Boyz Lyrics

Lyric discussion by azile358 

Cover art for Boyz lyrics by M.I.A.

wow.... M.I.A. has out-done herself once more. I love how shes totally dissing war. sending boys to war, ignorant, young, naive,just tryin to defend their country in this bullshit war. M.I.A. also may be trying to tell how all these boys in the world just resort to violence due to the influence of the war... i dont know, you can interpret anyway you want. wow.... im bored, i guess its kinda sad if im writing like a bigillion comments for "fun" during my second period class.... M.I.A. is a lot better than writng a paper on LSD. ha! wow, im lame as hell.

This is not about war, like in army and iraq invasion or whaever... The "war" is this song is the struggle to survival on gangs and criminal environments at poor communities (as pointed HeavyLid above).

The repeated "how many" question is a headcount to fight (per example, against another gang or drug dealer), and poor young boys are enlisted for liquor, drugs and small amounts of money... And how many of those have to die before politicians do anything?