Story Behind The Song

Sometimes there are songs that just come out of you without really knowing why or where they come from. This is one of those. One morning at about 2 a.m. the verse lyrics just flowed out, and a couple weeks later when the music was written, the seemingly unrelated chorus just fell in place. This song is best way i have come up with to explain my contempt for the social pressure to conform.

Song Description

Up tempo driving rythem layered with simple melodic guitar and thought provoking social commentary delivered in an aggressive rap flavored syle.

Lyrics

To live and die and what does it mean
And I welcome you to passivity
Is it comforting
Or should I
Pop that purple pill
To keep my stomachs ills from surfacing
I don?t want to taste it
Can?t I just erase it
And cover it with a corporate smile
Cause I?ve walked your forty miles

To give and take and where?s the line
I?ve stepped right over it all the time
It?s fine no one really minds
Until the day you hear about a Columbine
Then finally, middle class mothers, turn to fathers
And ask why you turned in my brothers
For the millions and millions of times I?ve crossed the line
And the millions of times I?ve washed the plates
From which they?ve ate
Cause I?m unemployable in the lower 48 states

(Chorus)
I don?t have it within me
I don?t know who this be
I don?t know where he may go
I don?t know I don?t
I didn?t hear you sing to me
I don?t hold it innerly
I don?t know what time or road
I don?t owe, I don?t owe

The give and take trade lust for faith
So much I risk and have at stake
For my contempt I?ll burn your fuckin flag
Light a cigarette, stand tall, and salute to the nations wake
The scars have there place
Where the street hits my face
I?ve learned to cover them with a social smile
Cause I?ve been walking you 40 fuckin miles
For one more week just one of the meek
Just lost with Bo Peeps heard of lost sheep

(Chorus)

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Unkljer	My Top Songs	9/10/2007
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