The rain and the bass riff right at the beginning give this song away. The bass is dark and low, reminding me of "Rooster", by Alice in Chains, and numerous Rage Against the Machine songs. Then when the bass stops the guitar does a high solo riff, and it immediately gets louder, like the calm before the storm. "Push becomes shove, days become months, I seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun", is just describing how terrible the environment is, and how one hostile action leads to a reciprocated action by the other side, and he is becoming numb to it. and the second verse, from "Shackled the grapple and the sentinels found", to "Sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires", is describing how everyone is turning on everyone else, a net is flung over the civilians in the auditorium, binoculars see cardboard refugee camps, and discipline is falling apart, thus "no call to arms". This could be describing Vietnam, or just as easily, any other conflict.
"Have trigger, will travel", is a play on words. When something is (supposedly)beneficial, one could say "Have [nameless thing], will travel." I think it used to be an advertising slogan.
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found
binoculars watch cardboard towns
strung up in webs the net was flung
over the auditorium
slave trade the weak, no call to arms
sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires
push becomes shove, days become months
and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found
binoculars watch cardboard towns
strung up in webs the net was flung
over the auditorium
slave trade the weak, no call to arms
sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires
push becomes shove, days become months
and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
This verse I will break down into groups:
This verse I will break down into groups:
Shackled and grapple a sentinels is found"
A person is tied up in life and fighting back hints grapple.Binoculars watch cardboard towns"....He or she wants us to look at life through their eyes and see how fabercatied everything is, how were all the same just different shapes and sizes like a "cardboard box".....slave trade the weak no call to arms"....stay away from the people that are bring you down shut them out like a master does to his slave....and if you give in you will infects like the rest a conformist....but all this is causing a great deal of dispeare...and you just forget the little things in lofe that make you happy...."I've seem to forggoten the warmth of the sun"
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found
binoculars watch cardboard towns
strung up in webs the net was flung
over the auditorium
slave trade the weak, no call to arms
sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires
push becomes shove, days become months
and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found
binoculars watch cardboard towns
strung up in webs the net was flung
over the auditorium
slave trade the weak, no call to arms
sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires
push becomes shove, days become months
and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
This verse I will break down into groups:
This verse I will break down into groups:
Shackled and grapple a sentinels is found"
A person is tied up in life and fighting back hints grapple.Binoculars watch cardboard towns"....He or she wants us to look at life through their eyes and see how fabercatied everything is, how were all the same just different shapes and sizes like a "cardboard box".....slave trade the weak no call to arms"....stay away from the people that are bring you down shut them out like a master does to his slave....and if you give in you will infects like the rest a conformist....but all this is causing a great deal of dispeare...and you just forget the little things in lofe that make you happy...."I've seem to forggoten the warmth of the sun"
The rain and the bass riff right at the beginning give this song away. The bass is dark and low, reminding me of "Rooster", by Alice in Chains, and numerous Rage Against the Machine songs. Then when the bass stops the guitar does a high solo riff, and it immediately gets louder, like the calm before the storm. "Push becomes shove, days become months, I seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun", is just describing how terrible the environment is, and how one hostile action leads to a reciprocated action by the other side, and he is becoming numb to it. and the second verse, from "Shackled the grapple and the sentinels found", to "Sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires", is describing how everyone is turning on everyone else, a net is flung over the civilians in the auditorium, binoculars see cardboard refugee camps, and discipline is falling apart, thus "no call to arms". This could be describing Vietnam, or just as easily, any other conflict.
"Have trigger, will travel", is a play on words. When something is (supposedly)beneficial, one could say "Have [nameless thing], will travel." I think it used to be an advertising slogan.
-tom
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found binoculars watch cardboard towns strung up in webs the net was flung over the auditorium slave trade the weak, no call to arms sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires push becomes shove, days become months and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found binoculars watch cardboard towns strung up in webs the net was flung over the auditorium slave trade the weak, no call to arms sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires push becomes shove, days become months and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
This verse I will break down into groups:
This verse I will break down into groups:
Shackled and grapple a sentinels is found" A person is tied up in life and fighting back hints grapple.Binoculars watch cardboard towns"....He or she wants us to look at life through their eyes and see how fabercatied everything is, how were all the same just different shapes and sizes like a "cardboard box".....slave trade the weak no call to arms"....stay away from the people that are bring you down shut them out like a master does to his slave....and if you give in you will infects like the rest a conformist....but all this is causing a great deal of dispeare...and you just forget the little things in lofe that make you happy...."I've seem to forggoten the warmth of the sun"
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found binoculars watch cardboard towns strung up in webs the net was flung over the auditorium slave trade the weak, no call to arms sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires push becomes shove, days become months and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
"...shackled the grapple and the sentinels found binoculars watch cardboard towns strung up in webs the net was flung over the auditorium slave trade the weak, no call to arms sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires push becomes shove, days become months and i seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun..."
This verse I will break down into groups:
This verse I will break down into groups:
Shackled and grapple a sentinels is found" A person is tied up in life and fighting back hints grapple.Binoculars watch cardboard towns"....He or she wants us to look at life through their eyes and see how fabercatied everything is, how were all the same just different shapes and sizes like a "cardboard box".....slave trade the weak no call to arms"....stay away from the people that are bring you down shut them out like a master does to his slave....and if you give in you will infects like the rest a conformist....but all this is causing a great deal of dispeare...and you just forget the little things in lofe that make you happy...."I've seem to forggoten the warmth of the sun"