Hyena Lyrics

Lyric discussion by WeNeedTheEggs 

Cover art for Hyena lyrics by Rancid

It's about his nomadic street kid life and the angst it caused. He's "absent from political authority" because he has nothing to lose. He's just some street punk with practically no identity. People were dying all around him... shit happened. When he says "sometimes the lion share ain't there" he means that sometimes he's left without a meal or maybe drugs whether it would've been stolen, given, or sold to him.