Fire for the hills pick up your feet and lets go.
Head for the hills pick up steel on your way.
And when you find a piece of them in your site,
fire at will, don't you waste no time.
Another thought of the unaware,
addiction in disguise.
With a drop of blood,
you will take them out, for me.
Fire from the hills pick up speed and lets go.
Fire for real, yeah shoot to kill with no aim.
Head for the hills, yes eyes on the camp fire glow.
Creep up there like a white mink hiding in snow.
And outta black a figure forms a soldier in the sky.
With a drop of love, trying to set you free.
Run for the hills, pick up your feet and lets go.
We did our jobs, pick up speed now lets move.
The trees cant grow without the sun in their eyes.
And we can't live if we're too afraid to die.
Hold on tight, yes hold on tight you're too slow.
Fire at the breeze that blows these thoughts through our mind.
Hire only thieves to steal the thoughts from our heads.
Head for the hills pick up steel on your way.
And when you find a piece of them in your site,
fire at will, don't you waste no time.
Another thought of the unaware,
addiction in disguise.
With a drop of blood,
you will take them out, for me.
Fire from the hills pick up speed and lets go.
Fire for real, yeah shoot to kill with no aim.
Head for the hills, yes eyes on the camp fire glow.
Creep up there like a white mink hiding in snow.
And outta black a figure forms a soldier in the sky.
With a drop of love, trying to set you free.
Run for the hills, pick up your feet and lets go.
We did our jobs, pick up speed now lets move.
The trees cant grow without the sun in their eyes.
And we can't live if we're too afraid to die.
Hold on tight, yes hold on tight you're too slow.
Fire at the breeze that blows these thoughts through our mind.
Hire only thieves to steal the thoughts from our heads.
Lyrics submitted by ecorchee1
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That's my opinion, anyway. I choose to have a more complicated and personal view to the song rather than "WAR IZ BADZZZZ" like most of the other posters. (Note that I am a pacifist and dislike war, but I choose to not be a cock-hole about it. ^_^)
Regardless, this is one of my favorite songs of all time. Say I'm wrong if you'd like, as I truly could care less.
The first verse seems to come from the perspective of the person ordering the young man into combat, while the last one reflects on the lingering emotional scars from the battle that just went down. The title "Young Men Dead" could also be taken to mean that while the subject of the song has survived, his innocence is gone and he's emotionally numb to everything he's experienced.
I don't think the song refers to any battle specifically, although it easily reminds me of scenes from Vietnam movies where soldiers are sneaking through the jungles and fields in the dead of night. I first heard it in the trailer for Person of Interest Season 4, and it seems very poignant for a show with the theme of constant warfare.
1. "And outta black a figure forms a soldier in the sky.
With a drop of love, trying to set you free."
Obviously a reference to a helicopter or fighter jet ("outta black a figure forms a soldier in the sky") dropping napalm or some form of high grade explosive ("with a drop of love") on a group of civilians under the pretext of liberation ("trying to set you free") .
2. "Run for the hills, pick up your feet and lets go.
We did our jobs, pick up speed now lets move."
This is a reference to an officer telling his troops to leave a battle scene ("Run for the hills, pick up your feet and lets go") after the massacre and justifying the immorality of their act in the typical way that professional killers do ("We did our jobs...").
3. "Fire at the breeze that blows these thoughts through our mind.
Hire only thieves to steal the thoughts from our heads."
This ending lyric elaborates the final battle which every surviving soldier faces -the internal, psychological trauma which violent warfare imprints upon their minds and how they must expel them from their being in order to renter civilian society. ("Fire at the at the breeze that blows these thoughts through our mind.") The final line about hiring "thieves to steal the thoughts from our heads" may refer to drug dependencies like alcohol, heroin, etc. that will dull the violent memories of what they had done in war.
With a drop of blood,
you will take them out, for me.
Killing for your country.
I love the sound of the gritty guitar, it just seems to grind and roll its way through the entire 5 minutes
It is saying take on society for the things they are trying to make us believe.
And for those who insist that it's about revolutions, I don't want to make presumptions but is there a chance you got that idea in your head from the Fable III commercials and their tagline, "It's a Revolution"? :P