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The end's not near
It's here
Hallelujah
Spread the cheer
And watch the millenarians
Throw a party for a thousand years
You won't see the pious praying
They'll be too busy flaying
All the martyrs with better ways
To stop the world decaying
If you call me I won't be home
I'll be hiding from the kingdom come
They can't see everything on earth
With the satellites and the roving drones
With the satellites and the roving drones
This is why hell is underground
Like a reclaimed bad part of town
We don't want to lose our souls
We're the saints who don't want to be found
The saints who don't want to be found
The saints who don't want to be found
The saints who don't want to be found
It's here
Hallelujah
Spread the cheer
And watch the millenarians
Throw a party for a thousand years
You won't see the pious praying
They'll be too busy flaying
All the martyrs with better ways
To stop the world decaying
If you call me I won't be home
I'll be hiding from the kingdom come
They can't see everything on earth
With the satellites and the roving drones
With the satellites and the roving drones
This is why hell is underground
Like a reclaimed bad part of town
We don't want to lose our souls
We're the saints who don't want to be found
The saints who don't want to be found
The saints who don't want to be found
The saints who don't want to be found
Lyrics submitted by HappyChillmore
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and I'm too lazy to decode the rest.
Definently fits into the song.
It's pretty much talking about the hipocrisy of the so-called "pious" people, when in reality their actions are only done for reward (you won't see the pious praying - when the world ends). The end of the world is referring to the rapture I believe. Similarly, martyrs think that their actions are going to bring better ways, when in reality they are destructive.
Then it goes into how the people who actually do good, the real saints don't want the rapture to come (the saints who don't want to be found).
Not 100% sure about the last stanza but i'd interpret it two different ways:
1) Although their actions are good, because they aren't the so-called "pious" people they will go to hell and thus they don't want to be found and lose their souls
or
2) The entire idea of the rapture and heaven seems to be something that removes your soul (your identity, freedom etc.) and thus they don't want to be found.
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He knows he's right in his view of the world, but those who control it and monitor it (satellites) disagree. It's all about hiding from the majority, and moves a bit into self-righteousness, not that it ruins the song in the slightest. Being a subculture of one and prophet to yourself never goes out of style, does it? Especially when others can relate to it.
I see this as being about how he thinks the "world's decaying" - well, has already decayed actually! The end of life (as he thinks it ought to be) is already here. Everyone had all this hope and optimism about the new millennium and saw it as a new start, when the world would be great, but he can't see that there's anything out there worth caring about. He thinks everyone's "lost their souls" - perhaps he blames it on technology ("the satellites" etc. being a distraction and no one thinks about other people or communicates) or maybe it's just the lifestyle in general - he seems scornful "watch them throw a party like there's something worth celebrating."
Does he see himself as a martyr? Maybe he thinks he could have the ways to "stop the world decaying" but no one would listen to him, not even those who pretend to be pious and good. He feels like he's one of the only people who can see what's wrong with the world - everyone else parties. Anyway, for him, the end is here. There's nothing he can do as an individual to change things so he's just going to be hiding.
That's just my opinion, feel free to tear it to shreads!
The other guys just seem like they're afraid to sing loud and evoke any sort of emotion, because the lead singer can't hit notes or something. I don't know. I haven't heard any of their other stuff, and I don't really want to.. unless Band of Horses remakes another one.