Wild International

love this song! you guys see the video?

First one to comment on any One Day as a Lion song!

His flow is siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick! (and meaning is basically self explanatory)

I think it's more like he's expressing his (beautiful, poetic) distaste for international wars fought in the name of religion/religious figures. which seems to be the center of every war in these Godless days. :P

fyi i copied these lyrics directly off the one day as a lion website prior to the EP being released so if the words are are incorrect well, i guess thats why

Y'all need to drop the bias and realize religion doesn't start wars, people in positions of power start wars. Those in various positions of power twist religion to justify their actions, but without it is by their own ambitions that they perpetrate violence and oppression.

[Wikipedia]

When Zack de la Rocha was asked about the song, he said, â€�...that song is a response to the way we saw the U.S. government try to reframe the conflicts of the world. Particularly when the Soviet Union had collapsed, there was no way to subject the country to the kind of fear needed to justify what I consider to be an ill distribution of wealth. After 9/11 you could see that reframing taking place. The specter of Communism no longer haunted the U.S., justifying its actions in Latin America and all over the world. What filled that void were Al Qaeda and the Muslim world in general. That song is, in an abstract way, addressing the way the right has distracted people from this huge rush of wealth from the bottom to the top. Beyond that, I’m speaking toward a deeper sentiment that I feel and I know a lot of people feel. Most of the songs have to do with redemptive moments that come in the face of some real indignity. And that’s the current that I’m trying to tap into, because I think that for a lot of people – for the real participants who live in the shadows and work at car washes and are forced to cross the border and are struggling and facing the real economic consequences – they’re often left out off the debate because of the language they speak or even the terminology that they use. So it stems from my own frustration. It stems from seeing how things have been developing politically, and watching so much dissatisfaction and people very upset about the way the country is going. And watching all of that frustration steered back into a more traditional political process.â€�

When told the song seemed anti-religious, he said,

â€�I don’t see it as an anti-religious song. I see it as the West has been using Christianity as a way to justify its actions when in reality, those figures, Christ and Muhammad, were rebels. These two religious figures have been co-opted to justify power, although they fought against the abuses of power and the expansion of empire. It’s almost like, what would Christ and Muhammad do?"

This song Is just so so so good. I cannot describe in words. Especially the chorus.

I don't know about "self explanatory"... it's more like Zach de la Rocha saying random political stuff.

these days? Every days. Remember the crusades? Religion has been the cause of ALOT of wars.

It sounds like he says "Muhammad and Christ would like To lay your body down"

"Muhammad and Christ would life" doesn't make sense to me, though.

lyric sheet that comes with the CD says "Both Muhammad and Christ word life would lay your body down"

kinda doesn't make sense, unless u say "Muhammad's and Christ's" thought that, it would mean the very religious figures which we fight in the name of would in fact not approve of what we do and actually taught against such behavior, obviously..