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2009-07-05 06:34:21

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Cover art for Idiocy lyrics by Lonely Forest, The

by RavenGrip

16y ago

This song relates entirely a few lines at the end of "Nuclear Winter." Someone on board the ship, perhaps the hero himself, has said "We will come back to take revenge for our families, for our world gone by. Enemies must die!" This song is the realization that it was this kind of thinking that corrupted our world in the first place. The literal definition of idiocy is doing one thing over and over again and expecting a different result. That's what this song's about. "You don't want to be wise, and you don't listen." You don't realize that that same hatred is exactly what corrupted the old world.

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