Does the shadow live forever?
Will this graveyard be the dance floor
for these corpses?
Will they be the first to fall
and dance the night away?

Why do we do this to ourselves?
We're buying every word they sell.

Starving loved ones
carry our guns
Take a look at what we've become.
Hungry nations
standing in the ashes of
our enemies remains.

Why do we do this to ourselves?
We're buying every word they sell.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
We're buying every word
That they sell.

So we dance the night away.
So we dance the night away.
So we dance the night away.
So we dance the night away.
The night away.

Why do we do this to ourselves?
We're buying every word they sell.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
We're buying every word
That they sell


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Divide and Conquer Lyrics as written by Vishal Maharaj Leroy Russell

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    General Comment

    first comment! w00t! o_0 I really like the guitar in this song and the line "so we dance the night away" which I think I'm gonna go do.

    XbasedonatruestoryXon June 12, 2004   Link
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    General Comment

    this song is really about how the US has become some country trying to be the best all the time and not being afraid to kill people to be the best. its also about how our country as become completely ignorant to what really goes on like in the line "why do we do this to ourselves? we're buying every word they sell"

    emerica69on June 30, 2004   Link
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    General Comment

    i think it could be about the way the people of america believe the bullshit that our government says. "we're buying every word they sell"

    musickid07on November 08, 2004   Link
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    General Comment

    It's politics. The government is fucked up but they try to pretend they can control what's going on. And then the people go ahead and believe them.

    Then more problems arise because no one is telling to government to fix things. It all sucks.

    xxletsxrockon July 19, 2006   Link
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    General Comment

    ANARCHY lol

    r0ck_r0xon May 20, 2007   Link
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    General Comment

    Yeah kind of a song about war hence the title, dance the night away is a way of saying they do nothing about it.

    Matthew15on January 17, 2008   Link
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    General Comment

    r0x, shut up. I hate how popular culture has distorted the message of anarchism.

    BashTheFashon January 19, 2008   Link
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    My Interpretation

    Easy on it previous posters. I'm clearly not the opinion this is about a certain topic in particular any of us could name. My interpretation is that it is either something outside of our knowledge or something more general.

    General as in we're meeting it every day. Let it be "relationship stuff", let it be "work related", let it be "people you have a private relationship to" and more ...

    Let it be any kind of "Are you buying what I try to sell although I know you know you're not buying?", let it be "Why am I doing this to myself?". Let it be "What lies deep within me I haven't yet lent an ear to?".

    Don't let yourself get distracted by the gun parts as "violence" of writers intention could be put into many different expressions. Of course the obvious is preferred to be presumed at first... "Hungry nations" I hear you say? Could be again a symbolic meaning referring to those in help you would not ask for the "Why" and just help instead; hungry, lonely, poor, homeless, yearning and more are just different expressions of what one could have in mind to describe a situation highly unpleasant.

    Fun fact: Before I looked up the lyrics I understood "Why do we TELL this to ourselves?" instead.

    dieaxtimwaon February 06, 2019   Link

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