When I listen to "Sign In Stranger" it's 2:00 in the afternoon, anywhere America, and I hear a recruiter, ex military, maybe CIA, parked at a corner table in a seedy bar, talking some guy just out of the army, navy, maybe marines. The recruiter is pitching "off-the-books" work. The guy is broke, guilt-ridden, maybe heartbroken, and clearly easy to impress. The recruiter knows the right lingo, the right pitch, the right way to state his offer without being specific so as to manipulate this guy into joining the "Dark Services" for mercenary work as this guy has killed before as a soldier and this guy will likely kill again for the right money and the right distraction. The recruiter, for effect, slams his hand on the table, leans over to the guy, stares him in the eyes and says:
"You zombie
Be born again my friend
Won't you sign in stranger".
@juni0rbarns145 An interesting take. I always envision a lifelong criminal who is "wanted" practically everywhere, being told about (or traveling to, or arriving at) a pirate planet populated by a society of criminal scofflaws who offer (among other things) an identity laundry that can set him up with a new identity (for a price, of course).
@juni0rbarns145 An interesting take. I always envision a lifelong criminal who is "wanted" practically everywhere, being told about (or traveling to, or arriving at) a pirate planet populated by a society of criminal scofflaws who offer (among other things) an identity laundry that can set him up with a new identity (for a price, of course).
When I listen to "Sign In Stranger" it's 2:00 in the afternoon, anywhere America, and I hear a recruiter, ex military, maybe CIA, parked at a corner table in a seedy bar, talking some guy just out of the army, navy, maybe marines. The recruiter is pitching "off-the-books" work. The guy is broke, guilt-ridden, maybe heartbroken, and clearly easy to impress. The recruiter knows the right lingo, the right pitch, the right way to state his offer without being specific so as to manipulate this guy into joining the "Dark Services" for mercenary work as this guy has killed before as a soldier and this guy will likely kill again for the right money and the right distraction. The recruiter, for effect, slams his hand on the table, leans over to the guy, stares him in the eyes and says:
"You zombie Be born again my friend Won't you sign in stranger".
@juni0rbarns145 An interesting take. I always envision a lifelong criminal who is "wanted" practically everywhere, being told about (or traveling to, or arriving at) a pirate planet populated by a society of criminal scofflaws who offer (among other things) an identity laundry that can set him up with a new identity (for a price, of course).
@juni0rbarns145 An interesting take. I always envision a lifelong criminal who is "wanted" practically everywhere, being told about (or traveling to, or arriving at) a pirate planet populated by a society of criminal scofflaws who offer (among other things) an identity laundry that can set him up with a new identity (for a price, of course).