I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Betty's got the back of her dress all ripped out
Mama's got her face muffled
Twist and Shout
Your a liar
Liar liar you got your pants on fire
You profit from the lie
You prophet from the lie
You profit from the rape lie baby
Eat Meat
Hate Blacks
Beat your fuckin wife
It's all the same thing
Deny, you live your life in denial
Stand my whole life on trial baby
Deny Deny deny deny
All we are saying is give peace a chance ha ha ha
Mama's got her face muffled
Twist and Shout
Your a liar
Liar liar you got your pants on fire
You profit from the lie
You prophet from the lie
You profit from the rape lie baby
Eat Meat
Hate Blacks
Beat your fuckin wife
It's all the same thing
Deny, you live your life in denial
Stand my whole life on trial baby
Deny Deny deny deny
All we are saying is give peace a chance ha ha ha
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in the beginning it goes little miss mac mac mac with silver buttons on her back back back then there's soemthing else.. i can't remember.. but it ends up and it never came back back back till the forth of july lie LIAR!!!!! can't remember the whole rhyme... it's one of those clapping rhymes
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this isn't the one they say that on.
this song kicks ass, did anyone notice that in the end there is a John Lennon thing going on "All we are saying is give peace a chance"
Crossmyheart,demirep is the song that starts with ms mary mac. :)
i love the part where she says "eat meat, hate blacks beat your fuckin wife! its all connected!" saying its all based off of hate (obviously).
but i really love the last part. the give peace a chance part where someone is screaming in the background. i think its against people who aren't radical enough to act ontheir beliefs. while these people are saying "give peace a chance" they aren't directly helping anyone and they are ignoring the fact that things aren't progressing.
I think it's saying how a lot of societal evils really stem from the same thing.
I don't think it's attacking people who "aren't radical enough," I think the give peace a chance part is pointing out that its okay to give peace a chance if you're not being victimized, because the victimizers aren't giving peace a chance.
Crossmyheart13 -no that's for demirep not this song is a lot of things in one about a girl being molested and or raped by her father and or brother and the mother know and does not do anything about and acts like she doesn't know shes a- liar, about all those Christians and peace people who eat meat- liars, all those people who are say rascimt is bad but yet the eat meat - liars/hypocrites same thing with beating people up
I agree with the posters above who (from different angles) point out the impotency of "give peace a chance" (hence the screaming). I think it's also significant that it's a John Lennon song. Don't get me wrong, I love Lennon, but before he became Mr Peace and Love he was a wife-beating, friend-manslaughtering, philandering asshole -- the kind of person who "profits from the lie". The only reason I can separate the art from the artist in his case is that I believe his conversion was sincere.