Would you be upset if I told you we were dying?
And every cure they gave us was a lie?

Oh! They mean it when they say we're dead and doomed
And every single symptom brings us closer to the tomb
And who will take the credit for our swift impending fall
Because it's not my fault.

Would you be impressed if I said that the dead would help us counting
Every single moment that we waste our time?
All the time we're spending vaccinating this disease
I just get dizzy when I think of all the ways we try to hide our maladies
WE wine, WE dine, and everything is fine
Because it's not my fault.

Not you're upset because you finally got the notion
That everything you had is spinning down the drain
Oh! Do you mean it when you beg and pray and plead?
You're "Giveittomegiveittomegiveittomegiveittome, all those things we need"
And what, pray tell, will you whimper when your number will be called?
You'll say "It's not my fault"

Go!
Now!
The others they'll await you!
And every single one among the lot of you will have your turn,
Ai, Ai, Ai, Oh, Oh, OH!
Like moths that fly into the flame it always ends up so...
You scream: "Not me! Take anybody else! -Because it's not my fault!"

I had a dream last night where everyone was trying,
Subconsciously I knew it was a LIE

And when I woke I knew it was time to pray,
To make amends before the end, before my judgment day.
I looked around, I stood alone, I knew what I had to say

I said "It's all my fault!"



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    General Comment:I see it as society's need to find someone to blame for all of out faults.

    "All the time we're spending vaccinating this disease
    I just get dizzy when I think of all the ways we try to hide our maladies"

    Instead of fixing the problem, we spend too much blaming others for out own problems.

    Also,

    You're "Giveittomegiveittomegiveittomegiveittome, all those things we need"

    Perhaps referring to greed?

    Just my thoughts. This is an Amazing song!!
    Flag SkaShermanon June 13, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation:“Would you be upset if I told you we were dying?
    And every cure they gave us was a lie?

    Oh! They mean it when they say we're dead and doomed
    And every single symptom brings us closer to the tomb
    And who will take the credit for our swift impending fall
    Because it's not my fault”

    Our society (the American government) is a disease and any plan to save it or stop it will not work, which will ultimately bring a quick downfall to the country with only the people trying to stop it to blame.
    Flag K66guns0on April 06, 2012   Link
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    Song Meaning:I think this song is about society's general attitude. People see things that are wrong, but refuse to believe that they had any part in contributing. Worldwide things, like Global Warming, and war, and inflation; everybody is responsible. People walk around, however, assuring themselves that they hold no blame, and live their lives without doing anything to help. "We wine, we dine, and everything is fine because it's not my fault." Me? Nah, it's the next guy. This sort of disposition is the real problem with the world, and until people can look up and see that, yeah, it's their fault, nothing can be solved. At the end of the song, he has the sudden epiphany that he's been in denial of all these wrongs, and pleads guilty before it's too late. "I said it's all my fault."
    That's my interpretation.
    Flag skamusic4on June 25, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Here's a possible interpretation.
    When I listen to this song's lyrics, the first thing I imagine are scenes from the Holocaust. This isn't the interpretation I'm sticking with, but it's possible. There's some clues in the text.

    "Would you be upset if I told you we were dying?
    And every cure they gave us was a lie?"

    -may refer to how of course, the prisoners were dying from disease and instead of being given real cures, they were given experimental cures that often made their conditions worse

    "Would you be impressed if I said that the dead would help us counting
    Every single moment that we waste our time?
    All the time we're spending vaccinating this disease
    I just get dizzy when I think of all the ways we try to hide our maladies
    WE wine, WE dine, and everything is fine
    Because it's not my fault."

    -may refer to how the Jews tried to hide any sort of maladies and flaws they had that would otherwise make the Nazis see them as 'unworthy' to live. a common practice at the time.

    "And what, pray tell, will you whimper when your number will be called?
    You'll say "It's not my fault"

    -prisoners were often given numbers and were addressed by their numbers only in death camps. when their "number will be called" could be a reference to being called to be the next exterminated.

    But, then again, this could refer to any sort of Holocaust, not necessarily the one that occurred during World War II, or perhaps death itself, since death is a fate avoidable by no man and your number will be called eventually.
    Flag StrictlyStupidon June 13, 2011   Link
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    My Opinion:would you be impressed if all my life i blamed you then sucked up my pride
    then i took responsibility just b4 i died
    Flag gainsomepainon April 27, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:After reading other comments, watching the video, listening to the song multiple times, and putting some thought into it, I think I'm leaning more towards what SteelKangaroo and Usernamewastaken said.
    I feel this is more of a song about society - how many things are really are fault, even if it's indirectly and we don't tend to realize, or just refuse, to believe it.
    Though, I also feel this can go down to a personal level for certain people, or maybe even certain groups of people. Pointing out how hard they try to stay pure, and away from sin, that they ignore what's happening in the world around them, because, tying back into what I said before, they don't think it's their fault. When really, even if it's indirectly, it is since they do nothing to help prevent it, or fix it.
    "You scream: 'Not me! Take anybody else! -Because it's not my fault!'"
    Flag Mintoon April 03, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:I don't really think this song is proclaiming atheism or anything. I think it's more showing out attitudes toward life and the afterlife. We never really fear it until we're confronted with it. We do whatever we want in life while we don't fear death, but when it's time to 'pray and make amends before the judgement day', we suddenly fear consequences, so we seek blaming other peoples actions for our faults.
    Flag ebonypenon December 20, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:this song strikes me as an against the government type of song. look at when the song was being written and see what was going on in the world at the time. It's talking about how the government pretends to try to help us, but "every cure they give us is a lie". And then there's the line "we wine, we dine", it doesn't say everyone does, it says they do, every single one of them. in short, this song is talking about how the government tries to help, but instead they really sit around and do nothing, but when they do do something, it doesn't help... which is usually true
    Flag thor123abcon May 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:gah! conflict! see i know that a majority of streetlight's songs are about connections between life death and a divergence from a dependence on religion and perhaps these are my rose coloured glasses stepping in but i'm inclined to think that even though the vast majority of their songs are about those things, this one seems different. Yes there is language about judgment day and all that jazz, but i think steelkangaroo was on the right track. i think this is a social thing and you can take any crisis you like and it applies. global food crisis, global financial crisis, sustainability, poverty, slavery, it's as though you can imagine everyone in the world looking at each other awkwardly and trying to pass the blame even though we all know we all are responsible. to me that makes more sense. it's a worldly thing, not a spiritual thing.
    maybe.
    -luce
    Flag Usernamewastakenon August 27, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:well after reading all the lyrics, its sounds to me that this song is about a group of people who gave them selves a illness thats killing them and all of them blamed it on someone else when its really their fault... untill he has a dream where everyone was trying to do something (doesnt really say what, or what the illness is) but any way he wakes up and nothing changed and right before they all die they admit its their own fault....

    thats what i got out of it... now it could mean something completly differnt, or it could mean what i said.. but your supposed to take it as something else... i dont know lyrics are hard to understand sometimes.

    what do you guys think?
    Flag YousAbitch87on August 14, 2009   Link

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