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You are my army and I would command
"Attack the Holy Land"
And you are that interstate
That I would roll my tanks down
So color me stunned
And wake the children when done
And put the details in a jar
And bury them underwater
I went to see these battlegrounds
With battle sounds
And drove to the outskirts
With cars on blocks
And houses run down
So color me stunned
And wake the children when done
And put the details in a jar
And bury them underwater
We'll gather up the family and
Display our diseased organs
We'll call it pride
We'll celebrate tonight
Tax free and always underpriced
So color me stunned
And wake the children when done
And put the details in a jar
And bury them underwater
"Attack the Holy Land"
And you are that interstate
That I would roll my tanks down
So color me stunned
And wake the children when done
And put the details in a jar
And bury them underwater
I went to see these battlegrounds
With battle sounds
And drove to the outskirts
With cars on blocks
And houses run down
So color me stunned
And wake the children when done
And put the details in a jar
And bury them underwater
We'll gather up the family and
Display our diseased organs
We'll call it pride
We'll celebrate tonight
Tax free and always underpriced
So color me stunned
And wake the children when done
And put the details in a jar
And bury them underwater
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery
Track duration: 03:07
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You are my army and I would command
"Attack the Holy Land"
-Obvious enough, what the "The Holy Land" is.
And you are that interstate
That I would roll my tanks down
-Haha, again pretty obvious
So color me stunned
And wake the children when done
And put the details in a jar
And bury them underwater
-Orgasm and condom reference
We'll gather up the family and
Display our diseased organs
We'll call it pride
We'll celebrate tonight
Tax free and always underpriced
-Tax free = No Children
Underpriced = Cheap
just a fun interpretation
I believe the first stanza is just pointing out some of the hypocrisy and un-moral reasoning of war.
I think "So color me stunned" is saying how we acted shocked or how we act like we didn’t think that these things could be going on
The "I went to see these battlegrounds" stanza, suggests, people seem to be in denial about certain issues, so they go to see this "battleground" or place in hardship and realize that it is in hardship
The "We'll gather up the family and
Display our diseased organs" stanza, sort of more obviously points out the flaws in our economy and in people in general. How we take things for granite and yet we still judge others. For example, our good life that we don’t appreciate by putting our organs through hell and we call it pride and celebrate.
That's just how it seems to me.
What is the modern holy land?
Here's what I think the song means: This is clearly an anti-war song. Specifically, he's talking about the Iraq war.
Most of it can be decoded easily, but the part about diseased organs and pride is a bit tougher. He's discussing the benefits we derive from dirty wars... "we'll call it pride, and celebrate tonight, tax-free and always underpriced"... the benefits of imperialism. We "wake the children when done" because know it's a shameful thing... and of course, lying, suppressing information, and telling ourselves what we want to hear is what "put the details in a jar and bury them underwater" is about.
"you were my army and i would command" another great sonf of the genius Ben Gibbard Great DCFC