Group 4 is still around. It's called G4S now (Group 4 Securicor). G4S doesn't just do your everyday security guard stuff. They have warzone force protection contracts (like Blackwater/Xe, Dyncorp, etc.). I'm heading out to Kosovo with them soon, then hopefully Afghanistan at some point.
I like this song both for the music, and that it strikes a chord with me. I feel like it's talking about being a little bored with the monotony of your current security assignment, but still feeling the call of adventure and action around the world pushing you to roam. Not being able to escape it because it's all you think about anymore (even during sex, when he says "To think that I lay next to you / Wasting time when I could do / A simple job in strip lights"). Strikes home to me since I chose to be with a girlfriend instead of taking a nice assignment, and she ended up cheating on me later. So it was just wasting time.
I've heard this song's supposed to be critical of G4S, but I don't hear it that way and I love it; the lines "I train myself in martial arts / As advertised / I reinforce my softened parts / As advertised" give me a laugh every time. And I interpreted the "free to roam... and magazines" to be magazines of firearms, as if your ammo is your "passport". A great song with a James Bond movie intro sound to it.
Group 4 is still around. It's called G4S now (Group 4 Securicor). G4S doesn't just do your everyday security guard stuff. They have warzone force protection contracts (like Blackwater/Xe, Dyncorp, etc.). I'm heading out to Kosovo with them soon, then hopefully Afghanistan at some point.
I like this song both for the music, and that it strikes a chord with me. I feel like it's talking about being a little bored with the monotony of your current security assignment, but still feeling the call of adventure and action around the world pushing you to roam. Not being able to escape it because it's all you think about anymore (even during sex, when he says "To think that I lay next to you / Wasting time when I could do / A simple job in strip lights"). Strikes home to me since I chose to be with a girlfriend instead of taking a nice assignment, and she ended up cheating on me later. So it was just wasting time.
I've heard this song's supposed to be critical of G4S, but I don't hear it that way and I love it; the lines "I train myself in martial arts / As advertised / I reinforce my softened parts / As advertised" give me a laugh every time. And I interpreted the "free to roam... and magazines" to be magazines of firearms, as if your ammo is your "passport". A great song with a James Bond movie intro sound to it.