You're Gonna Go Far, Kid

It's basically about lying and manipulating people to get what you want, and saying that by doing that you'll be successful, though I believe it's meant to be taken satirically and not as if the band agrees with doing what it's saying.

The only reason for the Lord of the Flies reference is that the pig's head on a stick bascially manipulated the children into killing each other. (If you view it as a real thing and not just an object that the children hallucinated was talking)

Ever since I first heard it I've been refering to it as "The Lawyer Song".

As most of you are posting, I agree that they are making a Lord of the Flies reference. However, just because they mention "Lord of the Flies," doesn't mean that the song is literally about the book itself. It's just a reference to the song's overall meaning, which is about manipulating people to get what you want.

For example, if you and me are playing football and you make a nice pass to me, I might say, "Nice pass, Peyton Manning," but I don't literally mean that you are Peyton Manning, I'm just comparing you to him. The same is done in this song with the lyric, "Clever alibis, Lord of the Flies." He's just referring the main character of the song as being manipulative like the character from Lord of the Flies, but not saying that he is literally him.

I don't know with everything that's been typed out here so far, but here's my interpretation of the song:

There's apparently a conspirator who's using someone as a scapegoat to pass the chaos and aggression onto.

In layman terms: The kid's placing the blame on someone else to make up for his/her mistakes.

He makes himself look like some kind of Jesus because he never does anything wrong. Little known to his followers, he's not interested in what they want - Only what he wishes.

The fact that the kid's gonna go far, meant that using others to place the blame on will only work for so long.

Since the kid can no longer get what he wants, it's because someone knows what he's been up to, and now all of the negative attention will be drawn back to the kid.

In the end though, his followers will always side with him, so the fucker (The Kid) can dance and celebrate all he wants, because our narrator "Never had a chance" to expose him for who he really is.

Other than that though, I can see where other people got their interpretations from. Please don't flame me, I'm just saying what I thought he said.

see I'm getting a completely different view. I don't see government or bush, I see the complete opposite; the revolter.

A person in the background manipulating the crowd. He knows how to change people with lies. He's going to sneak in with the group where he is needed, start the revolt, and let the crowd take over.

I don't see anything about guns. Hit em right between the eyes just means kill shot to me. Take em out in one swift punch.

As for the 'dance fucker dance' all I get is someone plucking at puppet strings.

Now that I think about it, Lord of the Flies very much seems to be the basis of this song, Take these lyrics:

"And turning all against one Is an art that's hard to teach

Another clever word Sets off an unsuspecting herd And as you step back in the line A mob jumps to their feet"

Jack turned all of the boys against Ralph over the course of the book. One clever word that helped him gain his "herd" would be "beast", something he promised to protect them from. Also, consider this:

"There's someone in your way And now someone is gonna pay If you can't get what you want Well it's all because of me"

Obviously, the song is narrated by Ralph. Ralph realizes here that Jack considers him the catalyst of their problems and he wants to kill him.

Oh, and obviously, "Hit 'em right between the eyes" refers to Piggy and "No more alibis, Lord of the Flies" is about as specific as you'll get.

I didn't actually like the song too much before, but now that I know this, it is much more interesting for me.

I think this song is about the government manipulating us.

the "Dance Fucker Dance" line makes me think this. I think the part about the lies also applies to the government. They will use several clever lies and they will elicit such fear from us that they can get anything from us.

...you all do realize that this song has nothing to do with the book, Lord of the Flies, right? "Lord of the Flies" is a nickname for Satan or Beelzebub. He's basically calling whoever the song is aimed at 'Satan'. Although it's neat to see how you can connect the song to the book, I highly doubt the two are actually related.

Worthless comment, I know, but holy shit this song kicks a lot of ass. This album has replaced Conspiracy of One as my second favorite (S.M.A.S.H. being the first, of course). I'm pumped.

The way i see this song, and it's partly because of the music video, it's about someone who was given a gift but used it for the wrong reason. s/he shit em right between the eyes by doing something out of the kindness of his/her heart, then asked for a reward.

when he says dance fucker dance that may be referring to war times when people would shoot at the enemy's hostages to make them jump around also known as "dancing"