slight edit to what previous commenters have said: "We've got bombs and they've got barrels of gasoline" means the U.S. has bombs which it will use to take the barrels of gasoline away from the country we're invading (and that part does largely mean Iraq, but also Kuwait, and also Afghanistan, because the point of the invasion of Afghanistan is to attempt to secure a route for a pipeline). Love to State Radio and all you State Radio fans.
P.S. Anybody have a thought on what the "And after all it was only you and me" part means? |
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| State Radio – Unfourtunates Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Pparenti35 is right. And a couple of weeks ago the West Memphis Three were finally released -- I happened to come across it in the paper, and I recognized it as the story from Unfortunates. |
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| Dispatch – Even Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The lyrics written in the CD liner start with "Come now to the edge of the room" not edge of the road. Everything else is right. Amazing song -- one of my favorite by Dispatch, or by anyone. |
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| Dispatch – Mission Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"We are not sold on what we have seen" meaning we're not convinced by the bs, and we're not buying into it. |
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| Dispatch – Broken American Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The shipping off to war theme seems possible, with those references to telling them what to fight for and winning the west, and the reference to there not being any jobs could be why the singer ended up in the military. But I think it may be about immigrants getting deported, because he says he's going "back to my sweet land". |
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