He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
You were the only one
I fancied you all I had left
We knew it was true and instinctively left
one another to mend our own holes in our chests
in a dream we were pieces of ships
we were attached from our feet to our hips
and forgetting that icebergs were only the tips
as we crashed I could read the relief on your lips
but most dreams were better
and we all were one
and everyone just became part of the sun
and then shot back out in a gajillion rays
all our ancestors and children and the futures they made
would just shine down and light up the day
and our lives blended better than our bodies ever could
in the days when we were made out of flesh or wood
yeah we weren’t the same color though we knew that we could be
we were ourselves but blended at the edges like it should be
and now separated your color now shines on my sleeve
with my parents, favorite teacher, first ever pen pal and me
and the more that we share i guess the more that we grow
and we all became tiny rainbows
I fancied you all I had left
We knew it was true and instinctively left
one another to mend our own holes in our chests
in a dream we were pieces of ships
we were attached from our feet to our hips
and forgetting that icebergs were only the tips
as we crashed I could read the relief on your lips
but most dreams were better
and we all were one
and everyone just became part of the sun
and then shot back out in a gajillion rays
all our ancestors and children and the futures they made
would just shine down and light up the day
and our lives blended better than our bodies ever could
in the days when we were made out of flesh or wood
yeah we weren’t the same color though we knew that we could be
we were ourselves but blended at the edges like it should be
and now separated your color now shines on my sleeve
with my parents, favorite teacher, first ever pen pal and me
and the more that we share i guess the more that we grow
and we all became tiny rainbows
Lyrics submitted by DarthFly0
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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amazing song. to me, it says we are our collective experiences. as people enter and leave our lives, they impact us, for better or worse, and we carry that with us. or in the words of the song, we start off as one single color and as people influence us, we take on their colors (and become tiny rainbows).