Lousy Pictures Lyrics

Lyric discussion by RaineBM1185 

Cover art for Lousy Pictures lyrics by Wolf Parade

i think the line "God made mistakes we through rocks at the sky Old cities where we built things high"

is a biblical reference to babylon. when humanity tried to build a tower to heaven, God separated people into different cultures by changing their language. by doing so, one could consider it a mistake. God separated the people, which is the cause for war. So the line "We threw rocks at the sky" is both figurative and literal. We're angry at God, so we throw rocks at Him in the sky, but also, he caused war, and we throw rocks into the sky at each other (rockets, missles, etc).

I really love that line. I think it's genius. If that's what they meant by it, anyway.