Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
I can see you in front of me, front of me
Ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
Why don't you get from in front of me?
Oh she's got everyone's eyes
Yeah!
In every home there's a sickening distress
Yeah!
Of roll that film she's a precious, a precious one
But we're all gonna, nah we're already dead!
We're already dead!

And those colorful words for tha Laos frontiers-man
Who passed away with the truth
Amidst the eulogies of bliss
Who will know now what I know about you?
Now that history's a flowery cancerous mess
Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me
A mess!
Overbearing yes ya tryin' ta tire me
A mess!
Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
So get the fuck from in front of me
Nah let's see it broken, bloody and undressed!
We're already dead!

In a violent time (?)

I want to be Jackie Onassis
I want to wear a pair of dark sunglasses
I want to be Jackie O
Oh oh oh oh please don't die!
Yeah ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
I can see you in front of me, front of me
Ya tryin' ta tire me, tire me
Why don't you get from in front of me?
Ruh!
We're already dead!
We're already dead!
We're already dead!



Lyrics submitted by piesupreme

Track duration: 02:58

"Tire Me" as written by Wilk/morello/commerford/de La Rocha

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    General Comment:Oh, and I forgot...

    "Amidst the eulogies of bliss
    Who will know now what I know about you?
    Now that history's a flowery cancerous mess"

    This refers to how at Nixon and JFK's eulogies, no one mentions the bad crap they did (Watergate [nixon], Vietnam war covert operations [both], causing the Cuban Missile Crisis [jfk], voter fraud [JFK, maybe nixon too], etc), everyone only remembered the good.
    Flag coold00don January 15, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:Oh, and I forgot...

    "Amidst the eulogies of bliss
    Who will know now what I know about you?
    Now that history's a flowery cancerous mess"

    This refers to how at Nixon and JFK's eulogies, no one mentions the bad crap they did (Watergate [nixon], Vietnam war covert operations [both], causing the Cuban Missile Crisis [jfk], voter fraud [JFK, maybe nixon too], etc), everyone only remembered the good.
    Flag coold00don January 15, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:This song was written to celebrate Richard Nixon's death, according to Zack.

    However, the lyrics are mostly dealing with the media's infatuation with the Kennedys and how blind everyone was to the crap that he pulled behind the scenes.

    "Oh she's got everyone's eyes" - Jackie was supposedly the "perfect" American. All the media was all over her up until her death (see below). She was actually a gold-digger who really never contributed anything to anything. Born to wealth and married the very wealthy Aristotle Onassis after JFK was assassinated.

    "I want to be Jackie Onassis
    I want to wear a pair of dark sunglasses
    I want to be Jackie O
    Oh oh oh oh please don't die!"
    - This is a tribute to a punk song, I forgot which one, but it fits the song's meanings well. When Jackie O was dying of cancer, everyone was so obsessed with her like she was an important figure. They were blind to the stuff that was really going on.

    "And those colorful words for tha Laos frontiers-man Who passed away with the truth" - This is a reference to the Hmong tribe in Laos. The CIA basically used them to fight the Vietcong covertly, and took poppy seeds with which they sold to pay for the operation.
    Flag coold00don January 15, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:¨Tire me¨ means, to make some one tired, so I see. If anyone else was confused I guess.
    It seems the best meaning for the song is celebrity´s effect on people.
    Like paris hilton turning little girls into whores, people wanted to be like bruce willis, or some WWE wrestler and end up in a shitty office like the rest of us.
    Flag commiebadgeron April 11, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Wow nice link gajaupunk. This song is speaking pure reality. This is war between light and dark, no matter which way you want to view it - it is truth. This song is just trying to let you know, We're already dead.
    Flag JohnRShawon July 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:If you really want to understand the meaning of this song you have to read about the Gemstone Files

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

    then you'll understand, great song, tragic history
    Flag gaiapunkon June 27, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:this song is badass
    Flag songbirdsweetsourjaneon February 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:"We're already dead." Interesting how so far no one has touched this lyric, yet it's so powerful. I think Zack was influenced by the song "You're Already Dead" by the Crass. So it basically means if you are silent, an observer, keeping in line or doing "what you're told," being passive and content as long as you get yours, choosing to sit idly, instead of seeking the truth, speaking out and acting against injustice then you're already dead. Either you don't know that you're already dead or you enjoy the comfort of complacence.

    Flag truthaddicon November 21, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:namelessv1 Is a genius, youve got it all perfect man. keep up the good work
    Flag bubububenon April 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Rage Against the Machine is not by any stretch of the imagination a "liberal" band. Liberalism serves the same interests of the oligarchical ruling elite that the right wing does. It may rationalize its policies of exploitation and avarice somewhat differently from the right wing, but it seeks to protect the same structure of power. Who is to say that Kennedy would have ended the Vietnam War? Who is to that he would have stopped supporting the military junta of South Vietnam that he was supporting before he was assassinated?

    The "sarcasm" is not directed at Kennedy but at the obsessive infatuation over the impending death of a single person, Jackie O, by the media yet a complete "ignorance" of the death, suffering, and misery of thousands upon thousands of the "unpeople" of the world affected by US policy. In this particular case, it is the massive number of Laotians murdered by Nixon (and the ever-present war criminal Kissinger) who was thus treated with high reverence in his eulogies.

    It is essentially expressing the idea that "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic."
    Flag namelessv1on December 05, 2007   Link

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