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What's troubling Gus you sound demented
Is it because someone talked and she told me
He no longer thinks anything that moves and
Everything he sees is something to kill and eat?
What's troubling Gus is it nothing goes quiet?
The whip-poor-will at dusk....
What's troubling Gus overhearing conversations
That it's because you're too either them or me
When it's either them or it's us anything that moves and
Everything you see is something to kill and eat
What's troubling Gus? Is it nothing goes quiet?
Is that what's troubling ya Gus the mere mention of the name
Used to be enough to make every bird stop singing?
Is that what's troubling ya Gus? No one is afraid enough?
What's troubling Gus is it nothing goes quiet?
Is that what's troubling ya Gus? The mere attention of the name
Used to be enough to make every bird stop singing
The whip-poor-will at dusk tells you no one is afraid
No one is afraid enough
Is it afraid
Or is it afraid enough
It's troubling Gus
Is it because someone talked and she told me
He no longer thinks anything that moves and
Everything he sees is something to kill and eat?
What's troubling Gus is it nothing goes quiet?
The whip-poor-will at dusk....
What's troubling Gus overhearing conversations
That it's because you're too either them or me
When it's either them or it's us anything that moves and
Everything you see is something to kill and eat
What's troubling Gus? Is it nothing goes quiet?
Is that what's troubling ya Gus the mere mention of the name
Used to be enough to make every bird stop singing?
Is that what's troubling ya Gus? No one is afraid enough?
What's troubling Gus is it nothing goes quiet?
Is that what's troubling ya Gus? The mere attention of the name
Used to be enough to make every bird stop singing
The whip-poor-will at dusk tells you no one is afraid
No one is afraid enough
Is it afraid
Or is it afraid enough
It's troubling Gus
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I have not lost all hope in the U.S. And although I would rather live in Canadia (lol) than in the United States, It is better to at least better to try and fix the system first.
i cant wait untill grad school to get the hell out of this place!
Gord Downie, at one concert in Ottawa, said before they played "this is Gus, the metaphor from central park." Its an obvious metaphor for the decline of the United States as the worlds only superpower.
"something to kill and eat" - invade, stabilize, govern to utilize resources, and eventually take it over.
"is it because someone talked and she told me" goes with "what's troubling Gus overhearing conversations" - paranoia and conspiracy theories.
"that it's because you're too either them or me/
when it's either them or it's us" - the great unnamed "them" that must be feared, fought and conquered. plus, being only for oneself, having a country that thinks that they're under attack so they have to go out and save themselves before the darkside comes along.
"is that what's troubling ya Gus the mere mention of the name/used to be enough to make every bird stop singing?/is that what's troubling ya Gus? no one is afraid enough?" - we used to be so powerful, and we're not going to lose it to anyone. let's get out there and reassert our might, show the world who's boss.
"The mere attention of the name/used to be enough to make every bird stop singing" - we used to be able to quiet those rogue nations just by threatening to get the USA involved, but that's nearly forgotten now since "the whip-poor-will at dusk tells you no one is afraid".
great music, so Hip. got my mom hooked...
Downie wrote the song, inspired by the newspaper article as a reflection of our own fishbowl lives: "I know for a fact that polar bears, as a rule, and not even as a rule, unequivocally, want to kill anything that moves and eat it," he says. "So there's no sort of, I don't think there's any really taming them, really. And I think it's one of those things where, yeah, if you're up there in the tundra and you're moving around, the only reason it's not going to kill and eat you is because it's already full. There's something about that that's kind of compelling to me.
"And we needn't look much further than our own lives, I guess. I guess you can expand upon those feelings and thoughts as much as you like when you see that. Which I guess is also about what we pay money to see or do."