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Too Much Rope Lyrics
When the sleigh is heavy and the timber wolves are getting bold
You look at you companions and test the water of their friendship with your toe
And they significantly edge closer to the gold. Each man has his price, Bob, and yours was pretty low
Now history is short. The sun is just a minor star
The poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar
Que sera, sera. Is that your new Ferrari car? Nice. But I think I'll wait for the F50
You don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder (tears burn my eyes).
Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote?
Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up
And last night on T.V., a Vietnam vet takes his beard and his pain
And his alienation twenty years back to Asia again
Sees the monsters they made in formaldehyde floating around
Meets a gook on a bike, a good little tyke, with the same soldier's eyes
What does it mean, this tear-jerking scene beamed into my home
That it moves me so much? Why all the fuss?
It's only two humans being… (tears burn in my eyes)
What does it mean, this tender T.V., this tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
And you don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder (tears burn my eyes).
Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote?
Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up
You look at you companions and test the water of their friendship with your toe
And they significantly edge closer to the gold. Each man has his price, Bob, and yours was pretty low
The poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar
Que sera, sera. Is that your new Ferrari car? Nice. But I think I'll wait for the F50
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote?
Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up
And his alienation twenty years back to Asia again
Sees the monsters they made in formaldehyde floating around
Meets a gook on a bike, a good little tyke, with the same soldier's eyes
That it moves me so much? Why all the fuss?
It's only two humans being… (tears burn in my eyes)
What does it mean, this tender T.V., this tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
Preacher or poet, who was it wrote?
Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up
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I am normally against this point of view, but in this case, I feel that the individual meanings of the songs on ATD don't matter so much, and the way you interpret the album as a whole (listened to from beginning to end) is much more important, though it may be different for various people.
Personally, I feel the album is about general corruption and stifling of freedom, the fundamental stupidity of the human race (especially this song), and the idiocy of the American Republicans of the time (Papa Bush and Really Famous Reagan).
The Bob mentioned is Bob Ezrin's betrayal of Roger in favor for the money that the False Floyd, the Pink Floyd that continued on without Roger, was pulling in. That and it's about how we've just fucked ourselves up and are almost devoid of true emotion now that killing is entertainment, war is a past time, and religion is a joke.
i believe this song is about how we have completly f**ked the world up and i think this song links in with "amused to death". the point it gets across is we our to smart for our own good too much rope is our intelegance and we have too much of it so what is there left to do but kill ourselves