Lyric discussion by CHOOSE BRONZE 

Cover art for Holy Roman lyrics by Get Up Kids, The

If you study the romans, we are surprisingly similair in many aspects of our customs and civilization, I'm not going to give a history lesson, but I was startled to learn how we are repeating history (not just our government, but everything we do as a people, its all been done and a lot was done by the romans)

"take stock in a (the) master plan" is what I heard, and it makes more sense, "get stuck" has a more accusatory tone than the rest of the song. I think the land mine analogy is a great one, a reference to vietnam/ww2 i think

laslty, although the political overtones are obvious, I think matt is still making refernce to friendships/relationships gone wrong, as many of the lines could mean both: Friend stabbing friend Come clean like you said you would Make peace like i know you could maybe thats just me