New Thrash

This song definately shows thier diversity, nice punk song, is it brad singing in the second verse? It seems as though he is pissed at 'the man' in this song, probably obvious but im new to song meanings lol.

I really like this piece.

I believe, this song is about stress, metamorphosis of character, and selfishness.

The first six lines describe the pressure that he thinks the world has placed upon him, his yearning to escape his chaotic reality, his realization that he cannot save the world, and his decision to focus on himself, before anyone else.

Lines seven and eight describe his dissatisfaction and agitation toward governmental authority for interrupting and restricting certain aspects of his every-day-life (adding more to his stress) by exaggerating the circumstances of particular social situations, causing minor or mass hysteria in the region, resulting in citizens requesting greater governmental control over affairs. Thereby granting the government the additional power it had originally planned to obtain and in turn the government could not be held liable for seizing said power forcefully because it had been relinquish by the citizen majority of their own free will. He falls deeper into mental decay while believing the world has betrayed him.

Lines nine and ten indicate his belief that the citizens will, in time, realize that they have been manipulated due to the fact that the ruling body holds the belief that they are helping their citizens and that if they do not regulate the population under their jurisdiction by restricting certain knowledge, limiting freedoms, and imposing sanctions on aspects of the every-day-lives of the nation, that the citizens would descend into lives of chaos, disorganization, selfishness, and hedonism, losing all sense of ethical and moral values, while falling deeper into an unrepairable seperation from what the ruling body perceives as the civilized world He believes that the population will rebel after the realization has been made that the government believes its citizens to be incompetent, helpless, and incapable without their assistance, although he refuses to be directly involved due to his recent decision to place himself at the top of his priorities.

Lines eleven and twelve depict the obliviousness that he believes the present majority of the population holds about the "human condition", not realizing that they can never fully understand the world perceived through another's eyes. He convinces himself that the majority holds the belief that they are being undermined based on their own personal perceptions of what is right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable, that their constant worry, anxiety, public and or private, conscious and or subconscious paranoia, leads them to seek an escape from what their minds consider stressful, threatening, or confusing, by neglecting to combat the matter(s) and instead only temporarily push them aside, through the usage of alcohol, drugs, and an infinite number of other methods that provide the individual with a sense of escapism.

My impression of the final line of the song, "Peace", is that the narrator had experienced a break from reality, even before the beginning of the written piece, a permanent mental hiccup brought on by his mounting stress and his paranoid anticipation that more stress was going to be cast upon him. This whole piece was a paranoid delusion unknowingly and subconsciously created by the narrator, who unquestionably believes that all of his actions and experiences, up until his breaking point, culminated into a point of higher universal understanding and that the knowledge and truth (bad or good) that was bestowed upon him would finally put him at peace with the unmanageable stresses that he was facing in his life. He most likely became agitated, paranoid, and angered at the fact that the other citizens had not yet evolved to his level of understanding but accepted that they would with the passage of time.

The whole piece was just a small glimpse into the narrator's escape fantasy.

-BetweenMadness

show's sublime's music talent in different ranges... good song, not their best

the lyrics are nice.. it's much different from the others... but it's good

the live version of this is a hell of a lot more thrashing...

Here's some major Bad Brains influence showing through. Beautiful.

Bad brains nice reference...Awesome song...Don't tell me about a fake drug war is my favorite line

there aint no.... wife?....nowhere?

^ "there ain't no life nowhere"

its from a jimi hendrix song, i forgot which one, but the song gets all crazy and hendrix says that line almost exactly like brad does in this song.

sublime knew their hendrix.

That'd be "I Don't Live Today," ill song off AYE