The chorus of this song seems pretty clear to me. "You and me, we will resurrect these dead streets" is pretty much literally AWS saying they and us (as their fans) will make the world a better place. We'll 'resurrect' the 'dead streets' of ghost cities where nobody talks to eachother anymore, and everybody is technically an enemy of one another.
The 'verses' (the first and third parts) are a lot harder though.
"Mama and papa got liquor
And gun stores
Torching this city down"
Probably describes in a short way what turned our cities (or society) into the "dead society" we need to resurrect; liquor and guns.
Then there's the recurring theme of "food";
"We went away to the mountains
To corporate restaurants,
Corporate food",
"When the mayor owns a pizza chain",
"We blame our diets on changes in mood"
I reckon this is AWS making a comparison with the music industry once again; the "mayor" is "the rich people" or "the government", and they "feed" people lies ("food"). The mayor owning a pizza chain would pretty much mean the "top" of a land (probably a [certain?] president) 'owns' the media and its ways of throwing lies at the populace.
Then there's
"I had a thought and i lost it
It was a monument, decent and pure"
I reckon that's the singer saying he had a thought (vision) of how great the world could be.
And lastly there's
"Took out a razor and made my own Picasso
Hold me when I'm ready now"
And I don't have the slightest clue how I should take this.
The chorus of this song seems pretty clear to me. "You and me, we will resurrect these dead streets" is pretty much literally AWS saying they and us (as their fans) will make the world a better place. We'll 'resurrect' the 'dead streets' of ghost cities where nobody talks to eachother anymore, and everybody is technically an enemy of one another.
The 'verses' (the first and third parts) are a lot harder though. "Mama and papa got liquor And gun stores Torching this city down" Probably describes in a short way what turned our cities (or society) into the "dead society" we need to resurrect; liquor and guns. Then there's the recurring theme of "food"; "We went away to the mountains To corporate restaurants, Corporate food", "When the mayor owns a pizza chain", "We blame our diets on changes in mood" I reckon this is AWS making a comparison with the music industry once again; the "mayor" is "the rich people" or "the government", and they "feed" people lies ("food"). The mayor owning a pizza chain would pretty much mean the "top" of a land (probably a [certain?] president) 'owns' the media and its ways of throwing lies at the populace. Then there's "I had a thought and i lost it It was a monument, decent and pure" I reckon that's the singer saying he had a thought (vision) of how great the world could be. And lastly there's "Took out a razor and made my own Picasso Hold me when I'm ready now" And I don't have the slightest clue how I should take this.