Kid, don't lose your cool it's still too soon
to have to choose a brighter doom.
It's hard to believe but I can see how
there could be so little left to lose.
Momma's not okay, she lights a candle for every day
that you're away.
Today could be the one she burns the mother fucker down,
the final act of grace.
In a pointless endless race.
Kid, you're under fire, your life is coming down to the wire.
Maybe you'll take the captains hand, carry his ship through burning sands.
Cradle your rifle like a man.
Momma, she says no way, she's lost it all,
So you've got to stay to make her pay.
She throws the fiend upon the throne's a goddamn sucker for the stone.
Till the day he dies alone
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
to have to choose a brighter doom.
It's hard to believe but I can see how
there could be so little left to lose.
that you're away.
Today could be the one she burns the mother fucker down,
the final act of grace.
In a pointless endless race.
Maybe you'll take the captains hand, carry his ship through burning sands.
Cradle your rifle like a man.
So you've got to stay to make her pay.
She throws the fiend upon the throne's a goddamn sucker for the stone.
Till the day he dies alone
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
So calm
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Have to agree with albooga, song about the futility of war. “She throws a fiend upon the throne” for me is about electing a ruler, “Sucker for the stone” maybe someone desperate for power and “until he dies alone” as the leader is ousted at the end of the war.
Man, I listened to this in an endless loop for 2 hours. This stuff is the chiz nit. Only Red Fang song I like though..
always reminds me of the story about the lost son in the bible, about a boy who ran from home and eventually succumbed.
Sounds like a straight forward song about war or more a portrait of aspects of military life as told from a couple different perspectives.
I think its "she knows the fiend upon the throne" not "fiend upon the stones," and "succumb" instead of "so cold."