Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000 Lyrics

Lyric discussion by janeaparis1 

Cover art for Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000 lyrics by Have a Nice Life

People reading into it too much. This song is about The Terminator.

/ / Everything you do is planned out in advance / / the stars push their dark wills down on you

This is pretty obvious as the entire Terminator film is based on time travel and destiny.

/ / and wolves all tear themselves apart better in packs / / that's just a function we'll have to work on through

A statement about war and humanity. How we built the machines to kill ourselves.

/ / we are machines that eat and breathe and look really cool / / you're reacting just the way I thought you would

Arnold being really bad-ass with his sunglasses and shit. Knowing Sarah Connor and her behavior from information from the future and his being able to anticipate her actions.

/ / but I've replaced my heart with metal parts / / and I'm working just fine, but I can't get it to start

Being mechanical, and while having the equivalent of a heart, lacking the emotions that are associated with having one.

/ / we are machines that breathe and weep and look really good trained to kill / / send me back in time and I'll bring us back in line / / just tell me who's mother I have to kill

I don't think I need to explain these lines at all.

/ / I'm fine like I've always been, except I don't remember-when / / my conscience didn't act up again

The Terminator obviously has never had a conscious, and never will know what it's like to have one. He's content with his mission.

/ / we're living on borrowed time / / and it looks like they want it back

The machines want to terminate the humans and start a new era.

The song obviously has some deeper meaning attached to it, but they're using terminator as a metaphor/the context for their ideas.

@janeaparis1 I won't go into specifics but all of the lines could fit better in the Warhammer 40k universe except the back in time one (tho I could see how it might fit). Also this: https://mobile.twitter.com/enemieslist/status/26777164737?lang=en