A History of Bad Men

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN

Who cares what it means, its a sweet efing song.

This is the correct version (as far as I can tell) in the correct order:

Wake up, you never looked so glum Tell me how do you know they can't hear us coming It's easy for me, I got a head start running away Keep up for your disease spread quick so How did you learn to be sick so Cunning It's easy to sing, but you just keep on humming along Did you hear that? I got a real bad feeling How many more do you suppose they're keeping? Don't make a sound they're not dead, just sleeping.

Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting

Wake up, you never looked so glum Tell me how do you know they can't hear us coming? It's easy for me, I got a head start running away Keep up for your disease spread quick so How did you learned to be sick so cunning It's easy to sing, but you just keep on humming along Did you hear that? I got a real bad feeling How many more do you suppose thier keeping Don't make a sound, they're not dead, just sleeping.

Basically, it's about people who inspire movements/styles/fashions, etc. They seem so important, dangerous, edgy and new at the time, but, most of the time, it just fades away, covered up by the next temporary fad. No matter how important and famous it seems at the time, there's always another half-baked idea ready to take it's place.

This song is about spreading STDs lol. It’s not about dying fads. He’s singing about sleeping with woman knowing the consequences of doing so, leaving them with an STD. The lyrics on this are not right.

I’m thinking zombies.

Dire, dire, dire, is fleeding (6x)

Wake up, you never looked so glum Tell me how will we know they can't hear us comming? It's easy for me I got a headstart running away Keep up or your disease spread quick So how did you learn to be sick so cunning It's easy to see but you just keep on loving alone Did you ever, I got a real bad feeling How many moles do you suppose they're keeping? Don't make a sound they're not dead, just sleeping

I'm hearing "Did you hear that? I gotta real bad feeling..."

"It's easy to sing but you just keep on humming along..." This might actually have a meaning. I've grown accustom to listening to this song accompanied by a video of clips from Sin City, it's a good pair for the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk9L99nrmYc This song, to me, sounds like an action movie. A good one though, with just a couple cheesy special movie effects. Maybe about a hitman who goes to kill someone and makes a scene out of it, ends up framing the man who hired him, 'coz he did something to him a long time ago, but with some sick twist at the end. I'm just making shit up now. I love the melvins, they never cease to amaze me.

Careful, this is a psychadelic song, so each lyric is very much loaded with contemplations about the universe itself. \r\n\r\n-------\r\nWake up, you never looked so glum\r\nTell me how do you know they can\'t hear us coming\r\nIt\'s easy for me, I got a head start running away\r\nKeep up for your disease spread quick so\r\nHow did you learn to be sick so\r\nCunning\r\nIt\'s easy to sing, but you just keep on humming along\r\nDid you hear that?\r\nI got a real bad feeling\r\nHow many more do you suppose they\'re keeping?\r\nDon\'t make a sound they\'re not dead, just sleeping.\r\n------\r\n\r\nWake up, it\'s a new day, a new dollar. The same old same old. And it\'s depressing.\r\n\r\nHow do you know that others don\'t know how you\'re feeling? Why should they care?\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy for me to flee social obligations, because I saw it early. But I\'m still a failure.\r\n\r\nMisery loves company, your disease spreads quick.\r\n\r\nHow did you learn to be sick, so cunning? Or rather, how did you learn to be so cunning... was it because you\'re just sick in the head?\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy to succeed and do more if you only just realize it, but instead you just keep fulfilling the minimal responsibilities that come with life, or your job, or whatever it happens to be.\r\n\r\nDid you hear that? Do you see into your future? Do you have a bad feeling?\r\n\r\nHow many more misfortunes do you suppose the mischievous elements of fate are keeping? \r\n\r\nDon\'t jinx yourself. The people who noticed you before and tried to encourage you aren\'t dead. They\'re just \'sleeping\'. If you prove yourself, they will wake up again, and engage you again. But you have to be careful, because they want something from you, and you have to have a clear enough head to recognize whether or not you should give it to them.\r\n\r\n-----\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\n-----\r\n\r\nCareful with your emotions, or you may turn evil. It\'s fleeting. So is reality itself.\r\n\r\n-----\r\n\r\n