The thing that always blows me away about this song is the sheer skill of Steve Conte's guitar playing. Such clean chord voicings and tone, plus the colours of percussiveness when he hits the wood of the guitar...what a pro. I know Yoko-sama is behind all the music but Conte has it down.
But yeah, this song is about humans today and how bad they are treating a) one another ("You want glory, I need none", "Some people live free/Some people just want more") and b) the world ("Some people are always reachin' for some things they don't need/I tell you now/With thoughts like that there will never be enough", "Can you tell me really, you don't need it, you don't want it?").
Pretty profound lyrical message, i like it.
I'm musing over the 'title' line: "If you were offered some, would you wanna bite the hand?
Would you betray a friend to prove you're cold and then walk away?"
I think it might be saying something about how all humans do is take whatever they want, if only to prove that they're higher ("prove you're cold") and more dominant than all the other species on earth.
The thing that always blows me away about this song is the sheer skill of Steve Conte's guitar playing. Such clean chord voicings and tone, plus the colours of percussiveness when he hits the wood of the guitar...what a pro. I know Yoko-sama is behind all the music but Conte has it down.
But yeah, this song is about humans today and how bad they are treating a) one another ("You want glory, I need none", "Some people live free/Some people just want more") and b) the world ("Some people are always reachin' for some things they don't need/I tell you now/With thoughts like that there will never be enough", "Can you tell me really, you don't need it, you don't want it?"). Pretty profound lyrical message, i like it.
I'm musing over the 'title' line: "If you were offered some, would you wanna bite the hand? Would you betray a friend to prove you're cold and then walk away?" I think it might be saying something about how all humans do is take whatever they want, if only to prove that they're higher ("prove you're cold") and more dominant than all the other species on earth.