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Monster hospital, can you please release me?
You hold my hands down, I've been bad.
You hold my arms down, I've been bad.
I've been bad, I've been bad.
I fought the war but the war won
Monster movie, Daddy Warbucks up against Bobby Fuller
And he beat him hands down
Lead in the head
Put a little lead in his head.
I fought the war but the war won't stop for the love of god.
I fought the war but the war won
You hold my hands down, I've been bad.
You hold my arms down, I've been bad.
I've been bad, I've been bad.
I fought the war but the war won
Monster movie, Daddy Warbucks up against Bobby Fuller
And he beat him hands down
Lead in the head
Put a little lead in his head.
I fought the war but the war won't stop for the love of god.
I fought the war but the war won
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Fighting, whether with guns, fists or words, is useless. If you try to fight a war the war will win. There are other ways to say this:
-What you fight you strengthen and what you resist persists.
-If you're changing the world, but you're pissed off, you're doing it wrong.
-Seeing others as the enemy is stupid. Avoid competing and work together instead.
It's hard not to go insane after experiencing something like that and some people can't can't seem to shake it and lose it.
That's why this song makes perfect sense to me.
The girl's mind is torn apart by her love's lack of recognition, and is losing her mind. She's finds that her life is a war, and that no matter how hard she fights this war, life continues to bring her down. Her rebelliousness (personified by Bobby Fuller) is being quelled by societies' conformity, and its stereotypes (Daddy Warbucks), particularily that prostitutes are the lowest and dirtiest people of society.
-Monster Hospital, Can you please release me
he feels that hes stuck in this "monster hospital" in his head that he can't leave.
to me the "I fought the war, I fought the war, I fought the war" part isn't about protester but its about a soldier actually there fighting the war and then the "But the war won" part is saying that even though he was in the was fighting for his country the "war" won because he ends up getting this horrible ptsd in the end.
-"And he beat him hands down
Lead in his head
they put a little lead in, In his head" part seems to be about one of his recurring nightmares, like its another solider being killed by the enemy side
the "I fought the war, I fought the war, I fought the war
But the war won't stop for the love of God" part is like a plea in his head trying to make the recurring stress and nightmares of the war stop.
And sometimes the war wins.
i see it more symbollically.
so you can add it to your own life
if you get me..
"I fought the war but the war won"
like maybe shes just over fighting
and
fighting and fighting and she can never do anything to help.
and then she just gives up because shes over it.
maybe .. maybe...she relates to the dude that "died" in the car
like maybe a part of herself is dying.
or a relationship has died.
or suicide if you prefer that =S
but i think more symbollically
and i like the remix of the song
I really like the part where they say I fought the war but the war won.
But in the MSTRKRFT remix, It sounds like she's gasping for air, like if she was gonna die or something.:/
But overall, the song is pretty dope.