NP nor Pandemic. We can all talk about this new song and why Bob released it now?

ish mailian ishmailian at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 09:36:36 UTC 2020


Right on, Brother.
D is is clearly talking about Them, They that got the killin done.
They that are come to collect a debt owed.
They that have no respect, They that kill with hatred.
They that murder and make kings.
and, as the part you quote here suggests, They is We too.

Paranoid visions of The Jokerman's Dance.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 3:24 AM Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> Thanks.
>
> I hear a big THEY. Mr. Narrator is not talking about US with regard to
> the killing but about THEM, intermittently assuming THEIR perspective.
> The transcript from genius.com could be improved by some quotation marks
> in this respect, I believe:
>
> He said, "Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?"
> "Of course we do, we know who you are!"
> Then they blew off his head while he was still in the car
> Shot down like a dog in broad daylight
> Was a matter of timing and the timing was right
> (")You got unpaid debts, we've come to collect
> We're gonna kill you with hatred, without any respect
> We'll mock you and shock you and we'll put it in your face
> We've already got someone here to take your place(")
> The day they blew out the brains of the king
> Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing
>
> Am 30.03.2020 um 19:44 schrieb ish mailian:
> > As I listen and read D's MMF I hear a Big We


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