I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Calling all rednecks
To put down their sluggers
And turn their attention
From beating the buggers
Pick up machine guns
And kill camel-f*ckers
Backwoods nation
Calling all doctors
Of spin and the smokescreen
To whip the new patriots
Into a frenzy
Of good versus evil
Ignoring the history
Of the backwoods nation
Ain't it a shame?
When due process
Stands in the way
Of swift justice
Calling all frat boys
To trade in their hazing
Their keggers and cocaine
And casual date-raping
For cabinet appointments
And rose garden tapings
Backwoods, backwoods, backwoods nation
To put down their sluggers
And turn their attention
From beating the buggers
Pick up machine guns
And kill camel-f*ckers
Backwoods nation
Calling all doctors
Of spin and the smokescreen
To whip the new patriots
Into a frenzy
Of good versus evil
Ignoring the history
Of the backwoods nation
Ain't it a shame?
When due process
Stands in the way
Of swift justice
Calling all frat boys
To trade in their hazing
Their keggers and cocaine
And casual date-raping
For cabinet appointments
And rose garden tapings
Backwoods, backwoods, backwoods nation
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i'd love to hear this song, if i'm correct, it's on a compilation cd or something. i'm sure david will be getting plenty of poop for dropping the "f bomb" on this song, but as with many of his songs, it's not from his perspective. and unless i'm wrong, david has said that his view on cursing is that if it's used to express something better, it's ok, but if it's used to put something down, it's wrong. well, the lyrics on this song are pretty good, i'm ready to actually hear the song.
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Something interesting about his dropping the "f-bomb" is when asked, he said that that is how he regularly talked, so why shouldn't he use it in his songs? I was a bit unsure of this because he never cursed at his shows, but then I read some other interview where he got mad and it was in there quite a bit. But good call fatagainstthin, as long as its for something good, who cares?
if you're a christian and you cuss, i don't think it's a bad thing. the end.
i just saw pedro live this week, and they did this song...it was amazing, especially since i saw them about 3 hours after we started bombing Iraq... :(
"We were on tour on September 11. We woke up in Chicago that morning. By September 13 I was really furious. I couldn’t believe the way we were responding to that event as a country. The indignation was so beyond me. The first verse and the bridge came out in four or five minutes. It was very cathartic for me. "- David Bazan
A correction
In line ten, "patriots" is actually a play on words, it's "hate-triots"
Also in line two it's "sluggers" not "sluggard"
Calling all frat boys To trade in their hazing Their keggers and cocaine And casual date-raping For cabinet appointments And rose garden tapings
love it