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All in all, it's no one's fault,
Excuses turn to carbon walls,
Blame it all on chemical intercourse.
The swallowed seeds of arrogance,
Breeding in the thoughts of ten-
Thousand fools that fight irrelevance.
The full moon is dead skin,
The one down here's wearing thin,
So set up the ten pins,
As the human tide rolls in,
Like a ball that's spinning.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled, to want to live.
Bombs, dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Turn the jukebox up, he said,
Dancing in irreverence,
Play V3, let the song protest.
The plates began to shift,
Perfect lefts come rolling in,
I was alone and far away, hey,
When I heard the band start playing,
On the lip, late take off.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Feel like resonance of distance,
In the blood the iron lies.
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive our hometown,
In our insignificance,
Oh, in our insignificance, oh.
Excuses turn to carbon walls,
Blame it all on chemical intercourse.
The swallowed seeds of arrogance,
Breeding in the thoughts of ten-
Thousand fools that fight irrelevance.
The full moon is dead skin,
The one down here's wearing thin,
So set up the ten pins,
As the human tide rolls in,
Like a ball that's spinning.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled, to want to live.
Bombs, dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Turn the jukebox up, he said,
Dancing in irreverence,
Play V3, let the song protest.
The plates began to shift,
Perfect lefts come rolling in,
I was alone and far away, hey,
When I heard the band start playing,
On the lip, late take off.
Bombs, dropping down,
Overhead, underground,
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive, our hometown,
In our insignificance.
Feel like resonance of distance,
In the blood the iron lies.
It's instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down,
Please forgive our hometown,
In our insignificance,
Oh, in our insignificance, oh.
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I know Eddie said this is about people living in a small town with no larger political influence and being at the mercy of the rest of the world, but I always thought of it another way... not saying Eddie wrote it like that, just that this is what it makes ME think of. Think of a population of small animals... Snakes or birds or even Mice or Rats or something... living in a small isolated area that suddenly becomes the victim of human development. Not in the long run, but the moment that their little patch of forest or lot or field starts being invaded by machinery and power tools... the noise, the destruction, the danger. Think "As the human tide rolls in..." And the chorus is perfect for me for that meaning. Think of being a little Garter Snake living under a wooded board and all of a sudden you hear jackhammers and bulldozers and voices shouting... "Bombs dropping down, overhead, on the ground it's instilled, to wanna live Bombs dropping down, please forgive our small town in our insigificance..." An afterthought, an insignificant detail, forgotten, if even ever noticed. But a death all the same. In both potential meanings, human ignorance and greed is a common theme.