Maybe we believe
She was ready to go
In the morning light
Maybe you believe
That she was made of gold
In the east where you killed her
You lead us
When you need to feed us
You comfortably delete us
When you need your fetus,

You cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Stars look out,

Goodbye, goodbye,

She speaks unrehearsed
Languages from skin
In the morning light
Painting shadows on the
faces of the dead
In front of their windows,



You cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Before its too late,

Do you know that life is ending,
As we go, the dots connecting,
We had our chance to save the garden,
As it dies, our souls will harden,
With these words chastising your conscience
Were breaking through and praying for transcendence.

But you deceived us all now,

You cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Stars look out,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Stars look out.



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Track duration: 04:32

"Feed Us" as written by Serj Tankian

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    Song Meaning:When it says "In the east where you killed her" i think its talking about the garden of eden, because the location of the garden of eden was in the east.
    Flag Carzybaconon October 24, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:has anyone noticed when he says "she speaks unrehearsed languages from skin" that in another one of his songs called soil, he mentions, and i quote " dont you realize, evil lives in the skin?"
    Flagged ianton January 31, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I got the feeling this was about Earth when I first heard it.
    Flag SawyerDaManon May 19, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:can someone tell us what does the EYE mean on the clip ? conspiracy ??masons ?? *
    Flag freethinker92on October 01, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:can someone tell us what the does EYE mean on the clip ? conspiracy ??masons ??
    Flag freethinker92on October 01, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Alright the song Feed Us by Serj Tankian might have many meanings but i think i have found the true meaning to the song. When the song starts out..."Maybe we believe,
    She was ready to go,
    In the morning light,
    Maybe you believe,
    That she was made of gold,
    In the East where you killed her..."
    I think it means that we thought that we, being America thought that George Bush needed to leave as a president and that in the morning when people woke up they saw that he was reelected in 2004 and the East being the eastern stated mostly republican states voted him in and killed the country.
    When the song says
    "You cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
    Stars look out and,
    Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
    Stars look out...."
    It is talking about all the lies that Bush gave us as a country and how he totally ruined America with the war. and the Stars look out is all the dead American soldiers wanting to just eat Bush and they want to be feeded.
    then when it says
    "She speaks unrehearsed,
    Languages from skin,
    In the morning light,
    Painting shadows on the,
    Faces of the dead,
    In front of their windows..."
    It is talking about bush trying to talk to iraqi people and trying to make peace but really they hate him and throw shoes at him.

    Overall the song is about George Bush screwing us over.
    Flag ELECTtheDEAD2012on March 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:first let me say sorry for my bad english coz i know that im gonna make some mistakes hehe

    second, wow!!! you are so right. i never saw it that way, and i know about the armenian genocide!!! i feel stupid.

    but what i really loved is how everyone see it in his own way. for me, being a lebanese living in the middel east, i saw it as he was talking about the people in the middel east who are dying because of usa (and israel). and when he said "maybe we beleive she was ready to go", i though of it as people who dont think as human, who think that people (and specially women who are moms and who are dying, even if they are not fighting) who are dying, are just not human and they dont mind them being dad. i know its doesnt really make sense but that's how it made me feel.
    "maybe you beleive she was made of gold" it means that they think that these women will make them rich, but actually they have nothing to do with everything.

    and they feed us with the lies, as how usa try to convince us and our goverments that they want our best and they want world peace, but actually they surprise us and delete us when they want their fetus, as when they get what they wanted, what they gace birth to (the new middle east, as condy said :P).
    and so on... i know, when you think about it sounds wrong, but that how the song made me feel.

    but now i see that its all about armenia. and btw, as a lebanese, i see many armenians who still until today talk their langages, name armenian names, and they haven forgot about the genocide....
    Flag Rashaon May 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Oh my god, your right... Those fucken bastards. This is bullshit. I was good at history. Why do they hold stuff like this back?

    Guys, we need to start over and redefine the word of each song pertaining to this meaning. Many people brutally murdered, and plenty of idiots out there like myself who has no idea what happened. Personally, I think we owe the least we can pay by at least reading up on it's history.

    I heard Serj put this on the back of his album, and if this is true, it is what we should be looking at.

    ''
    *The Empty Walls* of The


    *Unthinking Majority* hide


    *Money* for the illusive afterlife and do not


    *Feed Us* instead thereby


    *Saving Us* from the conclusive environmental theory that the


    *Sky is Over*.

    *The Baby* is run over by the careless


    *Honking Antelope* who, quoting from the book of


    *Lie Lie Lie*, cries


    *Praise the Lordvand Pass the Ammunition*. The
    ground rumbles and out flies


    *Beethoven's Cunt* screaming


    *Elect the Dead*!
    ''
    Flag MikeDecipheron April 15, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:To further my arguement, goto:
    motherjones.com/arts/qa/2007/11/…
    Flag xtrubeastxcson March 17, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Actually all of you are incorrect. What people fail to realize is that you can only write so many songs about Bush and that this song was a strong call out for the signing of the bill to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
    Being an Armenian-American like serj, i have heard many stories about it from my relatives who's fathers and mothers were survivors.

    1915- Soviet union had control over the country now know as Armenia. Armenians fled to countries such as Lebanon and Turkey to get away from the communism. Turkey didn't want Armenians in their population, so they conducted a brutal genocide of over 1.5 million armenians.

    Maybe we believe,
    She was ready to go,
    In the morning light,
    Maybe you believe,
    That she was made of gold,
    In the East where you killed her...

    -Turkey is east of Armenia
    -Many people were beheaded (made of gold, gold would flow out, basicly just saying that they thought they had justified reasons to kill the armenians)

    You lead us,
    When you need to feed us,
    You comfortable delete us,
    When you need your fetus...
    -Turkish troops led large groups of Armenians into the wilderness telling them they were going to go somewhere. They stranded them while they starved, killing them. The Ottoman Turks even cut open pregnant women and pulled the baby out... hence "When you need your fetus".

    You cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
    Stars look out and,
    Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
    Stars look out....
    -They fed them with the lie of going somewhere, the wilderness has stars looking out.

    She speaks unrehearsed,
    Languages from skin,
    In the morning light,
    Painting shadows on the,
    Faces of the dead,
    In front of their windows...
    -Not sure about this line. But i think faces of the dead might have been the blood shatter, and "she" may have been a witness to the brutality that was done upon her family.

    Do you know that life is ending,
    As we go, the dots connecting,
    We had our chance to save the garden,
    As it dies, our souls will harden,
    With these words chastising your conscience,
    We're breaking through and praying for transcendence...
    -After being dragged for days, starving, Armenians connected the "dots" and realized that they were going to die. Armenia was a christian country so they prayed to their god for "transcendence into heaven upon death"
    -Armenia is one of several thought-to-be possible locations of the Garden of Eden.
    Flag xtrubeastxcson March 17, 2008   Link

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