Lyric discussion by Im Iranian 

Cover art for Needles lyrics by System of a Down

thats all well and good, all this actually makes alot of sense with drugs and stuff, it goes perfect wit the lyrics, unfortunatly u are all wrong except for someone up there. SERJ HIMSELF PLAINLY STATED IN AN INTERVIVIEW - this song is about the human race bieng a parasite to the earth. let me elaborate

the planet was very healthy and animals and everything lived on it nad it was all good. then the human race came. we tore it up, made buildings tore trees down, took every animal and claimed it as our own and killed, ate, wore, caged, sucked the life out of the planet. we are destroying the planet, the human race is a diesease.

now about the song, the song is in the viewpoint of the earth. we are the tapeworm, we control the earth, we tell it wat to do, we dominated it. we wisper up to it in our life of tragedy. we cant live naturally, we need technology and wat not so we take the earh apart and suit to our own needs. then we slither up to it in our pimping majesty, meaning the human race is also spoiled. like cavemen we could have lived one with the earth like every other species, btu we became spoiled and the result is todays modern world. we took it apart. and that is exactly wat the song is about, out of SOAD's mouth, not about drugs or anything. i am not sure wat darons part means but i know wat the song in general means. also it is saying that teh human race should be ridden from the earth so it can be free, no more depleting natural resources

your right....all weve done as a race is kill the only life supporting plenet in the universe......and shit our pants

your right....all weve done as a race is kill the only life supporting plenet in the universe......and shit our pants

@Im Iranian I can see where you are coming from ... however people are not "wrong" per se, as all songs are interpretative so therefore everyone will take a different meaning out of it. Unless the song is explicit in it's message the lyrics are deliberately made ambiguous to ensure different people can take different messages from it.