Were you in high school when Columbine happened? Do you remember how right afterward every adult authority figure wanted to "talk" to you about it to "reassure" you, when what they were really doing was trying to reassure themselves. How they saw you and your choice in video games, music, clothes, as a sign that you might be a potential threat. How after that day in April every adult now saw you as a potential killer. This is a song, superficially from the point of view of one of those very concerned authority figures, but that in reality represents the internalization of the fear and loathing that those of us unfortunate enough to be of a certain age on April 20th 1999 underwent and the violence it did to us.
Were you in high school when Columbine happened? Do you remember how right afterward every adult authority figure wanted to "talk" to you about it to "reassure" you, when what they were really doing was trying to reassure themselves. How they saw you and your choice in video games, music, clothes, as a sign that you might be a potential threat. How after that day in April every adult now saw you as a potential killer. This is a song, superficially from the point of view of one of those very concerned authority figures, but that in reality represents the internalization of the fear and loathing that those of us unfortunate enough to be of a certain age on April 20th 1999 underwent and the violence it did to us.