Hard Times

this song is fucking awesome :D the beginning always makes me think it's Bloc Party's Hunting for Witches though, I wonder if it's deliberate? They have similar themes.

When I saw him play this live in 2007, there was a line like 'kill the king and crown the witches'. Obviously it hasn't made it onto the final cut, but I quite liked it.

Correct lyrics:

As they Dig your ditches Count my stitches

Generation justice Wishes for World at war Final score Media come and abhor us These Our hard times But we'll work harder, harder Give me hard times And I'll work harder, harder

Divided nation In sedation Overload of information That we have grown up To ignore... Mediocrity applauded Through these hard times We'll work harder Give me hard times And I'll work harder, harder

For revolution

Show me some Resolution And this Battle will be won

Forced to count the hours Since two towers Fell to fiction those higher powers Putting gods to war Who keeps score?

Ignorance is still adored All through these hard times We'll work harder, harder Give me hard times And I'll work harder harder For revolution Show me some revolution

This battle will be won

If they only see you with their fear And they only hear you with their pride

Then work harder

Harder

To be honest I never really like The Magic Position as a full album. Yeah there was Overture which blew me away and The Magic Position was always fun to dance to. Let's hope Patrick comes back strong with this one. This song is pretty good. I like the lyrics. They're very motivational to me. They make me wanna go out get somethin'. :)

Forced to count the hours Since two towers Fell to fiction those higher powers Putting gods to war Who keeps score? Ignorance is still adored

i reckon this is about how people in America think the twin towers was the worst thing to ever happen but they aren't counting all the horrible things they have done for example Hiroshima.

Well, obviously, I could be right and I could be wrong, but I'm thinking this song is a little bit like about how the media plays and shows things over and over again and we're becoming numb to some things. Example: 'since two towers fell to fiction' The footage of the two towers falling was played over and over again on the news and even personally, I began to not care. We are becoming sort of 'numb' to things that could even be considered a big deal and even rulers wrecking the country (what ever country that may be) is allowed by the citizens as a whole because it's become an accepted fact.

Well, obviously, I could be right and I could be wrong, but I'm thinking this song is a little bit like about how the media plays and shows things over and over again and we're becoming numb to some things. Example: 'since two towers fell to fiction' The footage of the two towers falling was played over and over again on the news and even personally, I began to not care. We are becoming sort of 'numb' to things that could even be considered a big deal and even rulers wrecking the country (what ever country that may be) is allowed by the citizens as a whole because it's become an accepted fact.

I think this song is all about War. People always think their side is the 'right' side in war. And cruel acts are justified. Any misjustice isn't questioned, it's just covered up by the majority of the population.

If anyone has read Animal Farm, this song screams Boxer to me. The workhorse who believed everything would be okay if he worked harder. Even though the farm was being turned into a dictatorship and it was moving away from their idea of a perfect society (everyone pulling their weight and earning equality, god, it's an allegory to communism, what more can I say?), he wasn't smart enough to realize that he had to do more than just work harder. But that was all he could do.