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Rebuild.
Cannot close our eyes.
Construction paper traffic...corner office destruction.
The cityscape burns brighter by the hour.
Clock tower: bring us all down.
Marching like ants to the foundation of a higher form.
Trash. Capped and smothered. Trash bag. Trash hat.
Wrinkle-free clients of doom.
Feed me fear. (Informal gluttony)
Construction paper lawns...force-fed attention grabber...
when will you learn.
First come first serve.
The all you can eat trumpet...playing the tunes of our death.
Breathe......now blow. Now blow.
Let it be heard.
The preacher's talent is going through the airwaves.
(I need to be led in the right direction. Set up the bumpers...
running in the gutter)
The little kids taught me well...
but I wonder why they don't listen anymore.
(It's a television nightmare).
Eat and watch, eat eat eat...what they feed.
Corner office tubes...give me the best view in the hut.
Feed me fear. (Informal gluttony)
Cannot close our eyes.
The cityscape burns brighter by the hour.
Clock tower: bring us all down.
Marching like ants to the foundation of a higher form.
Trash. Capped and smothered. Trash bag. Trash hat.
Wrinkle-free clients of doom.
when will you learn.
First come first serve.
The all you can eat trumpet...playing the tunes of our death.
Breathe......now blow. Now blow.
(I need to be led in the right direction. Set up the bumpers...
running in the gutter)
The little kids taught me well...
but I wonder why they don't listen anymore.
(It's a television nightmare).
Eat and watch, eat eat eat...what they feed.
Corner office tubes...give me the best view in the hut.
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Submitted by
shevanel On Sep 18, 2007
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"This song is about rebuilding our lives as individuals and as an entire society.
Some themes in the song:
“Construction paper traffic”: the idea of building cities with paper… trying to find a child like mood in all the bullshit we create as adults.
“Clock tower”: living our lives by a 9 to 5 mindset… constant routines.
“Wrinkle free clients of doom”: being the perfect model of a beautiful human being.
“All you can eat trumpet”: food consumption taking over our lives.
“Corner office tubes”: living as mice.
“Feed me fear”: we are a scared nation." -Tommy
This song is about the breaking down of society. Especially in the city. "The cityscape burns brighter by the hour." Our lives are run by the clock, and we never seem to have much time to do what we need to do, but it doesnt matter because we can't really do anything worth while when we are bound by the chains of societies demands for us to become "acceptable people." "Construction paper lawns... force-fed attention grabber... When will you learn?" To illustrate this they use the metaphor of food that we Americans are so fond of. Its a quite ingenious parody I think because it effectively portrays another fault of many Americans while already exposing one fault. They are hinting that we eat up all this crap about what we are supposed to be like. We get this from the TV mostly. "(It's a television nightmare) Eat and watch, eat eat eat... what they feed" Its all junk food in the end.
I think this song describes the non stop need for consuming histories, films, and things that amaze us mainly in the media. The gluttony of our eyes.
it about being scared and eating
"it about being scared and eating "
"it about being scared and eating "
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good lord... the part where he starts singing normally "feed me fear (informal gluttony" is just amazing, it brings chills down my spine. Between the Buried and Me is just amazing, they have down it once again and created and album that just blows my mind.
holy shit! i just listened to this song for the first time in my life and almost broke into tears when he started singing "feed me fear"
this song is beautiful...
soooo good. these guys are insanely talented. i recommend you see them live.
I have the Colors album. I found the lyric "The cityscape burns brighter by the hour" somewhere on it.