The Battle of Hampton Roads Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bazacko 

Cover art for The Battle of Hampton Roads lyrics by Titus Andronicus

The beginning alludes to the actual battle of Hampton Roads. This song is basically an indictment of humanity, and a call to solidarity, to rejecting what you've been told and trusting yourself. At the end, it seems to describe a punk who knows he'd be nothing without mainstream society to rebel against.

I don't feel that this song is a call to solidarity, due to the line "solidarity's gonna give a little less than it'll take." I seems like it is the realization that the protagonist's internal civil war (the desire to be a better person vs embracing what you already are) is a draw, just the like the Battle oh Hampton Roads