Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
Never straight and narrow
I won't keep in time
Tend to burn the arrow out of the line
Been inclined to wander
Off the beaten track
That's where there's thunder and the wind shouts back
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
Got no use for routine
I shiver at the thought
Open skies are my scene
That's why I won't get caught
Refuse to bite the mantrap
Be led to set the snare
I love to have my sight capped everywhere
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
I have my license
It came with birth
For self reliance on this earth
You take the bullet
On which my name
Was etched upon it in your game
Day of independence
Stamped us like a brand
Round the necks of millions to the land
As the mighty eagle
I need room to breathe
Witness from the treadmill, I take my leave
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
Grinder
I won't keep in time
Tend to burn the arrow out of the line
Been inclined to wander
Off the beaten track
That's where there's thunder and the wind shouts back
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
Got no use for routine
I shiver at the thought
Open skies are my scene
That's why I won't get caught
Refuse to bite the mantrap
Be led to set the snare
I love to have my sight capped everywhere
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
I have my license
It came with birth
For self reliance on this earth
You take the bullet
On which my name
Was etched upon it in your game
Day of independence
Stamped us like a brand
Round the necks of millions to the land
As the mighty eagle
I need room to breathe
Witness from the treadmill, I take my leave
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
Grinder
Looking for meat
Grinder
Wants you to eat
Grinder
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Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
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This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
The word 'grinder' conjures up images of a metal/meat eating monster, a stripper giving an intense lap dance, or even the scene of school children falling into the mechanism in Pink Floyd's Film The Wall. Judas Priest's song Grinder seems to be about chasing the American dream & refusing to get caught up in the race race..."Witness from the treadmill"...& yeah, I know Judas Priest are British. "As the mighty eagle" "Day of independence" "Got no use for routine" But look closely & you can see the flames: "Never straight" "Tend to bend the arrow out of line" "...to wander off the beaten track" Grinder isn't as shockingly homoerotic as some other Priest songs: Eat Me Alive, Jawbreaker, Burnin' Up, United, Deal With the Devil. Halford's sexuality shouldn't matter, we should not be having this discussion at all. I like Judas Priest, & I'd go so far to say that The Hellion/Electric Eye is one of the Top 20 heavy metal songs ever written.
@Preying4war Good.