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.
Seven months in the making, making only organized crime
We'll be masterminds if our dreams will reach the shore
Another turning point in time tonight when the lights go out
Shotgun Freedom is what the say I'm about
What I'm about won't matter when I walk out the door
Familiar faces put on dolls
Fashioned raincoats and handmade tools
When the evening's ending
I'm still standing tall, surrounded but these loop holed walls
Any minute I'll begin a ticking time bomb till I run
Once we're gone, at the sight of the lights out, nightfall shades the sun
We'll put together, said and done, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Seven months led the breaking, breaking only rules that apply
In this prison labeled, unable to abort
A reputation redefined tonight in the darkest hour
When the three of us are missing, one is missing out
He gave little time to a job that needed more
Familiar faces put on dolls
Fashioned raincoats and handmade tools
When the evening's ending
I'm still standing tall, surrounded but these loop holed walls
Any minute I'll begin a ticking time bomb till I run
Once we're gone, at the sight of the lights out, nightfall shades the sun
We'll put together, said and done, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Lights out now, it?s half past nine, up a 30 ft corridor three men climb
It should have been four, but one man is left behind
Crawl from the rooftop down to the northern end
Through the thickest fog to the water's edge
For the thrilling ride to be never seen again
Whistles blow on the morning at the sight of a break
3 empty cells with only decoy faces
Of the ones now known to the other side of the bay
Victim's lost and drown or so they say, only presumed dead
But the deadliest way for you to keep your life is let it seem to slip away
Familiar faces put on dolls
Fashioned raincoats and handmade tools
When the evening's ending
I'm still standing tall, surrounded by these loop holed walls
From beginning to the end a ticking time bomb on the run
And now we're gone at the sight of the lights out
Nightfall shades the sun
We'll put together, said and done, oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh
Once and for all, surrendered we're the broke down walls
I can't thank them enough for the pleasure of growing old
We'll move on in a long lived story that everyone will know
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
We'll be masterminds if our dreams will reach the shore
Another turning point in time tonight when the lights go out
Shotgun Freedom is what the say I'm about
What I'm about won't matter when I walk out the door
Familiar faces put on dolls
Fashioned raincoats and handmade tools
When the evening's ending
I'm still standing tall, surrounded but these loop holed walls
Any minute I'll begin a ticking time bomb till I run
Once we're gone, at the sight of the lights out, nightfall shades the sun
We'll put together, said and done, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Seven months led the breaking, breaking only rules that apply
In this prison labeled, unable to abort
A reputation redefined tonight in the darkest hour
When the three of us are missing, one is missing out
He gave little time to a job that needed more
Familiar faces put on dolls
Fashioned raincoats and handmade tools
When the evening's ending
I'm still standing tall, surrounded but these loop holed walls
Any minute I'll begin a ticking time bomb till I run
Once we're gone, at the sight of the lights out, nightfall shades the sun
We'll put together, said and done, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Lights out now, it?s half past nine, up a 30 ft corridor three men climb
It should have been four, but one man is left behind
Crawl from the rooftop down to the northern end
Through the thickest fog to the water's edge
For the thrilling ride to be never seen again
Whistles blow on the morning at the sight of a break
3 empty cells with only decoy faces
Of the ones now known to the other side of the bay
Victim's lost and drown or so they say, only presumed dead
But the deadliest way for you to keep your life is let it seem to slip away
Familiar faces put on dolls
Fashioned raincoats and handmade tools
When the evening's ending
I'm still standing tall, surrounded by these loop holed walls
From beginning to the end a ticking time bomb on the run
And now we're gone at the sight of the lights out
Nightfall shades the sun
We'll put together, said and done, oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh
Once and for all, surrendered we're the broke down walls
I can't thank them enough for the pleasure of growing old
We'll move on in a long lived story that everyone will know
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
But the ending's left untold, but the ending's left untold
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well, obviously the songs about frank morris' escape from alcatraz. the entire story's right there
What a fascinating song! ^^He's got it.
This is a great song by Capital Lights. Completely tells the whole story of Frank Morris's escape. Why did they write about Frank Morris though, is there any connection or was it just random?
correction:
fashionED raincoats and HANDMADE TOOLS...
only PRESUMED dead, but the deadliest way...
this is a great song.
this band sounds neat but every song is about a breaking up with his girlfriend and nothing about God. so much for the christian label
dude, you're so wrong. think about the song names "Miracle Man" = Jesus. "Return" = About the return of christ and the end days. "worth as much as a conterfiet dollar" = about how humanity is worth nothing, and we don't deserve to be saved. Its also about Jesus' death and him saving us from our doom.
And there's this song, which isn't about God, but quite definately isn't about breaking up with his girlfriend.<br /> Besides, you don't have to have christian lyrics to be a christian band. Have you heard Family Force Five?
correction: any minute ill begin a ticking time bomb till i run
and "From beginging till the end a ticking time bomb on the run" and I thought it said "he gave little time to a job that needed more" but that one might just be me