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Things Don't Look Good Lyrics
roots spread under the mud
drags the steel sprawl out towards the sea
pile these cold souls so tight they’ll hardly breathe
flames will walk the earth
let them roam
they don’t need what can spend so easily
make this wretched mass work for their gloom
flames will walk the earth
and nothing will change
pack ourselves so tight we can’t breathe
on their grief
we cast our roots deep
the grid extends its reach
things don’t look good
as we feel the ground wake
nothing will change
flames will walk the earth
and nothing will change
drags the steel sprawl out towards the sea
pile these cold souls so tight they’ll hardly breathe
flames will walk the earth
let them roam
they don’t need what can spend so easily
make this wretched mass work for their gloom
flames will walk the earth
and nothing will change
pack ourselves so tight we can’t breathe
on their grief
we cast our roots deep
the grid extends its reach
things don’t look good
as we feel the ground wake
nothing will change
flames will walk the earth
and nothing will change
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I think that this song is about urbanization. "Roots spread under the mud, drags the steel sprawl out towards the sea" - City's are getting bigger and covering larger areas. "Pack ourselves so tight we can't breathe" - Human population are growing larger and we are forced to live dense. "The grid extends its reach" - Sooner or later our city's will cover all the dry land. "Flames will walk the earth", "Things don't look good" - Living in such density could cause large disasters - conflagrations, diseases, ecological catastrophe. Even global disasters. "And nothing will change" - Urbanization is part of human progression and this habit won't change.
Something to do with humanity ruining the Earth, and that we'll never be able to stop?
Correction to the first verse:
"Pile these cold souls so tight they'll barely breathe"
Not a big thing, just figured I'd point that out. :p:
I don't get it.