"Army Ants" as written by Dean Deleo, Robert Emile Deleo, Eric Kretz and Scott Richard Weiland....
You don't look but you kick me
You can't feel but you hit me
You can't deal with the way I pray
Why do we all have to look this way
I gotta heart I got blood feel pain
Time, time is not on my side
'Cause the way I am
Gotta gotta find gotta find the reason why
A woman ain't a man
You don't look but you kick me
You can't feel but you hit me
You can't deal with the way I pray
Why do you all have to think this way
I gotta heart I got blood feel pain
Fall in those single file lines
Like army ants
Yeah fall into those single file lines and complete the plan
You don't look but you kick me
You can't feel but you hit me
You can't deal with the way I pray
Why do we all have to think this way
I gotta heart I got blood feel pain
You don't look but you kick me
You can't deal with the way I pray
You can't feel but you hit me
You can't deal with the way I pray
Why do we all have to look this way
I gotta heart I got blood feel pain
Time, time is not on my side
'Cause the way I am
Gotta gotta find gotta find the reason why
A woman ain't a man
You don't look but you kick me
You can't feel but you hit me
You can't deal with the way I pray
Why do you all have to think this way
I gotta heart I got blood feel pain
Fall in those single file lines
Like army ants
Yeah fall into those single file lines and complete the plan
You don't look but you kick me
You can't feel but you hit me
You can't deal with the way I pray
Why do we all have to think this way
I gotta heart I got blood feel pain
You don't look but you kick me
You can't deal with the way I pray
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first off, it could be about weiland's disgust with the media making a big deal of his personal life, according to the first verse. he's saying he's only human, and do something better with your time
the refrain is most likely about drugs, seeing as drugs have a tendency to shorten life "time is not on my side/cause the way i am"
the last part is a double meaning that sums up the song beautifully. theres is definitely the reference to people as 'army ants' who follow everyone else and 'complete the as-of-yet-unnamed plan'. also, there is the desperation in weiland to go back to drugs, and the "lines of ants" can be seen as a drug reference, either lines of cocaine or herion tracks or whatever
a woman ain't a man),or lifestyle.They dont actually look at the person but only at how they live so they persecute them for being themselves(You don't look but you kick me you can't feel but you hit me).EVerything is always hard for those that are different (time is not on my side,because the way i am) because they dont "fall in those single file lines like army ants"