Lyrics for Born as Ghosts as interpreted by piesupreme

Born as Ghosts Lyrics
The hills find peace
Locked armed guard posts
Safe from the screams
Of the children born as ghosts
Gates, guns and alarms
Shape the calm of the dawn
Peering down into the basin
Where death lives on
Where young run foaming at the mouth with hate
Where burning batons beat the freezing who shake
Under the toxic sunsets they dine and toast
Their walls deny the terror faced by the children
Born As Ghosts

One book and forty odd
Stuffed in a r
Ah, the school as a tomb
Where home is a wasteland
Taste the razor wire
And thought is locked in the womb
The tales that tear at the myth of the dream
A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen

Born as ghosts

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seansports811
05-26-2002

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This song is about abortion...or atleast in my eyes...

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rage-fan2002
06-17-2002

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to me, this sounds a lot like censorship, "...their walls deny the terror faced...", "A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen..."

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TornadoNHS
07-09-2002

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this song sound a little like cmmon folk who's screams don't matter to people "above them"

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darkpop2Dzombie
07-12-2002

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i think tornado has a point parts like safe from the screams of the children born as ghosts and ther walls deny the terror faced as the children born as ghosts point this out


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srvhendrix
02-11-2005

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for some reason this makes me think of L.A., and how the rich sit up in the "hills with locked arm guard posts", and how the children born into the "toxic" valley are never seen (ghosts) but they continue to struggle "where death lives on"

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SisterFister6905
04-15-2005

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kickass song. love the lyrics. but wen de la rocha finishes a verse theres a voice sayin yeah. or at least think so. can anyone clear that up

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claire16
05-10-2005

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i think this is about being born in capivity, not being able to escape and the childrens rage is built up against the outside world. the atmosphere sounds pretti depressing. it could be a slave plantation, were people are beaten into working and hate the captors or it could be about destroying the future for children 'toxic sunsets' nd all and how all the blame is built up on non existant enimies and the womb could be the crampted conditions or the womb as mentioned above

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zapatista88
06-12-2005

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for me this song represents children who are born in environments where their life is a hell...they have barely any education, they are beaten, and the rich people in this environment really don't give a shit...its like they dont exist, hence the term "ghosts"

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ruairi
08-06-2006

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this song is definatley about the rich/poor divide in LA

The hills find peace
Locked armed guard posts
Safe from the screams
Of the children born as ghosts

refers to the rich in the hollywood hills stuck in their own happy little world, where they dont see the real problems kids in LA have to live with.

Where young run foaming at the mouth with hate
Where burning batons beat the freezing who shake

those kids end up filled with hate towards racist police.

Under the toxic sunsets they dine and toast
Their walls deny the terror faced by the children

LA is well know for having very polluted air.
The Kids growing up in the oppresive atmosphere that comes with vast expanses of cheap housing.

One book and forty odd
Stuffed in a room
Ah, the school as a tomb
Where home is a wasteland

describing the poverty

The tales that tear at the myth of the dream
A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen

LA is more than happy hollywood. the rich and famous are ignorant to the suffering in LA because they are afraid of it

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dontkillwhitey
03-11-2007

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The LA idea is a definite possibility, but I see it as more about the child soldiers in Africa who are trained as bounty hunters or mercenaries

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foreverdrone
07-17-2007

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yeah, child soldiers: that makes a lot of sense..."young run foaming at the mouth with hate"

scary that gated communities in the u.s. are so reminiscent of what sounds more like the third-world environment described in this song, where the divide between rich and poor is much more obvious. i fear this is the direction in which america is headed.

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jakelac95
08-24-2007

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i personally think that this song could be about 2 things. one is that we're born to die. think about it... the ultimate outcome of life is death, so youre basically born to become a ghost. the other thing is that he could fee like hes born, but nobody sees him or hears him. hes just invisible to everyone around him.

"Where home is a wasteland
Taste the razor wire
And thought is locked in the womb"

liek a kid in school thats kind of the outsider and has no friends. these are 2 things i think the song could be about

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mercutioisdead
08-29-2007

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this song is how politicians and leaders make choices in the world without thinking about who or how people will be effected by them, namely children, who will someday lead the world, and the things they do keep us from being able to think freely and feel how we want.

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Virindimaster
04-24-2008

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"you suffer us but can you speak our words?" is missing

whoever think this is about abortions never heard the song I think

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