Application for release from the dream lyrics

This song is about manifest destiny, america expanding itself at the cost of the True Americans, Native Americans. Thursday is amazing and speaks the truth. I wish more bands would use there popularity to try and open more peoples eyes. This song puts every word down right about how i feel towrds this country, people dont know whats going on around the world these days, thats why its so screwed up.

It is ugly and sad.

Understanding in a car crash lyrics

You can't escape who you are and this nation is a murderer. To discover that Geoff plagerized these from a poem just kind of lessens the boldness of the statement it makes. Thursday is still amazing and the rest of their lyrics i hope are original. I hope their new-found fame doesnt change the message and ideals that they always stood for.

For the workforce, drowning lyrics

I think drawing from a poem was intended to impart meaning to the song. He seems to acknowledge the theft, saying "Everything you say, you stole," "Write these words back down," and "And history is all the same. Michael Palmer wrote the song in response to the Vietnam War; the song is saying that we're committing the same crimes now as we were then, and the same words apply, so "write these words back down.

Great song. Thursday Autobiography of a Nation. Add Yours.