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I got so much trouble on my mind
That it feels just like I'm always sleeping with the enemy
But I know the real world always gets the last word
And that's why you gotta kick reality.
So don't tease me and try to say I should care.
I might as well go out for mine
Cause everybody's going out for theirs.
So don't tell me about a fake drug war
Go cut education programs more
The people will one day learn and rise
Cause not everyone is out to score.
People always ask me why people are all fucked up
At every corner liquor store.
That it feels just like I'm always sleeping with the enemy
But I know the real world always gets the last word
And that's why you gotta kick reality.
So don't tease me and try to say I should care.
I might as well go out for mine
Cause everybody's going out for theirs.
So don't tell me about a fake drug war
Go cut education programs more
The people will one day learn and rise
Cause not everyone is out to score.
People always ask me why people are all fucked up
At every corner liquor store.
Lyrics submitted by The Big Andowski
Track duration: 01:30
"New Thrash" as written by Bradley James Nowell, Marshall Raymond Goodman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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'Kick reality' like 'kicking dope', he's basically going back to drugs because of the intensity of his reality.
'Not everyones out to score' refers to the idea that people will learn about the truth soon, he considers himself useless because he is scoring heroin but not everybody does drugs like him.
"Running from a gun or some brain that weighs a ton" (in New Song) is from the Public Enemy song "Can't Do Nuttin For Ya Man!" - though that song makes it more obvious where the influence came from. Just found that interesting, anyway. Might not have even been an intentional thing in New Thrash - mighta just been a line Brad worked with and forgot where it came from. I write songs and that happens to me constantly, although when I realize where the line was originally from I tend to trash it. Glad Brad never did that.
Stay away from the peezo, kids.
O_O
I believe, this song is about stress,
metamorphosis of character, and selfishness.
The first six lines describe the pressure
that he thinks the world has placed upon him,
his yearning to escape his chaotic reality,
his realization that he cannot save the world,
and his decision to focus on himself, before anyone else.
Lines seven and eight describe his dissatisfaction
and agitation toward governmental authority for
interrupting and restricting certain aspects
of his every-day-life (adding more to his stress)
by exaggerating the circumstances of particular social situations,
causing minor or mass hysteria in the region, resulting in
citizens requesting greater governmental control over affairs.
Thereby granting the government the additional power
it had originally planned to obtain and in turn the government
could not be held liable for seizing said power forcefully because
it had been relinquish by the citizen majority of their own free will.
He falls deeper into mental decay
while believing the world has betrayed him.
Lines nine and ten indicate his belief that the citizens will,
in time, realize that they have been manipulated due to the fact
that the ruling body holds the belief that they are helping their citizens
and that if they do not regulate the population under their
jurisdiction by restricting certain knowledge,
limiting freedoms, and imposing sanctions on aspects of the
every-day-lives of the nation, that the citizens would
descend into lives of chaos, disorganization, selfishness,
and hedonism, losing all sense of ethical and moral values,
while falling deeper into an unrepairable seperation from
what the ruling body perceives as the civilized world
He believes that the population will rebel after the realization
has been made that the government believes its citizens
to be incompetent, helpless, and incapable without their assistance,
although he refuses to be directly involved due to his recent
decision to place himself at the top of his priorities.
Lines eleven and twelve depict the obliviousness that he believes the
present majority of the population holds about the "human condition",
not realizing that they can never fully understand the world perceived
through another's eyes. He convinces himself that the majority
holds the belief that they are being undermined
based on their own personal perceptions of what is right and wrong,
acceptable and unacceptable, that their constant worry, anxiety,
public and or private, conscious and or subconscious paranoia,
leads them to seek an escape from what their minds consider stressful,
threatening, or confusing, by neglecting to combat the matter(s) and instead
only temporarily push them aside, through the usage of alcohol, drugs,
and an infinite number of other methods that provide the
individual with a sense of escapism.
My impression of the final line of the song, "Peace",
is that the narrator had experienced a break from reality,
even before the beginning of the written piece,
a permanent mental hiccup brought on by his mounting stress and his
paranoid anticipation that more stress was going to be cast upon him.
This whole piece was a paranoid delusion unknowingly and subconsciously
created by the narrator, who unquestionably believes
that all of his actions and experiences, up until his breaking point,
culminated into a point of higher universal understanding and that
the knowledge and truth (bad or good) that was bestowed upon him
would finally put him at peace with the unmanageable stresses
that he was facing in his life. He most likely became agitated,
paranoid, and angered at the fact that the other citizens had not yet
evolved to his level of understanding but accepted that
they would with the passage of time.
The whole piece was just a small glimpse into the narrator's escape fantasy.
-BetweenMadness
its from a jimi hendrix song, i forgot which one, but the song gets all crazy and hendrix says that line almost exactly like brad does in this song.
sublime knew their hendrix.