Fences

The correct lyrics are (taken from the CD sheet):

If only Your necessary silouhette Unknown, join the dissidents

Got carried away Now hiding from their lies and discords? Once remembered now forgotten

Come roll the dice for me Roll the dice for me

Hold on better undone If really on your own Thinking this is fun? Feathers fallen from drapes Fold her into pieces Tied up and lace

Fences in a row Fences in a row Wired and protected In a row...

Got carried away Thought I would've let you know Did you miss a message?

I know you still Would rather mess with me than get going She's been building up a castle in la

Roll the dice for me

Hold on better undone If really on your own Thinking this is fun? Feathers fallen from drapes Fold her into pieces Tied up and lace

Fences in a row Fences in a row Wired and protected In a row...

I think it might be about protesting. It makes the most sense in the first verse. The fences might be protecting them from the lies that they (from what i dont know, maybe the government, or even possibly the media) are telling them. And the person who the song is directed at is probably a important person in the lies being told to the population

If only Your necessary silouhette Unknown, join the dissidents

They need another person to make the resistance strong, but it doesn't matter who it is

Got carried away Now hiding from their lies and discords? Once remembered now forgotten

The person (who joined the dissidents) was taken away from the lies that are brainwashing them, and the lies that were once remembered are now forgotten.

Come roll the dice for me Roll the dice for me

It's talking about how whoever told the lies and trying to take control of there lives

Hold on better undone If really on your own Thinking this is fun? Feathers fallen from drapes Fold her into pieces Tied up and lace

The first part is telling the person to actually think about what the lies are, and asking them if the person actually thinks that it makes sense. the second part is about how pieces from fact are taken and manipulated into something its not, and then covered up.

Fences in a row Fences in a row Wired and protected In a row...

Got carried away Thought I would've let you know Did you miss a message?

Talking to the same person, its saying you got carried away by the lies and he thought that he would've been able to save them, but they must have missed a message.

I know you still Would rather mess with me than get going She's been building up a castle in la

He saying that the person still is attached to the lies told to them and would probably rather stay with them then face the truth and try to change. The last line makes me think it have something to do with the entertainment industry because that is what la reminds me of.

Roll the dice for me

Hold on better undone If really on your own Thinking this is fun? Feathers fallen from drapes Fold her into pieces Tied up and lace

Fences in a row Fences in a row Wired and protected In a row...

SO basically its a guy trying to get a person to think straight and ignore the media. Well thats what i think

The imagery puzzles me. Fences separate things and are barriers. In this case, since there are "in a row" might represent a divide between reality and the expectations society has of the speaker, or perhaps between the speaker's desires and the expectations of the speaker.

The first verse seems to reinforce this idea--the speaker talks to another person and challenges their loyalty. Will the other person stand by the speaker, or will they go join the dissidents--those who are against the speaker. The next part speaks of the past conflicts or relationships once remembered (by society, I presume), now forgotten (but not by the speaker).

Rolling the dice seems to speak of gambling or of other risky behavior. Perhaps the speaker is fed up with making decisions because none turn out correctly, so he just wants somebody else to tell him what to do.

The next verse should be important, since it is repeated, but for the life of me, I have no clue what it means. In the first half of it, the speaker seems to question whether he is making he right decisions, though he wonders why anyone would think his situation fun.

The last verse seems to return to the relationship between the speaker and someone else. It seems very rocky, and as though they are having an argument. "I would've let you know..." and "I know you'd rather mess with me than get going" seem especially like parts of an argument.

My other idea is that the speaker is struggling with schizophrenia. The fences would represent the divide between reality and fantasy. The nonsensical lyrics contribute to this sense of disorganization to us, though the speaker finds them perfectly sensible, and the imagery could be images the speaker (the schizophreniac) is seeing. Furthermore, the first verse would show the speaker's paranoia that the one person he trusts will join the conspiracy against him, as would the last verse. Rolling the dice could still represent risky behavior, or rather it could represent the speaker's anger that another person is controlling them as springflowers has suggested.

I'm beginning to think he's saying "fences in a row" instead of "in rome". I know these words aren't completely right, hoping to get some help!

I think it's not "hide them from the line of dischords?" but "hide them from the lies and discord"

And I agree with "fences in a row" rather than "in rome".

And it's "hold on better I'm not, really on your own, thinking this is fun" not... whatever you have :P

i agree with "in a row"

loving the new album, particulary this one. soooo good.

that acoustic is real nice.

the only "fences" i know in Rome are those of people nailed to crosses leading the road to Rome...

i love to just put this on and chill out..

Sometimes I like to listen to the lyrics the way I heard them the first time even though it's wrong. Like when he says, "roll the dice for me", I heard "nobody dies for me". I thought maybe he was expressing a profound guilt for someone who sacrificed his/her life for the writer's life that failed to produce anything good. A lot of their lyrics are highly ambiguous often sounding like they could be saying two different things. I wonder if this was an accidental ambiguation because of their accent or an intentional device? I don't know these guys come off as pretty smart hehe..