Lyric discussion by thisUser 

Cover art for Thetawaves lyrics by System of a Down

Thinker1 has the right idea. I would only say that the second verse perhaps implies this: that the national debt is an ally, because it is something that gets our attention (towards the non-sense the government is doing in america). This leaves the people to fend for themselves, to be self-reliant and self-responsible (in my view: most of society has given up its self-responsibility to the government for security which doesn't really exist) and the people collect undeniable data (the information age, age of aquarius, age of revelation) about advanced wave technologies (hinting at the universe being composed of waves). And of course, this then leads to the people (the masses) finding out the lies of the government and those who control/influence the government.

Now we "all rise" to the awakening movement of taking back our personal power and responsibility and I suppose dispose of the government, as we ought to incorporate an internal self-government (because I believe we all have the capacity for much greater things than this mundane earth society is distracted with at the time)

@dlb1980 I also for a while thought Serj was saying census, but it makes more sense to me that he says "senses" in context of "the unsettled mind" and "Beta-carotenes and thetawaves" all revolving around the human body.

Beta-carotene is what the body uses to produce Vitamin A, which is linked to cancer prevention and many other disease preventions. This, to me, reminds me of my belief of the human body being a perfect system of harmony, only showing sickness or disease because of the toxic stresses (poor food quality, chemtrails, biological tests done by the military, did I mention poor food quality and standards?) and psychological stresses.... ( oh ya.. television as a drug..like an opiate..trancing people, then feeding people messages that nurture a mentality of scarcity and unbalance and disease...dis-ease..). So I feel Serj in the first verse is alluding to our RE-discovery of natural health (I say RE because I assume humans were at some point before now [probably when we were still nomads or in tribes] perfectly healthy and never had illness...until mainstream society came to life. corrupting our way of living..now leading into a materialistic orgy of splurging on immediate urges) and this natural health is achieved through getting the right nutrients (Which food nowadays is lacking of, since mineral levels in soils keep depleting as we reap/rape the earth for profit without taking care of it) and thetawaves (implying meditation to calm and expand the mind from the commonly scattered state to enlightenment...perhaps even becoming beings of light, existing in a higher dimensional form....hmm)

PS HardRockRules, you got it too =] I like your view on it.

I feel Thinker1 got the chorus very well, so I won't repost what he did :) Perhaps I am missing something else though?

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Oh and to add to my point on advanced wave technologies...

High pulse weapons and microwaves...

The US military has (for a while now) been experimenting and now creating weapons utilizing waves instead of matter. Much more effective, but more destructive at the same time...

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Soon...when we fall under the rule of a new world order and one world government, all PEOPLE will be united and we can stand against the government as ONE WORLD of people for a single cause. A greater union of spirit....perhaps there is hope for us afterall....

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