While We Were Hunting Rabbits Lyrics

Lyric discussion by The cage 

Cover art for While We Were Hunting Rabbits lyrics by Matthew Good Band

I think this song is about trying to find yourself in society. You begin to realize how much you're giving into society and not getting enough back for your hard work. If you wanted to sum up the song, I think the last two lines would suffice: I'm just a boat on the ocean/And I'm just a ship lost at sea.

And I think rabbits represent helpless human beings. Like the narrative is a soldier, or some kind of oppressing or violent figure who's hunting rabbits, that is to say defenseless people. And then he starts to question himself about what he's doing.