I check in a room today
Up above the downtown market bricks
Right now a boy gets old
A boy gets bitter
A boy learns not to trust
Someone inside his room
The door locks tight
You keep the door locked
Months went by and doors got kicked in
Two outlaws collecting what they loaned
In a room beside my walls
A girl gets choked
She can't pay back the loan
48 more hours to go
"48 more hours," that's all they say
In two more nights
I hear a sound
A shrill from one thin wall away
Every place is the same
Every day is the same
Every place is the same
Violent
There's a conflicting sound
Hear the arguments loud
Every day, the sounds of the
Violent, violent, violent
I moved uptown a bit
Not much changed
Conflict is never gone
But just as a calm sets in
A police line barricades
A place next door
I asked around the lot
A store clerk told me
Two young kids were shot
Mother was near the tracks
Dragged to where a train would go past
Up above the downtown market bricks
Right now a boy gets old
A boy gets bitter
A boy learns not to trust
Someone inside his room
The door locks tight
You keep the door locked
Two outlaws collecting what they loaned
In a room beside my walls
A girl gets choked
She can't pay back the loan
48 more hours to go
"48 more hours," that's all they say
In two more nights
I hear a sound
A shrill from one thin wall away
Every day is the same
Every place is the same
Violent
There's a conflicting sound
Hear the arguments loud
Every day, the sounds of the
Violent, violent, violent
Not much changed
Conflict is never gone
But just as a calm sets in
A police line barricades
A place next door
I asked around the lot
A store clerk told me
Two young kids were shot
Mother was near the tracks
Dragged to where a train would go past
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I really like this song, b/c it reminds me of where I used to live, or some old 50's movie. Good shtuff.
The best part of this song is outside the lyrics... The refrain, and end breakdown on the synth is genius.
i had this crazy dream. a small group of my small friends and i literally beat some guy to death. but im the one who delivered the final blows. i pretty much liquified this guys skull. the weirdest part is that im not an violent person at all. well anywho, im just mentioning this because the song was in the dream. like the soundtrack to it.
i love the ""a boy gets bitter a boy learns not to trust"" lines... they are so great
This is the best Faint song, and I think it deals with modern society's obsession with violence. It's all the same. A plague of violence.
This was also my favorite song on the album. After sharing it with my class I wish there could have been a more positive way we can view the world so events in the songs wouldn't be so commonplace. Such a depressing song, really.
the line "i hear a sound, a shrill from one thin wall away" sounded really dramatic and intense to me awhile ago, so it became my screenname type thing for everything I signed up for on internet every since I heard it. I loved it THAT much!
it has to deal with whats around us today no matter how safe a place looks....great tune..better lyrics.
okay, not only are the lyrics the coolest shit EVER, does anyone else think that the intrumental gunfight is not incredibly amazing? its so kickass.
deff one of the best songs out there.