Six chevy's in the front yard, a thousand empty coors, is all it takes to make me different/And it's like you never knew the effect it had on you/Pop another top. Today's lesson how to live with these cracked out mother fuckers/And it's like you never knew the effect they had on you/Mom's cookin' shit in bed, no angels for the living dead/Light the propane/Boiling the medicine, taste it is it done/I've only done it a couple times, so take this pill for me/Give your daddy a hand/Open the batteries like I showed you/Precious lithium I own you like you own this single wide lot.


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    here i am a year late on this discussion, but honestly i don't see how it goes any further than a couple cracked out parents living in a shithole with their old worthless cars and thousands of empty beers, and yeah they're making meth and forcing the child to help. this isn't unheard of. some kids grow up in that shit not knowing any better. but the song ends talking about making meth.. there's no 'fire,' or 'getting the drugs out and letting the kids die.' the part about the propane is just referring to cooking it up. so the song, split up, goes like this

    introduce setting, atmosphere, voice [a child]. introduce parents. point out how the child has to live with them. cracked out [living dead] mom is making drugs. dad forces the child to assist him in getting the ingredients out of the batteries [pill]. child is at the mercy of his cracked out parents, and means nothing more to them than their shitty beercan covered lot.

    that's it. that's the whole song. so tell me, where is there a burning trailor and retrieval of drugs and letting the kids burn? honestly the song is just about really shitty childhood as a result of drug addicted worthless parents. i've known a couple people who grew up in that environment and it effects them for the rest of their lives. it's not really fair. parents like that deserve to have the shit kicked out of them.

    jacob thmon July 08, 2005   Link

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