"we're all kind of marooned in this place where information and ideas become very abstract, but yet the hyena is still tearing at the flesh."- Tom Waits about this song.
Yeah, he's saying actions speak louder than words, and while politicians fight with words and try to change things with ideas, we are being shot, stabbed, beat up, carjacked and robbed. They won't raise the minimum wage, they won't reform low-income locations, it's like they're the spectators who say "let's kill the poor but make it look like they're killing each other".
It certainly feels like it at times.
"we're all kind of marooned in this place where information and ideas become very abstract, but yet the hyena is still tearing at the flesh."- Tom Waits about this song.
Yeah, he's saying actions speak louder than words, and while politicians fight with words and try to change things with ideas, we are being shot, stabbed, beat up, carjacked and robbed. They won't raise the minimum wage, they won't reform low-income locations, it's like they're the spectators who say "let's kill the poor but make it look like they're killing each other".