Lyrics for Feed Them to the 5 Lions (Linden) as interpreted by summerbabe

Feed Them to the 5 Lions (Linden) Lyrics
Every building same height
Every street a straight line
Two colors, yellow and blue

Cheerlead single-file
Perfect smiles, unaffected
And you won't forget
Our colors blue

No, you won't forget it

Twenty miles westward
Home of the Redbirds
Two colors crimson, blue

Open up your purses
For the boys who reimburse us
With a goal, line-stand
On fourth and two

And that goal, line-stand, ha!

Summer's dry and fallow
Reservoirs are shallow
Spillways unexposed

It's never been inspected
When the goverment's elected
That the fields
Will turn to yellow, too (oooh)

Now the fields will turn...

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rizzen
05-28-2002

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No idea what it means to me. Maybe it's about St. Louis? It's a great song either way.

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rizzen
05-28-2002

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Oh no .. it's about Kentucky and Louisville. Why would they write a song about a college football game?
Because they are(were) Pavement and they can!

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isotope23
03-08-2005

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"Two colors, yellow and blue"... actual lyric is "Team colors, yellow and blue". This is also the case for the lyric "Team colors crimson, blue".

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s7rugg1e
03-12-2005

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For me this has always been the easiest Pavement song to understand, with the usual Pavement "values":

People don't pay attention to the things they should.

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evilflex
12-12-2006

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I don't think it's about the Kentucky-Louisville rivalry but about the Cal-Stanfurd one. Pavement's from NorCal and Cal is blue and gold(yellow). Go Cal!!!

Either that or it's about a high school game from some teams i don't know.

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stickie pants
03-31-2007

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Linden CA is a small, insulated farming town about 20 miles east of Stockton CA, with one high school. Contrasted with Stockton, which is a larger diverse urban city, Linden is still very country and very white, with kids working on farms during the summer and football is a VERY big deal, like in other more rural areas across the country. Their mascot is, of course, the Linden Lions.
To me, this song is about that small town attitude towards high school football, that it is SO important to the community. As s7ugg1e said, it is about people not paying attention to the important things, or maybe even being able to ignore the fact that your small town is dying, and hide behind the pride of your local football team.

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step behind
07-25-2007

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I think all the members of Pavement are sports fans to some degree or another, so it's not surprising that they would write a song referencing football.

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ratanx
12-16-2008

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I love the references to gambling. Gambling on high school football... decadence American style at its best.

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spoonman7
06-21-2009

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it's not a reference to gambling it's a reference to the stakes people in small communities put into football. Whether it be by way of overall support, or that of boosters (open up your purses for the boys who reimburse us). Football is a way of life in the these types of towns, and I don't think it really matters what teams the song is even referring to, as they're probably just generic for the purpose of the song. And I think stickie pants is right about the small town dying.

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