System of a Down: Stealing Society Meaning
Stealing Society Lyrics
Yeah, all right
Two skies watching it all fading
Two skies living it all fading
Two skies watching it all fading
Two skies fading, one's abating
Two sons living it all dying
Two sons fighting, one's abiding
Two sons...
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#1 top rated interpretation:This song is pretty easy to explain, the sun is the middle of the universe. And the sky is everything around it. Thus the sun will become a society in my interpretation, and the sky is everything around it, countries, people etc.
Now a more difficult part comes:
"Crack pipes, needles, PCP and fast cars
Kind of mix really well in a dead movie star
If I feel like talking, I never be wrong
If I feel like walking, you best come along"
My interpretation:
"Everything that they say is cool
make you useless in the end
If I'm talking you'd better listen because I'm right
If I'm going to do something, you'd better follow me"
Then this part comes:
"I close my windows
Crank the heat up high
Till my palms are wet
And my tongue is dry"
My interpretation:
"I lock the truth away,
but it's being pressured
untill it gets me nervous
and they've found out the truth and I can not lie about it anymore"
Last part:
"I'm a midnight fistfight
Looking for a mother
That will get me high
Just a stupid motherfucker
If I die, I die"
My interpretation:
"I am a fight till the end that anyone could be able to win
Looking for the earth
to controll and keep for myself
Just a stupid person that fucks up the world
We'll all die in the end, so I want to live a good life." -
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#2 top rated interpretation:Like many system songs, this one is about war. Serj sings of two countries fighting and dying while the leaders are watching it without doing anything about it. Daron sings of the people in those societies at war, causing more destruction by fighting, being reckless and STEALING SOCIETY because they know they are going to die in the end.
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The song represents Caine and Abel.
Two suns, the sons of God fighting, whilst one of them is abiding with God.
As we know, Caine Killed Abel and his sons went on to build the tower of Babel, which could be represented today as the US and it's hedonic excesses, the manifestation of Caine, cheap thrills, addiction and simulating virtue for lack of the real thing as is covered in the second half of the song.
(BTW not religious lol) -
I believe, this part has some relation to religion & how it’s “fading” in today’s generation & questioning of it trying to have control over us I.e
Two skies watching it all, fading
Two skies living it all, fading
Two skies watching it all, fading
Two skies fading, one's abating
It’s obvious that the real “God” is the only great one living in the sky, watching everybody at once (our actions and sins.) Losing faith in those who don’t follow their way. And only one can be right. And how it’s been used too control people.
I think the next part is in relation to the Prodigal Son, Luke 15:11-32.
Two sons, living it all
Dying,
Two sons fighting,
Ones abiding,
-Guitar-
Two sons,
Watching them both,
Fighting,
Two sons,
Seeing them both,
Dying,
Two sons,
Watching them both,
Fighting,
Two sons fighting,
Ones’ abiding.
As the tale goes, there was a father, very wealthy; who held two sons, one was very loyal to his father & never left his side; the other was more impressed by alcohol, partying and prostitutes and had moved away to a foreign country & wasted his share of his fathers’ estate.
As it would be a major famine had hit that country & he had nothing, he had asked someone for work, as granted he got work feeding swine but they never fed him, as he grew jealous of the swine he came to a thought that his father has enough bread too feed his servants and some too spare.
He had returned to his father, upon arrival, his father had his servants dress him in the finest robe, sandals and ring and as you could imagine the other son became insanely jealous because he had stuck by his father the longest and his brother had gotten better treatment and the hurt he felt when he put on a major feast for his brother and saying (not quote) “We will slaughter the fattest swine and rejoice; for your brother was once dead and now truly alive” (Alive because he had seen his way back to his FAITH and his father.) Isn’t it weird how a normal human reaction can be considered a sin?
(My interp x2)
People dedicate their lives to following & believing their God will look after them. Still die of cancer, unfair causes, etc like
Children starving, homelessness.
Living their lives believing and praying too go unheard or noticed. While religion is over a multi-billion dollar industry & fuelling wars.
And the next part.
Crack pipes, needles, PCP and fast cars kinda mix really well with a dead movie star,
When I feel like talking, I could never be wrong,
If I feel like walking, you best come along,
I close my windows, crank the heat up high
Till my palms are wet and my tongue is dry
I'm looking for a mother that will get me high
Just a stupid motherfucker, if I die, I die
I'm a
Midnight fistfight
Looking for a mother that will get me high
Just a stupid motherfucker if I die, I die
I feel that what they’re saying here & in relevance to what I said before, with religion becoming less and less, this is how the movie & music industry trying to brainwash us with how “we we should be”
I.e
Glorification of drugs & partying from Hollywood movie stars, music artists & endorsing this and falling into a trap of addiction and unhappiness winding up, you guessed it, dead, and how common this sort of story is. & it’s considered an honourable way out in a fucked up way. I.e
When I feel like talking, I could never be wrong,
If I feel like walking, you best come along.
How people hang on every word that they say, study everything they do to be like said person, being a bad arse, doing drugs and fighting is cool, endorsing that it’s “cool to not give a fuck about yourself.”
P.s am not religious -Jack, 21 Aus
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I think it's a song about James Deans life.
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i feel like this song is a direct sequel to thetawaves, how the government/society think they are always right, tell us what to do, and when the people find out that the government is pure scum, they have no where to hide
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This song is simply about the sun and the moon. The rising sun that kills the moon. Then sun sets and the moon comes out. The cycle continues. The war between light and darkness.
The end -
To me it sounds almost like the two suns, are, well, two sons, off fighting a war. The skies, on the other hand, are their parents, maybe? One sun loses hope in the cause and simply abides his commanders, the other stays faithful, but dies. After this the one parent 'abides', while the other still has hope.
After the into my guess would be that one parent[the abiding one?] gives up and turns to drugs to handle the pain of a lost son. Thus the whole "two suns, two skies, two separate wars' line at the end.
I could be totally off base with this, but as an ex-heroin addict, I'm familiar with chemically excaping personal emotional pain and to me this song just fits [if some of my other assumptions were correct that is- if not, my theory's shot].
Anyone care to give their thoughts on this? Please e-mail me if you disagree- I would love to hear an alternative opinion.
Love, Peace, and AnArchy to all you wonderful fans of SOAD!
-Rick -
This song is about the evolution of our solar system. The band is from the LA/Hollywood area, so no surprise the chaotic and violent death of a movie star made it in. As above so below, the earth will follow the same chaotic and violent evolution as the universe, and we will follow that same pattern too as individuals, in our personal lives.
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I think it's safe to say that none of you understand anything near what the fuck is going on, or you would see a whole 'nother world of meaning to this, my favorite system song hands down, and I am the system fan. our solar system is a binary star system and the other sun is on its way to pass between (if we're so fortunate) earth and mars in about 4 years ( its taken 23000 years to complete its orbit around our sun which is NOT the center of the universe dumbass much less the milky way) hence the two suns part and they're watching our entire existence fighting,dying... the crack pipes needles pcp part is (like in "hypnotize" waiting for my girl part...) we're all doing our own stupid shit like trying to convey this to your average joe...i suggest researching the mayan calander closer than you already have now look deeper ...keep going / far down the rabbit hole as you care to go. go to you tube while you still can and type planet x in the search box and crack your cranium and open it wide open and prepare yourself forthe evidence which will soon realize somewhere along the line you started eating lies like ms. pac man from all sides.....or as system said it best FREETHINKERS ARE DANGEROUS. hope I just saved your souls maufaukas. help your neighbor they are you.... and check out IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE he can tell you just as well as I can and its actually entertaining.
peace my people, my people with the same oppressors behind the curtain.....the myth is that the myth is only a myth. that's why your all caught in a reality tv and blindly following the mandated cable change and lethargic about the weather and gas/food situations. I love you all sorry if I sounded negative, but if you ain't outraged you ain't payin attn! -
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Its about hollywood.
"two skies watching it all fading two skies living it all fading" two stars inhollywood competing against each other and fading morally
two suns watching them both fighting two suns seeing them both dying- suns and skies being the two different worlds, the two different stars' followers/believers watchng them battle and die internally/the defamation of character
"when I feel like talking ill never be wrong if I feel like walking you best come along"- convincing followers to be with them "I never lie, I'm never wrong. Walk with me and be just like me. Worship me."
"midnight fistfight"- sneaky with their ways to win thier little celebrity battles.
"lookin for a mother thatll make me high just a stupid mother fucker if I die I die"- would be willing to die if it means they'd be famously remembered/ making a name for themselves.
"close my windows crank the heat up high til my palms are wet and my tongue is dry"- close their "victim" in, crank the heat up high (in their battle), til they've killed their victim and there's nothing else to do/say.
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