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I’d rather watch movie stars get fat
I’d rather hang up a flag and be done with it
I’d rather keep the fire and the frenzy out of my mind
I’d rather take sides in an argument
I’d rather crank up the bass in a dark basement
I’d rather leave the mobs and the murder in a distant land
Let the sunshine in
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
My vote’s a bet in a football pool
Five on the red, six on the blue
Wake up, fool, there’s no time for a shouting match
I smell blood and there’s no blood around
The blanked out eyes and the blanked out sound
I see them coming back; they’re motionless in an airport lounge
Let the sunshine in
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
You should be getting stoned with a prom dress girl
You should still believe in an endless world
You should blast Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot
Let the sunshine in
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
I’d rather hang up a flag and be done with it
I’d rather keep the fire and the frenzy out of my mind
I’d rather crank up the bass in a dark basement
I’d rather leave the mobs and the murder in a distant land
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
Five on the red, six on the blue
Wake up, fool, there’s no time for a shouting match
The blanked out eyes and the blanked out sound
I see them coming back; they’re motionless in an airport lounge
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
You should still believe in an endless world
You should blast Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
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this is straight off of doughty's blog --
"I want to be really clear about this. I've gotten emails from soldiers who dig it, but I want to make it totally explicit what the song means.
The first verse is about guilt. That I can go about my daily life without thinking of the violence and the fear in Iraq, and the sacrifice people are making over there.
The first part of the second verse is about frustration with political pissing matches, instead of unity among our elected representatives to serve these guys. The second half is about how the war haunts me; how I see dudes in uniform in airports and wonder what's going on in their heads, what they've witnessed.
The bridge is about lost innocence. Young guys that go over there and come back scarred--bodily, often, but also psychologically, that so many of them will have the burden of post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, haunting images.
I wrote the song basically out of two experiences; I went to Walter Reed last year, met some guys who had lost limbs, and came out scared and grateful. And I grew up an Army brat in the 70s, when many of the adult males around me were in Vietnam, and there was lots of strange behavior that I now recognize as PTSD.
Fort Hood is the base in Texas that's lost the most people in Iraq and Afghanistan."
The last verse - that bit in parentheses - is:
"You should be blasting Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot."
It refers to the rapper Young Jeezy, and kids hanging out in parking lots listening to loud music.
I submitted the correct lyric, but SongMeanings replaced my submission with some fucked-up transcription from an inferior lyrics site.
I submitted the correct lyric, but SongMeanings replaced my submission with some fucked-up transcription from an inferior lyrics site.
Grrrr - hate when that happens.
I got it wrong as well. It's
"You should be getting stoned with a prom dress girl, You should still believe in and endless world, You should blast Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot."
Wish they'd correct it.