In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
If I could take this skin off I'd trade it for your riches
I'd just watch the sick turn into the witches
Well I sit and wait, a call of arms to the bodies deceived
Well I just sit and wait, till your eyes believe in little school
To S.O.S.
Paranoia pays for your freedom
Paranoia pays
Well I just sit and wait, everybody frees them
Just how does it feel?
'Cause I just sit and wait, everybody frees them
Till the body's healed
We don't need no more of your observations
'Cause we sit and hide under the robe
We don't need no more of your observations
We just feel alive under the robe
The liberation posted up the signs
And every girl in this fuckin' house is on the pill
I had to turn my fucking skin inside out just for you
Said sit and wait, thought you're gonna make some
Fuck pig like you
Said I'm the sick one baby
With the right abuse in little school
Well S.O.S.
Paranoia pays for your freedom
Paranoia pays
Don't read the signs, everybody frees them
The signs, everybody feeds them
The signs, everybody frees them
No sign
We don't need no more of your observations
'Cause we sit and hide under the robe
We don't need no more of your observations
We just feel alive under the robe
Paid for
Paranoia pays for your freedom
Population pays
Paid for
The S.O.S.
We're under robed that'll pay for freedom
We're under robed that'll pay for freedom
We're under robed that'll pay for, that'll pay for
That'll be the robe and pay for your freedom
Freedom, punish that pig
I'd just watch the sick turn into the witches
Well I sit and wait, a call of arms to the bodies deceived
Well I just sit and wait, till your eyes believe in little school
To S.O.S.
Paranoia pays for your freedom
Paranoia pays
Well I just sit and wait, everybody frees them
Just how does it feel?
'Cause I just sit and wait, everybody frees them
Till the body's healed
We don't need no more of your observations
'Cause we sit and hide under the robe
We don't need no more of your observations
We just feel alive under the robe
The liberation posted up the signs
And every girl in this fuckin' house is on the pill
I had to turn my fucking skin inside out just for you
Said sit and wait, thought you're gonna make some
Fuck pig like you
Said I'm the sick one baby
With the right abuse in little school
Well S.O.S.
Paranoia pays for your freedom
Paranoia pays
Don't read the signs, everybody frees them
The signs, everybody feeds them
The signs, everybody frees them
No sign
We don't need no more of your observations
'Cause we sit and hide under the robe
We don't need no more of your observations
We just feel alive under the robe
Paid for
Paranoia pays for your freedom
Population pays
Paid for
The S.O.S.
We're under robed that'll pay for freedom
We're under robed that'll pay for freedom
We're under robed that'll pay for, that'll pay for
That'll be the robe and pay for your freedom
Freedom, punish that pig
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Under the Robe Lyrics as written by Casey Karim Chmielinski
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absolute fucking class. the opening riff is so fucking cool, Amen used to rock. i aint heard the new album, but this was top class.
This was one of my favorite songs off "We have come for your parents".
It seems to be about how the government and the 'Christian right-wing' controls the American people by creating fear and paranoia, which is especially true right now, with the "War on Terror" being used as an excuse to strip away the rights of the American people.
Luckily for me, I don't live in America.
how du no so much?
I just enjoy reading about politics, and the lyrics to this song just seem to fit with all that.
ok. personally i just like listenin 2 the music.
lol, yeah, I know what you mean, I just think thatin some cases, it gives the music and the words more depth, when you know what they are angry about.
yeah. i guess. but although i do understand that theyr annoyed about politics stuff, i'm not really that bothered. I prefer to imagine why theyr angry.
Fair enough.