Baby

again a literary lyrics...

I dunno but it just seems like a love song to me, to put it bluntly =)

It's a great song anyhow (like every song on Elect the Dead).

man made classifications, labels and time only seperate our world and deviate away from true existance

You know I'll agree, I will agree that it's a love song about peace, and after hearing this I thought of something to add to it.

"Leave me alone, Leave me alone, Now why can't you see that you always perturb me so, Nearing the end of the world, just leave me alone, Leave me alone, Why can't you see that you always perturb me so, Nearing the end of the world, leave me alone, Leave me alone..."

Did you know that the character Socrates in Plato's book refers to justice as "minding your own business". Not interrupting somethings process of being what it ought to be...

Let me know what you think. Does it sound fitting.

You know I'll agree, I will agree that it's a love song about peace, and after hearing this I thought of something to add to it.

"Leave me alone, Leave me alone, Now why can't you see that you always perturb me so, Nearing the end of the world, just leave me alone, Leave me alone, Why can't you see that you always perturb me so, Nearing the end of the world, leave me alone, Leave me alone..."

Did you know that the character Socrates in Plato's book refers to justice as "minding your own business". Not interrupting somethings process of being what it ought to be...

Let me know what you think. Does it sound fitting.

I agree with MikeDecipher.

After watching the video, I think it is about a breakup and how people go about it differently, sometimes lying to themselves about the impact it has on the other person. Hence:

To all the leaves that fall in vain, While god and goddess go insane, All these words in your domain, The watches kill time as the books read,

This ties with videos theme of the guy going nuts while the girl calmly reads her book. She SEEMS to be unaffected, just reading her book, but she's mimicking all the same words the guy is feeling. Hence:

Inadvertently we bleed, Fighting for what we deceive..

As for why they're not together if they both miss each other so much: How many times have you dated someone you really liked, but trying to actually be with them was impossible? With the other songs on the album being about the end of the world, who has time to be with someone who perturbs you? Hence:

Leave me alone, Leave me alone, Now why can't you see that you always perturb me so, Nearing the end of the world, just leave me alone,

In a nutshell I think Serj is talking about those connections who have with certain people that are just awesome, so that when it's over you miss them. But it's over for a reason, so it's not a song about reconciliation. It's also about how even though we think the person that's going nuts and acting out is the only one hurting, but they're not, both parties hurt and tell themselves what they need to inorder to move on.

Personally, I think he's making a reference to George Orwell's book, 1984. What finally brought me to this conclusion was the line, "splitting planets into thirds." In 1984, Earth is domnated by three major Communist Superpowers who perpetually fight each other, but will never defeat the other. Also, "kill time as the book reads" could be a reference to Goldstein's book in 1984, which explains the meaning and existence of the superstates. Lastly, his "baby" is the Winston's love interest Julia. He misses her, but he also realizers that the two of them together is always, suicide.

This is soo deep. Once again, Serj references George Orwell. But this time, he's actually separating the song into thirds, if you notice. It is cyclic and is very diminutive of 1984. Plus, it's talking about how we deal with our allies in the same way that we deal with our enemies... efficaciously.

I'm listening to it for the first time, and I really think this song is personifying the United States and our allies in the "coalition of the willing." Gearing the country up for war, the hawks boasted about all of our allies and international support that really only sent token forces. As they one by one withdraw their troops, the administration says "Well, we don't need them anyway."
But still the politicians miss them because they liked to propagate the idea that we're not doing this alone, and people are now seeing through their lies.