Operation Ivy – The Crowd

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Wrenched into the world, deanaesthetized
Blurry images fit their way through halfway opened eyes
Awakened by alarm fifteen minutes of hygiene
Twenty minutes of eating thirty seconds to the door

I looked outside I looked into the eyes
Of the impersonal mob I've seen a thousand times before
Feeling under covers like books on a shelf
If we're scared of one another
Must be scared of our self

More than just another crowd
We need a gathering instead

Drink drink in the bad land liquid bread for the poor
Another member of the crowd goes down
To drown at the liquor store
Choose your escape in the heartland
Of product and demand when you feel like a wasp in the swarm
You gotta get away anyway that you can

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Track duration: 02:11

"The Crowd" as written by John Aaron Lewis

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    General Comment:the crowd is prolly one of my favs from them. gets the message out. you gotta UNITE to make a change, dont get numb like evryone else!!

    Op Ivy is my fav band of all time. not only did they have great music but they had some good messages. the only band to perfect that raw, energetic sound.
    Flag Ravenrocker2287on May 22, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Operation Ivy was always about Unity, and that's what this song is about; how we lack unity. OpIvy was my favourite band for such a long time and this song was the greatest for me during that era. Still love Jesse's voice and Common Rider rocks as well.
    Flag salvoon March 16, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Operation Ivy are fucking amazing. This is my fav Op Ivy song. Hobart has a really good interpretation of the crowd. Op Ivy is suggesting tha tpeople need to come together and solve all these bullshit problems of the world.
    Flag River Wolfon March 01, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:this is song is great. its about more than high school, it's about finally realizing how much the real world sucks, how its all corrupt and meaningless. Its how living a normal life wears you down until you becoma a subhuman conformist machine, and how so many people try to use alchohol as a way to escape, but it actually pulls them in.
    Flag hobarton June 12, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:ok the first 4 lines of the song are definitly about gettings up early in the day and getting ready and leaving your house, and the last 4 lines are about escaping from reality by drinking... but what makes you say it's about high school i dunno, he doesnt really say anything about going anywhere, he just says going outside he sees the crowd so maybe the crowds outside his house say hes in the city then it would be people going to work? i dunno just an idea
    Flag dancingbearson September 03, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:op ivy is a very good ska punk band best ay that
    Flag badreligionpigeonon August 10, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:UGHHHHHH.....
    I LOVE THIS SONG. IT WAS THE FIRST OP IVY SONG I'VE EVER HEARD, I'M ADDICTED TO IT, I'M FUCKING ADDICTED TO ALL OF THESE SONGS.
    Flag PEDOPHILE_PUNKERon July 02, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:This is obviously a song about high school. the whole part of hygeine, eating, and getting out the door is about before. then when you get into the mass you see everyone. i feel it's about a kids struggle to fit in. he is pressured into drinking and sees everyone doing it. very good song.
    Flag Chipper1048on June 03, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:This is Operation Ivy's best song in my opinion.
    Flag Pins 4Skinson May 04, 2002   Link

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