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Dedication is the price you pay: the initiated are
Coddled and caged
Before you walk, as soon as you crawl
Hope is pointless 'cuz you're stuck in the trawl

Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments
They just betray impoverished accomplishments
The puppet masters fear originality
They tighten up the tethers and they shackle your feet
Submission complete!

Young recruits never have a chance, enticed to
The drill, admonished to dance
Early to rise and early to shine, life is long but the end is nigh

Break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how rejuvenation conquers all fears
Lowly opportunists take commanding roles
And hawk ultimatums so their weakness won't show

The sad reflection of dead ambition
You live for nothing
Submission complete!

Yeah, break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how the taste of failure makes it all clear
The lowly opportunists take commanding roles
And hawk ultimatums so their weakness won't show

The sad reflection of dead ambition
You live for nothing

Expectation, indoctrination
Life's a damnation
Submission complete!

Dying on your feet
Submission complete
A total defeat

A shackle used to teach a horse to amble; Something that restricts activity, expression, or progress; A restraint

Fril Guest Location: Global Citizen	Quote Welcome to corporate reality. 11/23/2011 at 14:36 Welcome to corporate reality.
badrelgnsf The Same Person lost in ramble nation Location: Sacramento CA Status: Offline Posts: 2097	Quote I feel that this song is indeed using military overtones but the undertone is applied to life in general and how we organize ourselves in it, and what we do with it. USA wants our people to be void of individuality and thought and creativity or mindsets that are anything but some fixed paradigm of a weak bloated bastard who was just the product of yet another "markovian process" of yesteryear as he puts it. 08/27/2009 at 18:05 I feel that this song is indeed using military overtones but the undertone is applied to life in general and how we organize ourselves in it, and what we do with it. USA wants our people to be void of individuality and thought and creativity or mindsets that are anything but some fixed paradigm of a weak bloated bastard who was just the product of yet another "markovian process" of yesteryear as he puts it.
whitelights9 Incomplete Location: Laguna Beach Status: Offline Posts: 0	Quote George Orwell said " It is possible to dehumanize all society, and for life to go on.." My own interpretation of this relates to; put in your best effort in the given structural limitations your confined in and when submission is complete you either make the grade or your not good enough. But actually, It seems that may apply to college structural mandates to form the nations; we all know that's a circus of professorial senility. But from the lyrics it seems to be most likely about military recruits. The predominant core of them, uneducated, joined to put some kind of substantial purpose in their lives, because they cant see past it and feel the urgency to do something of the sort. They don't have the wisdom yet to understand that it's merely a "trawl" of irrational indoctrination. 08/27/2009 at 17:57 George Orwell said " It is possible to dehumanize all society, and for life to go on.." My own interpretation of this relates to; put in your best effort in the given structural limitations your confined in and when submission is complete you either make the grade or your not good enough. But actually, It seems that may apply to college structural mandates to form the nations; we all know that's a circus of professorial senility. But from the lyrics it seems to be most likely about military recruits. The predominant core of them, uneducated, joined to put some kind of substantial purpose in their lives, because they cant see past it and feel the urgency to do something of the sort. They don't have the wisdom yet to understand that it's merely a "trawl" of irrational indoctrination.
nropevolI Infected pr0n Jeremy Status: Offline Posts: 1635	Quote My interpretation of this song is that it's about the American soldiers fighting in an Arabic country to free people. I think a lot of the lyrics fits perfectly on Islamic wives. The guitar solo and chords in the verses have an eastern sound as well. At the same time it's about the Americans that aren't free themselves. They all have a boss to answer to. 03/02/2009 at 04:52 My interpretation of this song is that it's about the American soldiers fighting in an Arabic country to free people. I think a lot of the lyrics fits perfectly on Islamic wives. The guitar solo and chords in the verses have an eastern sound as well. At the same time it's about the Americans that aren't free themselves. They all have a boss to answer to.
road dog Incomplete Location: nm, usa Status: Offline Posts: 0	Quote i find this song to be about what it is to be learned and the limitations people with power (educators) can impose when they dont relate with their pupils. It's about losing your individuality....or it's about how the hunger and motivation to achieve finally subsides as a result of making sure you've jumped through all the correct hoops. The submission is genuinely completed as you conformed to make the grade and in the end, once you've earned it, you no longer remember how to be 'yourself.' The guilt may or may not be self imposed but it's my feeling that the derives from what the viewpoint of the people running the show (educators) would perceive and would go out of their way to guilt you about, or make an example for the rest of the 'young recruits.' 02/07/2009 at 17:14 i find this song to be about what it is to be learned and the limitations people with power (educators) can impose when they dont relate with their pupils. It's about losing your individuality....or it's about how the hunger and motivation to achieve finally subsides as a result of making sure you've jumped through all the correct hoops. The submission is genuinely completed as you conformed to make the grade and in the end, once you've earned it, you no longer remember how to be 'yourself.' The guilt may or may not be self imposed but it's my feeling that the derives from what the viewpoint of the people running the show (educators) would perceive and would go out of their way to guilt you about, or make an example for the rest of the 'young recruits.'
Unknown Guest Location: Global Citizen	Quote I assume this song is very similar to "All Good Soldiers" in meaning. That the military (and, in this case, specifically the US military) grabs hold of the less fortunate and poorly educated and sends them off to die on a basis of false hopes and flat-out lies, only leaving them broken and dehumanized upon return to society. 02/06/2008 at 21:55 I assume this song is very similar to "All Good Soldiers" in meaning. That the military (and, in this case, specifically the US military) grabs hold of the less fortunate and poorly educated and sends them off to die on a basis of false hopes and flat-out lies, only leaving them broken and dehumanized upon return to society.