'but they wanna run through the air with no barriers or obstacles
gunmen or guard dogs or priests
and to rise from the mud and start over and over
with the people all dead'
To me, it seems like the prisoners just want to be freed and almost forget what it is that they've done, so their consciences will be light and 'run through the air.'
The mud seems like a play on the archetypal baptism and instead of being cleansed in water, they can overcome their crimes without being actually cleansed of them.
That, and the dead part seems like they truly hate the ones who judge them and in their angry mindsets, they want them all to die. xP
...And I could've sworn the line was 'and oh, I do swallow,' a reference to oral sex.
'but they wanna run through the air with no barriers or obstacles gunmen or guard dogs or priests and to rise from the mud and start over and over with the people all dead' To me, it seems like the prisoners just want to be freed and almost forget what it is that they've done, so their consciences will be light and 'run through the air.' The mud seems like a play on the archetypal baptism and instead of being cleansed in water, they can overcome their crimes without being actually cleansed of them. That, and the dead part seems like they truly hate the ones who judge them and in their angry mindsets, they want them all to die. xP
...And I could've sworn the line was 'and oh, I do swallow,' a reference to oral sex.