Lyric discussion by rosshahaha 

Cover art for Take These Hands and Throw Them in the River lyrics by A Silver Mt. Zion

I am guessing that this song is about how useless you become to "the cause" (in this band's case, the cause would be general social change that would end with anarchism) by both impairing yourself with drugs (you could be using your time for activism and the like is what I see it to be saying) and/or putting yourself at risk of being jailed, which would basically suspend you from the "revolutionary" process.

still, death to sXe. it makes me want to puke.