"Tourists rob you of your home
In sunken boats
And you can hide quiet as a mouse
But they'll find you out
And she aked me why have you felt
So down and out
You can stay with me at my house"
She offers him a place to stay while the warfare goes on near where he lives.
"When I woke my back was broke from lyin on the floor
Sunlight poured through all the cracks in my front door"
I figure this means they were bombed or something; either way his home was destroyed while he was away hiding.
The song is telling us to WAKE UP because we have so much to do here on earth. There is so much bad shit going on, and for the most part, we sit back and ignore it or hide, and we don't do anything ot help. He's also telling the people effected by the war to stand up and do whatever they can. Do not back down, do not go down without a fight.
Anyway, it goes on about this guy's story, and how wherever he lives is still wartorn and he's managed to raise a son in these conditions. (Or, perhaps, it's a different story altogether at this point.)
"Tourists robbed me of my child
They smoked him out
He was draft dodgin some war
Till they found him out
And he came wanderin in the night
to his mom and me
And he said times, they gotta change,
but so do we."
The most important lines being the last two.
"Times, they gotta change, but so do we."
No more cowering, especially if this stuff is happening to you. Fight fght fight, wake up and do something.
"When I woke I was alive in somebody's room
I felt life and love and hope infesting my bones."
This is followed by, once again, "Wake up." because the singer doesn't think this is the attitude you should have towards said war. Hiding with someone else, feeling gratitude, that's all great and good, but it's missing the MOTIVATION and the PASSION to fight and defend yourself.
"When I woke my body was dyin all over the floor
I felt apathy and hate infesting my bones."
Now there's a space in the music after these lines, BEFORE it goes to "Wake up!" I think, because this IS the way to feel about it. Feel angry, feel violated-- because you ARE being violated. And do something about it.
The only problem I have with this is "apathy", which doesn't make much sense in that line. Because you can't feel apathy AND hate, seeing as apathy is the absence of emotion. So what I make out of that is, perhaps, apathy is used to mean a dull sense of "I'm so tired of this happening.", where you're right about to give up and not even take the effort to care anymore, and THEN this person starts feeling the hate in their bones, therefore motivating them.
That's what this song meant to me, anyway. I think hate can be a good motivator if you don't le it blind you. After all, if people hadn't hated how things were in the past and done something about them, imagine life today.
I think this song is clearly about war.
"Tourists rob you of your home In sunken boats And you can hide quiet as a mouse But they'll find you out And she aked me why have you felt So down and out You can stay with me at my house"
She offers him a place to stay while the warfare goes on near where he lives.
"When I woke my back was broke from lyin on the floor Sunlight poured through all the cracks in my front door"
I figure this means they were bombed or something; either way his home was destroyed while he was away hiding.
The song is telling us to WAKE UP because we have so much to do here on earth. There is so much bad shit going on, and for the most part, we sit back and ignore it or hide, and we don't do anything ot help. He's also telling the people effected by the war to stand up and do whatever they can. Do not back down, do not go down without a fight.
Anyway, it goes on about this guy's story, and how wherever he lives is still wartorn and he's managed to raise a son in these conditions. (Or, perhaps, it's a different story altogether at this point.)
"Tourists robbed me of my child They smoked him out He was draft dodgin some war Till they found him out And he came wanderin in the night to his mom and me
And he said times, they gotta change, but so do we."
The most important lines being the last two. "Times, they gotta change, but so do we." No more cowering, especially if this stuff is happening to you. Fight fght fight, wake up and do something.
"When I woke I was alive in somebody's room I felt life and love and hope infesting my bones."
This is followed by, once again, "Wake up." because the singer doesn't think this is the attitude you should have towards said war. Hiding with someone else, feeling gratitude, that's all great and good, but it's missing the MOTIVATION and the PASSION to fight and defend yourself.
"When I woke my body was dyin all over the floor I felt apathy and hate infesting my bones."
Now there's a space in the music after these lines, BEFORE it goes to "Wake up!" I think, because this IS the way to feel about it. Feel angry, feel violated-- because you ARE being violated. And do something about it.
The only problem I have with this is "apathy", which doesn't make much sense in that line. Because you can't feel apathy AND hate, seeing as apathy is the absence of emotion. So what I make out of that is, perhaps, apathy is used to mean a dull sense of "I'm so tired of this happening.", where you're right about to give up and not even take the effort to care anymore, and THEN this person starts feeling the hate in their bones, therefore motivating them.
That's what this song meant to me, anyway. I think hate can be a good motivator if you don't le it blind you. After all, if people hadn't hated how things were in the past and done something about them, imagine life today.
This song really gets my blood pumping.