4 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
Facts of Life Lyrics
Six million ants crawling on a plate.
Six million ants crawling on a plate.
None of them give back as much as they take.
Six million ants crawling on a plate.
It doesn't mean you should just because you can.
It doesn't mean you should just because you can.
Like Abraham and Ishmael, fighting over sand.
It doesn't mean you should just because you can.
And that is a fact of life.
That is a fact of life.
Now some of us build and some of us teach.
Some of us build and some of us teach.
Some of us kill but some of us eat.
That is a fact of life.
That is a fact of life!
Nobody knows what happens when you die.
Nobody knows what happens when you die.
Believe what you want;
it doesn't mean you're right.
That is a fact of life!
That is a fact.
Six million ants crawling on a plate.
None of them give back as much as they take.
Six million ants crawling on a plate.
It doesn't mean you should just because you can.
Like Abraham and Ishmael, fighting over sand.
It doesn't mean you should just because you can.
That is a fact of life.
Some of us build and some of us teach.
Some of us kill but some of us eat.
That is a fact of life!
Nobody knows what happens when you die.
Believe what you want;
it doesn't mean you're right.
That is a fact.
Song Info
Submitted by
vroomfondell On Mar 21, 2006
More King Crimson
21st Century Schizoid Man
The Court of the Crimson King
I Talk To The Wind
Epitaph
Moonchild
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
"It doesn't mean you should just because you can. It doesn't mean you should just because you can. Like Abraham and Ishmael, fighting over sand. It doesn't mean you should just because you can."
Genius.
this song is badass as crap, along with all of 'the power to believe.' i think the lyrics are a little obvious..."nobody knows what happens when you die, believe what you want; it doesn't mean you're right"...good stuff
"Some of us kill but some of us eat." ???
I always thought it went like this: "Some of us kill WHAT some of us eat".
But my favorite line is "doesn't mean you should, just because you can". The truth doesn't require cool and elaborate phrases to be expressed, it's best when said like this - absolutely simple. :)
In addition to kristaps k's corrections, I believe he says six BILLION ants crawling on a plate, not six million.
6 billion ants of course being a reference to the ~6 billion people on the earth.