The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Too Many Stars

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Way too many stars
Way too many stripes
Far too many bagpipers bangin' on the pipes

Too many glory! hallelujah! rattled battle cries
Pass the ammunition!
Telling way too many lies

[Chorus:]
Too many alone
Too many aware
Too many- it vainly goes on over there
Too many bombs that are bursting the dreams
of the dads and the moms who now know what it means

Too many lives
Too many lost
Too many boundaries and borders've been crossed

Twenty one gunned and the bodies in bags
Done with the anthems and waived of the flags

[Chorus]

Way too many stars falling from the skies
An open invitation sent to open up their eyes
A monumental diplomatic moment that was missed
Too many make their living off it hand right over fist

Too many lives
Too many lost
Too many boundaries and borders've been crossed

Twenty one gunned and the bodies in bags
Done with the anthems and waived of the flags

[Chorus x2]
Who now know what it means [x2]

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mellow_harsher On Mar 14, 2016

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by cipher115

2y ago

my guess is the wars going on in the east influenced this song. too many stars and stripes maybe means that the US had too much unnecessary involvement. the album came out in 2009. the war on terror (of terror) had been around for a while then (and more now). lyrics that are curious. boundaries and borders crossed since the us pretty much invaded the borders of all the countries. bombs bursting. it goes on over there monumental diplomatic moment that was missed. the whole war was a missed diplomatic moment. but I don't know any specific area for this lyric also the 21 gonned and in bagged. I can't find anything on this.

The biggest evidence however is living hand right over fist, which means to make a lot of money The weapon makers for the war got billions of dollars. it costed some 2.3 trillion tax payer dollars that went to the military and their weapon companies during the Afghanistan war.