And he is making his case by bleeding and bleeding and bleeding out his soul on the issue before the lord until he can sing no more. The whole part about him 'going to Wichita' might be about him taking the battle against the people who have given him grief about his decision to have an abortion by going to Wichita to work on the front line of the war where the fight is real far from the opera that everyone else is participating in by simply debating the topic and not seeing the real violence playing out because of the difference of opinions.Īnd in the end he is bleeding before the lord who the anti-abortionist say is on their side. He actually shot 5 time in 1993 by an anti-abortionist but some how managed to live. Tiller was a target long before he was killed. Even before he was killed though Wichita had been the front line of the anti-abortionist war on abortion clincs and those who perform them. Tiller was killed in May of 2009 by an anti-abortionist who obviously had issue with what he was doing. George Tiller who was the Medical Director of a womens health care clinic in Wichita KS that provided abortion services for women after the 21 week of pregnancy. The reason that comes to mind is I am sitting in a hotel room in Wichita, KS and I am watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC who is doing a piece on Dr. But to add to what you have said maybe 'it' or in your words the 'something he did' is making the decision to have an abortion at some point in his life. They don't even TRY to decipher the lyrics, and make some sense of them. For some reason, it annoys me when people 'love' the song, and have NO IDEA what it's about. Mine might not make too much sense though, because sometimes I have trouble explaining myself. I actually read in an interview with The White Stripes, and they had an explanation similar to that. This is just how I choose to interpet the song. No matter what he does.he can try to forget about his problems, he can run away from his problems.but eventually, he will always have to go back home, and go back and just deal with them. 'and the stains coming from my blood tell me go back home' (I thought it said THINK instead of SING.I still choose to believe that, because I like it better)

Well I'm not EXACTLY sure what this means.I guess it just means that he is going to keep working until he rids himself of his past, and won't think anymore. When it talks about 'working the straw', it could mean that he wants to work and just keep working to try and help him forget about his past, just sort of start a new life.

'Opera' meaning the drama, the problem, the hell. This is again talking about trying to run away from the problem. It could just be again talking about trying to forget about it and not worry about it. If it says 'mind your own', well I guess that could make sense too. Well.if it says 'find a home', then I think that's referring to running nning away from his problems, physically or mentally, just trying to get away from it all. Mind your own? Hmm well I looked up the lyrics on a different sight and it said FIND A HOME not MIND YOUR OWN. 'and the feeling coming from my bones says mind your own ' This line is pretty much talking about how he is angry and wants to take revenge on the person who is most to blame for this, whoever is trying to make his life hell. It could be a rumor or some kind of gossip going around, that people have exaggerated and made into a big thing, when it shouldn't be. Everyone knows about it and they keep reminding him, when all he wants to do is forget about it. This is basically talking about his frustration. He keeps telling himself to leave it alone and forget about it, but he can't because it's just so vivid in his mind.įrom the queen of england to the hounds of hell' He's trying to relax, and make himself forget about it. He wants to try and fight them off, he wants them to leave him alone, but they don't. This line refers to people who keep talking about 'it', something that he did or something that happened. I think that this song is about something lingering in his mind, something that he did and regrets, something that people won't stop talking about, and he just wants to forget it, but people won't let him.Ī seven nation army couldn't hold me back

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