I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I'm called a cow
I'm not about
to blow it now
for all the cows
It's funny how
money allows
all to browse
and be endowed
the wish is true
it falls into
pieces new the cow is you
My kind has all run out
as if kinds could blend
some time if time allows
everything worn in
like its a friend
I said you're all
a painted doll
and it caused
the walls to fall
how far is he?
impatiently
thats as far as far could be
I'm not about
to blow it now
for all the cows
It's funny how
money allows
all to browse
and be endowed
the wish is true
it falls into
pieces new the cow is you
My kind has all run out
as if kinds could blend
some time if time allows
everything worn in
like its a friend
I said you're all
a painted doll
and it caused
the walls to fall
how far is he?
impatiently
thats as far as far could be
Lyrics submitted by Everlong
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Yeah i think this song is about how fake people can be esp. in LA and how easily people can be bought with money.
i have no idea what this song means... But its pretty kool its quite catchy
Tis sa-weet.
I think it's about someone who has ba dream of becoming an A-List celeb or what you want to call them, and they forget where they came from or the people who put them where they are.
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i always thought it was kind of about Courtney Love, i've always thought of her as a cow?
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I just love how the song goes from calm to rockin' in a 1/2 second.
"Its funny how MONEY allows all to browse and be endowed". You wake up every morning and punch the clock, go to work, make money only to have it all taken away via bills, then the rest is spent on consumerism. "The cow is YOU", the farmer milking us is corporations / corporate lobbyists(politicians) who pass laws to support the corporations. Why doesnt he just come out and say this verbatim if its true? Answer: "I'm not about to blow it all for all the cows." Enjoy chewing your cuds, everyone...
I think this song is about people. Like hollywood people or something and he phrases them as cows. "my kind has all run out" like his kind of "cows" (people) aren't around anymore. "you're a painted doll" pretty much fake.
That's a good point you make about this song being about fakes, because he later wrote a song called "Stacked Actors" which is about his disdain of all the plastic shit in California, esp. Hollywood. Check it out on "There is Nothing Left to Lose", it's an awsm song just like For All the Cows.