This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
Do you worry about your health
Do you watch it slowly change
And when you listen to yourself, does it feel like somebody else
And did you notice when you began to disappear
Was it slowly at first
Until there was nobody really there
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Will you remember me?
Did half of you pass away
What about the other half
Yeah what about the other half
Whatever!
We're all part of the same old bloody regime
With someone taking it out whilst you were putting it in
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Will you remember me?
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
From the here and now to eternity
Will you remember me?
Do you watch it slowly change
And when you listen to yourself, does it feel like somebody else
And did you notice when you began to disappear
Was it slowly at first
Until there was nobody really there
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Will you remember me?
Did half of you pass away
What about the other half
Yeah what about the other half
Whatever!
We're all part of the same old bloody regime
With someone taking it out whilst you were putting it in
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Will you remember me?
Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
From the here and now to eternity
Will you remember me?
Lyrics submitted by Brutin
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To me this reads more like a breakup song than a political screed. As near as I can figure, the singer in this case is taking the perspective of someone observing a bad break-up, being already in love with one of the parties.
So he's trying, on the one hand, to comfort this person: considerthe line, "Did half of you pass away?/Well, what about the other half?" in the context of a relationship, referring to one's significant other as their "better half." There is the usual consolation that "it happens to everyone," told a bit more poetically--"We're all part of the same old bloody regime" struck me initially as a variation on "All's fair in love and war," while "...someone taking it out, while you were putting it in" suggests that there will always be people less interested in giving love than in receiving it.
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