Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Rank these woods
Where lost inspiration
Ain't that a barrel full of laughs
Wipe you ass of the crumbs on the table
Where they fall hungry on your land
Whatever became of the seed that once grew in your hand
And the darts where you fingers did bleed and the rush to your head
[Chorus]
Oh ya won't no no you won't make a fool outta me
Worse things break that are made of elastic
And I'm no puppet on your show
You won't sing when the singer is song-less
Another notch in your fat belt
But green is the heart of your greed
That much I can tell
You may think you're the captain of me
But I'm your coffin-ship from hell
[Chorus]
And ya won't no no no ya won't,ya won't make a fool outta me
Won't no no no ya won't,ya won't make a fool outta me
So I'll drag these bones across the edge
With the dead I'll never sleep
Where I'll haunt ya for a thousand years
Without breath you'll never breath
For an empty shell your grave will a lost for ever more
[Chorus]
And ya won't no no no ya won't,ya won't make a fool outta
Wipe that hand that fed you for nothing
Get that monkey of your back
Empty lies and bold celebrations that's not the meaning of success
But green is the harsh of your greed that much I can tell
[Chorus]
And ya won't no no no ya won't make a fool outta me
I says ya won't no no no ya won't make a fool outta me
I says ya won't no no no ya won't make a fool outta me
Where lost inspiration
Ain't that a barrel full of laughs
Wipe you ass of the crumbs on the table
Where they fall hungry on your land
Whatever became of the seed that once grew in your hand
And the darts where you fingers did bleed and the rush to your head
[Chorus]
Oh ya won't no no you won't make a fool outta me
Worse things break that are made of elastic
And I'm no puppet on your show
You won't sing when the singer is song-less
Another notch in your fat belt
But green is the heart of your greed
That much I can tell
You may think you're the captain of me
But I'm your coffin-ship from hell
[Chorus]
And ya won't no no no ya won't,ya won't make a fool outta me
Won't no no no ya won't,ya won't make a fool outta me
So I'll drag these bones across the edge
With the dead I'll never sleep
Where I'll haunt ya for a thousand years
Without breath you'll never breath
For an empty shell your grave will a lost for ever more
[Chorus]
And ya won't no no no ya won't,ya won't make a fool outta
Wipe that hand that fed you for nothing
Get that monkey of your back
Empty lies and bold celebrations that's not the meaning of success
But green is the harsh of your greed that much I can tell
[Chorus]
And ya won't no no no ya won't make a fool outta me
I says ya won't no no no ya won't make a fool outta me
I says ya won't no no no ya won't make a fool outta me
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not their best song but like every FLogging molly song, beautifully writen.