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Won't Somebody Lyrics
Won't somebody please come up with something
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
While everyone is right here waiting
Out in the cold
Like a bundle of coal
Little packets of darkness
Wanting to glow
Well there's nobody home
And there's a wreck in the yard
And maybe they're coming back
If we wish really hard
If we wish real hard, now
Won't somebody please come up with something
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
But everyone is gonna keep on waiting
Waiting for peace
At the end of our streets
Back behind our apartments
In our passenger seats
Just a moment of bliss
Amid all of the waste
The despair and oblivion
Of our precarious race
It's ours to face now
Won't somebody please come up with something
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially workin'
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
But everyone is still right here waiting
Now I know nothing lasts forever
So we might as well wish for a goddamn fix
Of this toxic change in weather
Won't somebody please come up with something
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially workin'
And all of the others can barely stay in the runnin'
But everyone is gonna keep on waiting
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please come up with something
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
While everyone is right here waiting
Like a bundle of coal
Little packets of darkness
Wanting to glow
Well there's nobody home
And there's a wreck in the yard
And maybe they're coming back
If we wish really hard
If we wish real hard, now
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially working
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
But everyone is gonna keep on waiting
At the end of our streets
Back behind our apartments
In our passenger seats
Just a moment of bliss
Amid all of the waste
The despair and oblivion
Of our precarious race
It's ours to face now
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially workin'
And all of the rest are really down in the ratings
But everyone is still right here waiting
So we might as well wish for a goddamn fix
Of this toxic change in weather
'Cause Jesus just don't seem to be impartially workin'
And all of the others can barely stay in the runnin'
But everyone is gonna keep on waiting
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please come up with something
Won't somebody please come up with something
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I think is about how Jesus and all of those people are suppose to help us but there not hence proving no god. maybe.
It is about how religion is getting us nowhere as a country/race. Not necessarily about the existence of god, but how religion has let us down, and we need an alternative. And most people are waiting in the wings, and not down with the fundamentalism, and fanaticism that has dominated the headlines, and policy recently. $0.02
Sounds like just the agony of waiting for deliverance.
All BR albums reflect the modern times we're living in, and right now we seem to be sinking pretty low. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Jesus, his name was just a throw' in;
But the lyrics basically say he's judging unfairly..
It really captures the sinking flow of our modern times.
"Won't somebody just come up with something" I think you're very very right Everyone is feeling low and just crying out for someone to do something to change things. But I think that a lot of this album is also about how this point of view fails, that we have given up on our own agency, that we have lost hope and just want somebody else to fix it. In a way, politically it is a criticism of Obama. Not in the serious way that they actually thought of Obama when they wrote this, but in the way that people put their hope in...
"Won't somebody just come up with something" I think you're very very right Everyone is feeling low and just crying out for someone to do something to change things. But I think that a lot of this album is also about how this point of view fails, that we have given up on our own agency, that we have lost hope and just want somebody else to fix it. In a way, politically it is a criticism of Obama. Not in the serious way that they actually thought of Obama when they wrote this, but in the way that people put their hope in the establishment because he seemed to have the fix. But when you put hope in the establishment rather than yourself, nothing changes and the patterns repeat and deepen
I see it as «Oh, heck, won't somebody please come up with something, 'cause i don't wanna do it myself»