Snibe

I may be killed for saying so, but this is my favorite SDRE song. It makes me feel like marching or something.

i looked up the word snibe online. apparently its a group of poor people who make all of their money working for minimum wage at fast food restaraunts just so that they can buy drugs. I think that the song is about people who live like that and about them complaining without actually doing anything productive.

it could also be about immigrants. the line "We passed the interrogation Signed our names at the bottom of the government paper " is really hard to understand. I was thinking that maybe the interrogation was people always being suspicious. definitely a complex song...

I think the main focus of the lyric is about the entire "system":

• Sick enough to infect me, but too far gone to protect me

But I totally agree it is a complex and incredible song, I listen to it for years and it always awakens new impressions.

what do you mean?

rad song. makes me feel guilty for some reason...

I think it's about people who have sinned and complained about their own doings like it was not their fault and their are not to blame, it says " This winer time, you waste your life, you reign, you die, you wait, you cry, This time in the light, A small flame in the night, you come you bend, you burn, you burn, you burn"

Some info to think about:

Government Paper definition:

Any debt security, such as a Treasury Bill or a Ginnie Mae, either guaranteed by the issuer or backed by the U.S. government.

I can't find a definition for the word "snibe" outside of Urban Dictionary, so...I have no idea how to interpret the band's use of the word as the title. But I definitely don't think it's a song that's derogatory towards poor people. I've always gotten the exact opposite vibes from it.

"we stand in the marketplace with cold september eyes on the hungry people we passed the interrogation signed our names at the bottom of the government paper"

The singer has the POV of someone who's part of a group that looks down on the impoverished masses. The POV of someone who has joined "the system" and is indifferent to the struggles of the hungry and unfortunate in society.

"you reign you die you wait you cry this time in the light small flame in the night you come you bend you burn

sick enough to infect me but too far gone to protect me"

This part sounds more like it's an outside narrator describing the previous person, or perhaps one of the people on the impoverished side of the fence. The person who's looking down on the masses is themself not all-powerful: they're probably a small-time politician or government official who has sold out and stepped on other people to try to gain power, and has had a tumultuous experience doing so. They ended up being only a "small flame in the night." They're a poisonous part of the system, making people "sick," but not strong enough to actually make any significant changes to society, to "protect" anyone.

anyway I feel like it's a hugely political song, painting images of disenfranchised masses protesting the indifferent privileged people in power who don't help them.

I think this song is related to starving children in Africa (literally) and the Chorus is explaining how we just read the newspapers about it and we don't care. As long as we're safe, we're happy. The Government Paper part I believe shows that. Just my two cents.