I heard this song on the day the CD was released and right then, nobody understood, after a while, you see what Serj Tankians talking about, with his list of stories of cops who could have died, blaming another at a restaurant (pointing a finger) then when he lists icicles, bicycles, shoestrings, and a flag, hes saying a list of random distractions and then tossing in a patriotic flag to stand by, basically what he thinks the government does to you, shows you ludacris things to distract you from there actions, but makes you stand by those actions as if they were your own, just because you should obey your country and have some liberty but not know a single thing there doing. All there songs are basically long drawn out, hard to interpret, hit and runs on the government.
I heard this song on the day the CD was released and right then, nobody understood, after a while, you see what Serj Tankians talking about, with his list of stories of cops who could have died, blaming another at a restaurant (pointing a finger) then when he lists icicles, bicycles, shoestrings, and a flag, hes saying a list of random distractions and then tossing in a patriotic flag to stand by, basically what he thinks the government does to you, shows you ludacris things to distract you from there actions, but makes you stand by those actions as if they were your own, just because you should obey your country and have some liberty but not know a single thing there doing. All there songs are basically long drawn out, hard to interpret, hit and runs on the government.