Wolves at the Door Lyrics
For your permission
Slyly you invite them
On one condition
They prepare a feast
For your provisions
of root and wild beast
for you to eat
They took your money and ate kids
And they had their way
With your wife a little bit
While you wept on the porch
With your head in your hands
Cursing taxes and the government
You're a goddamn fool
You're a goddamn fool
And I love you
Yeah I love you
Your former glory
Bright and open wide
Like Easter morning
How the light has dimmed
And how the fear of
Everything is creeping in
You're a goddamn fool
You're a goddamn fool
And I love you
Yeah I love you
You're a goddamn fool
You're a goddamn fool
And I love you
Yeah I love you
some slight modification to these lyrics: "They prepare a feast FROM your provisions" This is important I think because it's crucial to note that the wolves weren't giving away anything new, this was the wolves making something that was already his.
"They took your money and THEY ate YOUR kids"
and I'm pretty sure it's "LOOK into your eyes" admittedly, David's voice is a bit slurry there.
I read this song to be about the co-opting of religious populations by the Republican party. Lines about "how the fear of everything is creeping in" make me think of the fear-mongering that has become common in politics and how its used to herd a group of people who should embrace love and equality and turn them against their own teachings.
"Working class free-market fundamentalists are wrong about the way the world works in the same way that the grizzly man was wrong about bears. Survival of the fittest indeed." (David Bazan)