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I'm walking through your streets
Where all your money's earning
Where all your buildings crying
And clueless neckties working
Revolving fake lawn houses
Housing all your fears
Desensitized by TV
Overbearing advertising
God of consumerism
And all your crooked pictures looking good
Mirrorism, filtering information for the public eye
Designed for profiteering.
Your neighbor, what a guy
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop the bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Modern globalization
Coupled with condemnations
Unnecessary death
Matador corporations
Puppeting your frustrations with the blinded flag
Manufacturing Consent is the name of the game
The bottom line is money, nobody gives a fuck
4000 hungry children
Leave us per hour from starvation
While billions are spent on bombs
Creating death showers.
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop the bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop a bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop a bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Why must we kill our own kind?
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop a bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop the bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Every time you drop the bomb
Where all your money's earning
Where all your buildings crying
And clueless neckties working
Revolving fake lawn houses
Housing all your fears
Desensitized by TV
Overbearing advertising
God of consumerism
And all your crooked pictures looking good
Mirrorism, filtering information for the public eye
Designed for profiteering.
Your neighbor, what a guy
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop the bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Modern globalization
Coupled with condemnations
Unnecessary death
Matador corporations
Puppeting your frustrations with the blinded flag
Manufacturing Consent is the name of the game
The bottom line is money, nobody gives a fuck
4000 hungry children
Leave us per hour from starvation
While billions are spent on bombs
Creating death showers.
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop the bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop a bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop a bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Why must we kill our own kind?
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop a bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Every time you drop the bomb
You kill the god your child has born
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Every time you drop the bomb
Lyrics submitted by Knave Murdok, edited by john5772
Track duration: 02:15
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Anyway, the "every time you drop the bomb, you kill the god your child has born" always confused me - I don't know what that one means specifically. It's not hard to interpret the main point of SOAD's lyrics because most of their songs are either about the Armenian genocide or just anti-war in general. But teasing out specific meanings of individual lines or verses is a lot more difficult.
Why must we kill our own kind?
not,
Why must we kill our own child?
About how pointless man-kind is. the two strongest lines are:
"4000 hungry children Leave us per hour from starvation While billions are spent on bombs
Creating death showers"
but the strongest,
"Why must we kill our own child?"
This is kind of an ignorant comment. This is only true when a Republican is in office, as in post WWI republicans, they are more interested in foreign affairs than homeland affairs. When a Democrat is in office, its the exact opposite, Homeland is more important than Foreign affairs. This is what is fucked up, the priorities of each party, there needs to be a happy medium. USA is fucking awesome, we have way more freedom than the rest of the world.
People always talk about us being ignorant or distracted by the media, but the truth is, if you have a few brain cells, you could avoid this.
I agree our politicians are fucked up, but our country is great.
9/11 happened because Clinton didn't do enough when he was dealing with Osama; however, Bush took advantage of the situation to take care of his daddy's un-finished business. Plus, he gets the added bonus of some oil for his vice presidents former employer.
It was no one person's fault, although everyone likes to try and point the finger at just one person.
Ok, I am done, and by the way, no need to use foul language as much as some of you have, calm down before posting.