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People, Turn Around Lyrics
Eighteen and jaded with guns in their hands
They were fighting for freedom, and just what is that?
Bills to the banks and food for the kids
Money for college, but couldn't get in
Made all the grades, but got taken to task
By a man in an alley wearing a mask
Screamed and she begged as the people walked by
The man he just laughed and the woman she cried
Well it's time all you people turn around
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
The needle is sweet and the snow it is pure
The pain I've been hiding from, I'm finding a cure
The night it is warm, well the light it is cold
The family I'm robbing, I'm calling them home
It's time all you people turn around
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
My heart it is thumping the veins they've been blue
The blood that's been pumping still hasn't met you
The beard that I'm growing, not fully grown
The years are not coming the way I thought they would
I'm hoping and waiting for something to sing
Like the angels in heaven, the bones on the street
Hoping for love to find a new voice
The song that's needs singing has already been sung before
It's time all you people turn around
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
It's time all you people turn around
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
They were fighting for freedom, and just what is that?
Bills to the banks and food for the kids
Money for college, but couldn't get in
Made all the grades, but got taken to task
By a man in an alley wearing a mask
Screamed and she begged as the people walked by
The man he just laughed and the woman she cried
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
The pain I've been hiding from, I'm finding a cure
The night it is warm, well the light it is cold
The family I'm robbing, I'm calling them home
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
The blood that's been pumping still hasn't met you
The beard that I'm growing, not fully grown
The years are not coming the way I thought they would
I'm hoping and waiting for something to sing
Like the angels in heaven, the bones on the street
Hoping for love to find a new voice
The song that's needs singing has already been sung before
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
For the life we've been living, messing around
The blood we've been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we've been killing is the life like mine
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hoping and waiting for something to sing like the angels in heaven OR BUMS on the street
GREAT song. my interpretation of the song is that its about all the blood shed that goes on during war & all the young soldiers who get sent off to fight.
this band is amazing.
no beard metaphors please...
"the needle is sweet and the snow it is pure the pain I've been hiding from I'm finding a cure"
heroin.
This song is not about one thing. This song is about radically changing our lives. To me, this song wants us to "snap out of it" before it is too late. We need to look at the "lives we've been living, messin around," and stop our destructive path's. It could be drugs, war, selfishness, whatever, but it is time to stop messin around. Powerful song.
This song is not about one thing. This song is about radically changing our lives. To me, this song wants us to "snap out of it" before it is too late. We need to look at the "lives we've been living, messin around," and stop our destructive path's. It could be drugs, war, selfishness, whatever, but it is time to stop messin around. Powerful song.
This song is about changing your life, and altering your destructive path."
This song is about changing your life, and altering your destructive path."
SAMCRO gets it right in their reply to Lucanio. The song ranges across topics which all illustrate our tendency as humans to be both selfish and self-destructive at the same time.