(Slaine)
This is a movement; a real movement.(La Coka Nostra). You motherfuckers talk like you a movement but none of yous are moving.

I walk the hills, I had to climb with these legs of my own
My hard days and dark nights put my head in the zone
Hustled for blood money, left my wife pregnant at home
We're on the television, everyone's regularly stoned
I flash back to a 70's song in a Volare with mom
Picture the future seeing everything gone
My wife is asking me, "Is anything wrong?"
I tell her, "Erica, everything is. You better be strong."
America, where I was born, city blocks are where I was raised
I seed from the land of the greed, home of the craze
I never run, I'm unafraid, I'm known to be brave
Till my bitch dig me a ditch and she stone me a grave
Seven weeks in utero, you grow and don't be a slave
Just build your hunger and your power from your loneliest days
There were many before me who molded me and showed me the way
But I'm my own man, there's nobody that told me to say what I

Hate will fuel your rage
Drugs will get you high
Money buys respect
Love will get you by

Hate will fuel your rage
Drugs will get you high
Money buys respect
Love will get you by

(Everlast)
It's the Highland Samurai with the violent devil eye
Semper Fi qualified, sing your ass a lullaby
Rockaby, do or die, true Jedi status
You wanna learn to skywalk? Bitch come get at us
Dolomite, ?, canonite, fahrenheit, satellite
Mr. White got a light, do the right from your seeds to the block
Trooper with the future shock
Fumigate the paradox, illuminate the orthodox

(Danny Boy)
I feel the devil in my eyes, I see em in Hell next
I sniff and I sell death, walking up twelve steps
I live rock bottom with bitches that sell sex
This ice cold world has got me vicious and selfish

(Everlast)
Danny Man got a plan, Taliban outta hand
Pakistan to Japan, Darvocet, Percodan
Over stand fifty grand, cougar and who's the man?
Dapper Dan, Uncle Sam, bitch he never gave a damn

Hate will fuel your rage
Drugs will get you high
Money buys respect
Love will get you by

Hate will fuel your rage
Drugs will get you high
Money buys respect
Love will get you by

(Ill Bill)
I walk amongst the reptilians and leather-skinned aliens
On inner-stellar chariots, post-apocalyptic gladiators
My electrons are Teflon, my protons are Tech Nines
My neutrons will shoot your motherfucking heads gone
They form molecules that move like death squads
That kidnap American tourists and make bombs
Standing at the gates of Heaven waiting to face God
Take part in criminology like Raekwon
We those killers that don't blink
The world's mostly billions that don't think
Controlled by the Skull And Bones triple six
Listen kid, the day the nuclear missile hit
Where were you? Probably taking a shit
While the sky hailed mountain-sized comets
And planet-shattering lightning
Gigantic fragments of ice like what the Titanic collided with
Society is not civilization, technology is Satan
In the hands of devil worshipers that praise him

Hate will fuel your rage
Drugs will get you high
Money buys respect
Love will get you by

Hate will fuel your rage
Drugs will get you high
Money buys respect
Love will get you by

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I first listened to this song when I was 14 years old, and ever since, it has stuck with me. Now I’m in my 20s and my interpretation of the song is that it is an anthem about learning to get by the hardships of life and the consequent corruption of the soul because of the evil in the world. \n\nIt’s about the need to Get By and survive in a difficult existence, where our fears and enemies are very real. Where we must fight for ourselves. \n\nThe world that the narrator tells us about, strongly emphasizes the need he has had throughout his life to be independent and oriented to think and act for himself “walk the hills, I had to climb with these legs of my own- My hard days and dark nights put my head in the zone” also highlighting that life has made him hard, the difficulties mutated him into and independent and flawed man.\n\n His upbringing has made him live a life that is far from what he dreamed of. America is portrayed as greedy and grey. And so has become his soul.\n\nIn a brief moment he refers to a flashback with his mother (probably when he was a child) “I flash back to a 70\'s song in a Volare with mom\nPicture the future seeing everything gone\nMy wife is asking me, "Is anything wrong?"\nI tell her, "Erica, everything is. You better be strong."“ he reminisces of an innocent time in his life, which is now long gone, erased by the relentlessness of time.\n\n Now he is married, and during his flashback, his wife asks him if everything is fine. He replies that things are not. It’s no longer the 1970s and the innocent and happy time spent with his mother is long gone. Soon it will all be gone. This ice cold world has made his vicious and selfish.\n\nThe narrator also stresses that he has had many examples in life, and that there “were many before me who molded me and showed me the way\nBut I\'m my own man, there\'s nobody that told me to say what I say” meaning he knows it’s himself for himself and he is the owner of his own life and own story.\n\nSo how then will a man succeed in a corrupt and evil world like this? How will he survive all the forces that want to destroy him and make him cease to exist? How will he get by? \n\nHis answer:\n“Hate will fuel your rage\nDrugs will get you high\nMoney buys respect\nLove will get you by”\n\nHate for the things that want to destroy you will motivate you to act. Drugs (I believe that this isn’t just about stimulants- to me it’s used more in a figurative sense, as in the distractions and vices of your life) will make you high. Money (becoming a wealthy individual will make you respected) and love (and sex possibly is meant here) will help you make sense of it all. This is far from ideal, probably not what he envisioned for himself as a child,, but this is how he has made it. \n\nThe man in this story has survived. But his innocence is dead. He feels the devil in his eyes. But he Gets By.

I first listened to this song when I was 14 years old, and ever since, it has stuck with me. Now I’m in my 20s and my interpretation of the song is that it is an anthem about learning to get by the hardships of life and the consequent corruption of the soul because of the evil in the world. \n\nIt’s about the need to Get By and survive in a difficult existence, where our fears and enemies are very real. Where we must fight for ourselves. \n\nThe world that the narrator tells us about, strongly emphasizes the need he has had throughout his life to be independent and oriented to think and act for himself “walk the hills, I had to climb with these legs of my own- My hard days and dark nights put my head in the zone” also highlighting that life has made him hard, the difficulties mutated him into and independent and flawed man.\n\n His upbringing has made him live a life that is far from what he dreamed of. America is portrayed as greedy and grey. And so has become his soul.\n\nIn a brief moment he refers to a flashback with his mother (probably when he was a child) “I flash back to a 70\'s song in a Volare with mom\nPicture the future seeing everything gone\nMy wife is asking me, "Is anything wrong?"\nI tell her, "Erica, everything is. You better be strong."“ he reminisces of an innocent time in his life, which is now long gone, erased by the relentlessness of time.\n\n Now he is married, and during his flashback, his wife asks him if everything is fine. He replies that things are not. It’s no longer the 1970s and the innocent and happy time spent with his mother is long gone. Soon it will all be gone. This ice cold world has made his vicious and selfish.\n\nThe narrator also stresses that he has had many examples in life, and that there “were many before me who molded me and showed me the way\nBut I\'m my own man, there\'s nobody that told me to say what I say” meaning he knows it’s himself for himself and he is the owner of his own life and own story.\n\nSo how then will a man succeed in a corrupt and evil world like this? How will he survive all the forces that want to destroy him and make him cease to exist? How will he get by? \n\nHis answer:\n“Hate will fuel your rage\nDrugs will get you high\nMoney buys respect\nLove will get you by”\n\nHate for the things that want to destroy you will motivate you to act. Drugs (I believe that this isn’t just about stimulants- to me it’s used more in a figurative sense, as in the distractions and vices of your life) will make you high. Money (becoming a wealthy individual will make you respected) and love (and sex possibly is meant here) will help you make sense of it all. This is far from ideal, probably not what he envisioned for himself as a child,, but this is how he has made it. \n\nThe man in this story has survived. But his innocence is dead. He feels the devil in his eyes. But he Gets By.

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