Awolnation – Knights Of Shame

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[Repeat: x4]
Dance
Baby, dance
Like the world is ending
Dance
Baby, dance
Like the world is ending
Dance
Baby, dance
'Cause the world is ending

[Repeat: x6]
This is who you are

Oh, oh

[Repeat: x2]
Sit back and look for the warnings
The future's bright and alarming
Sit back and look for the warnings

Go
Woo
Huh
Cool

[Repeat: x2]
Uh,
Baby walkin' around with your head cut off
Baby walkin' around with your head cut off

Their power is fear
And it surrounds me
Their signs, you can see
One day we will wake the walking zombies
'Til then we pray
Oo

Everybody
Everybody

The king and his ghost are laughing at me
These signs, you can see
One day we will listen for the sirens
'Til then we pray

Skeletons
Marching army
Guns
Drop your feet
I'm scared
I'm Duke Ellington
My mother said there'd be days like this
But one of the fires lit made her piss
Climbing are zombies
All up inside me
Transformin' vampires
Right beside me
And you can't run
'Cause, you do, you'll be dead
And them walls can't roll from the side of my head
I beat the drool
I beat the ghouls
But his last kiss
All suckers
They will cease to exist
I can't entertain with a beat up human
Lay waste to cities
Leave towns in ruin
I
Am a
Ro-
Bot
Whole arsenal stock
Ready to blow
Lastly you see:
Me, be three by three
Firing these things called TNT

Fire these things called TNT
These things called TNT
They call me TNT
These things called TNT

Uh,
We can dance like the world's over
Yeah, it's almost twenty twelve
Call your girls over
Let's kick back
Pop shots
Have a ball
And if the world blow up
Next life, we do it all over
Uh, yeah, let's toast to the memory
I wrote my name in the sky, so remember me
Baby, forever we
Together mentally
The day I leave me baby over somethin'
Then hell'll freeze
Froze
This world cold, like Natalie
So
Let's lose our clothes like L.E.
Back to the basics
Step out the matrix
Step out your cool
Baby, get on my spaceship
I seen her face lit
She seen a sign like a mace is
So we ran home like a bass hit
Safe
Life is whatever you think it is
Yo, what you think this is?

Uh, yeah it's all in your mind baby
You gotta do what you feel, like a blind lady
You gotta spread your wings and just fly, baby
It feel like you're reborn?
That's my baby
She said she feel it in her soul like a vibrator
I got some things for your thoughts we can try later
Let's hit the dance floor
Right before we out of time
And just party like it's nineteen ninety nine
You know what Prince said
Girl, you my princess
I got the glass slipper
I hope the thing fits
Your body on fire
Let me extinguish
Hop on this white horse
Ride to the sunset

Is anybody really
Out
There
Breathin'
Is anybody really
Sick
Of
Bleedin'
So come and scream into the
Sky
This
Evening
And 'fore the morning I'mma
Touch
Your
Feeling
(Ha)
Let's start today
(Thank you, alright)
Let's start today
(Woo, ah, yeah)
Let's start today
(Ha ha, yeah, wooo, ok)
Let's start today

Start today
Start today
Come on down

The queen's heart
The knights of shame
The people's voice
So we pray and we pray
The queen's heart
The knights of shame
So we pray and we pray
The queen's heart
The people's voice
So we pray and we pray
The queen's heart
The knghts of shame
So we pray, oh

Ooooooo

And yeah, it's no fun living for the fall
And there'll be no more waiting for you all
And there'll be one more chance for the truth
Without you
I would die
And yeah, it's no fun living for the fall
And there'll be no more waiting for you all
And there'll be one more chance for the truth
Without you
I would die

Without you
I would die

Waiting on a heartbeat
Is anybody listening?
We're waiting on a heartbeat
Can anybody hear me?

We're waiting on a heartbeat
Is anybody listening?
We're waiting on a heartbeat
Can anybody hear me?

We rob from the rich to blow down the door
Oh
We rob from the rich and blow down the door
We rob from the rich and blow down the door
Piano
We rob from the rich to blow down the door

It's been a long time, waiting on your call
It's been a long time, waiting for you all
It's been a long time, waiting for you
But I can
Bum bum bum bum bum

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Track duration: 14:58

"Knights of Shame" as written by Aaron R. Bruno, Cameron Duddy, Daryl Jackson

Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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    General Comment:To me this song is for a certain group of people. One that chose to live this life to study through experience the depth of the darkest human emotion available...shame. It is a constant battle, hence, the Knight. But also, we feel like zombies (walking around with my head cut off) becuase Shame creates addiction and the addiction controls us. Then you mask it through drugs or sex or alcohol...party. Then you feel the sadness. Youre up, youre down. But its all in our minds. Its the shame cycle. And its impossible to get out. IS ANYBODY LISTENING!! This is so powerful.
    Flag playfulbirdon March 22, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song! I agree with people that it's about our fucked up world, but that things are better when you're with someone. I think he wrote the song about a girl, the girl he was "dancing" with, but she rejected him or stopped calling him. That's why he included the last part in the end, after the song was already finished. But that's just my imagination! The only thing I don't like about this song is the rap part. Even the lyrics are horrible..
    Flag AnnaBeginson March 13, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:The world is fucked up but it doesn't matter. So long as they have each-other, their dance continues.
    Flag arielpinkon January 22, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:I feel this song is just about pushing through all the things that suck in your life, and no body understanding what you are really going through...but at the same time making the best of it. this is the only 14 minute song that listen to the whole thing.
    Flag meow99on January 10, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:Anyone understand the ending? He throws in a verse from Jump On My Shoulders then it seems to return to the song and talks about 'waiting' again.
    Flagged Grim_Poeton January 03, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:Anyone understand the ending? He throws in a verse from Jump On My Shoulders then it seems to return to the song and talks about 'waiting' again.
    Flagged Grim_Poeton January 03, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:Anyone understand the ending? He throws in a verse from Jump On My Shoulders then it seems to return to the song and talks about 'waiting' again.
    Flagged Grim_Poeton January 03, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:Also, "Life is whatever you think it is, so what you think this is?" really stands out. He's telling you that whether you realize it or not, you are creating your reality.
    Flag greenleafon September 20, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation:I disagree with the suggestion that this is a bunch of random thoughts. I can't fit all the pieces together, but I don't think that is because of his writing, I think it's my own ignorance. When I first heard this song I thought it was about sex. I wasn't listening enough.

    Now I think it is about "waking up" to the things going on in this world. As for the title, when you realize you are part of a nation that has been committing horrible crimes against humanity, you start to feel ashamed of your species. And probably feel shame for the fact there are mindless zombies walking around oblivious to their surroundings.

    I think "walking around with your head cut off" is another way of calling people zombies... because if they aren't using their heads (or brain,) they are basically mindless zombies.

    Then he goes on to say...

    "Uh, yeah it's all in your mind baby
    You gotta do what you feel, like a blind lady
    You gotta spread your wings and just fly, baby
    It feel like you're reborn?
    That's my baby"

    Reinforcing the power of the mind.

    "She said she feel it in her soul like a vibrator
    I got some things for your thoughts we can try later"

    Could be a reference to feeling music, but given the prior lines, I think it goes deeper than that. It seems he is talking about meditation. When you meditate, you can feel energy vibrating throughout your body.

    I am very curious about the TNT reference. It sounds similar to DMT, to me. I think he was being purposefully cryptic, since this substance, naturally occuring in plants and humans, is actually illegal. Look it up. DMT is produced in the brain through meditation and dreaming.

    He also asks "is anybody really out there breathing?"
    Could mean, "are you alive, or the walking dead?"
    Could also be a reference to meditation, where breathing is very important.

    Anyway, I think this song is spiritual in its meaning, in short.
    Flagged greenleafon September 20, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:My girlfriend and I think the riff behind the "this is who you are" part is incredibly familiar but neither of us can place it. Can anyone help us figure out where we think we know the tune from
    Flag steve5006on August 26, 2012   Link
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