its about war. maybe "red brush...look i made america" is about blood, and america's involvement in a lot of wars. " dont try to care too much" is to me about people becoming unfeeling killing machines.
the third stanza makes me think of some terrifying nightmare "counting sheep" and the music is consistent with a nightmare... in keeping with the war theme, PTSD maybe?
"cutting by numbers is kinder" - genocide or slaughter
"invest in one with a silencer. All of the studies say if theyre calm when they die they taste better" - this is a bit outside the square, but i see that as saying if you keep whatever events quiet (silent), and calm, it tastes better only because the media cant get to a story if its been silenced.
the last stanza is definitrly about regret. regretting that one was in a war? maybe they lost their friends/family? but regret all the same.
I kind of thought the same thing as mixitup. The song reminded me of another song by A Perfect Circle. It goes like "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum" which rather explicit in its message about how lives are taken by war every second, but America seems lulled by the numbers, unaffected by the carnage. I find "The Sheep Song" much more poetic in this comparison, however.
I kind of thought the same thing as mixitup. The song reminded me of another song by A Perfect Circle. It goes like "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum" which rather explicit in its message about how lives are taken by war every second, but America seems lulled by the numbers, unaffected by the carnage. I find "The Sheep Song" much more poetic in this comparison, however.
Then again, I think I try to relate every song I hear to politics... :|
Then again, I think I try to relate every song I hear to politics... :|
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its about war. maybe "red brush...look i made america" is about blood, and america's involvement in a lot of wars. " dont try to care too much" is to me about people becoming unfeeling killing machines.
the third stanza makes me think of some terrifying nightmare "counting sheep" and the music is consistent with a nightmare... in keeping with the war theme, PTSD maybe?
"cutting by numbers is kinder" - genocide or slaughter
"invest in one with a silencer. All of the studies say if theyre calm when they die they taste better" - this is a bit outside the square, but i see that as saying if you keep whatever events quiet (silent), and calm, it tastes better only because the media cant get to a story if its been silenced.
the last stanza is definitrly about regret. regretting that one was in a war? maybe they lost their friends/family? but regret all the same.
and thats my very crazy thought.
I kind of thought the same thing as mixitup. The song reminded me of another song by A Perfect Circle. It goes like "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum" which rather explicit in its message about how lives are taken by war every second, but America seems lulled by the numbers, unaffected by the carnage. I find "The Sheep Song" much more poetic in this comparison, however.
I kind of thought the same thing as mixitup. The song reminded me of another song by A Perfect Circle. It goes like "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum" which rather explicit in its message about how lives are taken by war every second, but America seems lulled by the numbers, unaffected by the carnage. I find "The Sheep Song" much more poetic in this comparison, however.
Then again, I think I try to relate every song I hear to politics... :|
Then again, I think I try to relate every song I hear to politics... :|
@mixitup - I agree with all of this.
@mixitup - I agree with all of this.