eh idfc

im not up to date on this thread

Aww... *sad*. I thought my analysis of the "Fight..." breakdown lyrics was pretty well thought out...

These lyrics need to be fucking released. I want to know what I'm singing along to. Maybe he'll release them when he stops this cock-rock mid-life crisis bullshit he's been up to in recent years.

i definitely hear: "CUT IT ALL RIGHT IN TWO" and "BENCHED ALONG"

:) i never knew these two were a problem, i hear that pretty clearly and i never wondered if it was anything else, altho, i'm not saying, by any means, that it couldn't be.

"Fight till they die, over earth, over sky
They fight over life, over blood, over ANY LIE
Over love, over sun, over nothing
Fight till they die
Over what? For the/their rising"

it could be "light" instead of "life", but i went for the "life" version. also, i think, it's "the rising", but it could be "their rising" also.

this is what i've heard from day one. i could be wrong of course, this is just my humble opinion, i also didn't check any youtube clips and listened to him carefully, but this is what i get from the album version. i'm pretty sure he says "any lie", too. it's the only thing that makes sense to me and i can't hear anything else either.

also- "...lift an eye to heaven..." is one of the more powerful lines in this song, i would be really really sad :''( if it turned out to be wrong.

it's not, tho.

Ha! Just figured something big and important out...I think:

The last part of the "fight over..." part, he says,

"Fight 'til they die, over words polarizing."

I first heard it listening to a bootleg, but I'm sure it's what he's saying on the album, too. Give it a listen, kids!

That doesn't make much sense

Heh, no it doesn't.

Also, I noticed that some think he's saying "picture love with patience and reason", that doesn't make sense to me either. Pretty sure it's "benched along."

I'm 100% certain these are the words sang by Maynard at OKC 5-19-07

fight till they die over sun, over sky
they fight till they die over the air, over ground
they fight till they die over blood, over nothing
fight till they die over words, over writing

and at Fort Worth 5-16-07 he sings the same thing except instead of "air" it's "sea"

edit: I should probably say I'm also 100% sure that isn't what he sings on the album, here is what I THINK he sings on the album:

fight till they die over the earth, over sky
they fight over lie, over the word, over the air
and moon, over blood, over sun, over blood
they fight till they die over the words, over writing

<shrug>

I just got home from a trip, and after listening to this song for the first time in a while, I now believe he is saying "Cut and divide it all right in two"
Go ahead and rip me, but I never heard it like I do now.
Plus it is one of the lyrics that actually makes sense with the song. I STILL don't think it is "cutting our love" Never have.

Personally, I don't like "cutting our love..." or "cutting my love..." but that's what I hear.

About the other line, I only hear "Fight till they die, over what? For their rising."

I like them, and that's what I've heard since day one as well "cuttin' our love" although possibly "cuttin our law" but you can make out the "V" sound at the end of him saying it. I think cuttin' our love makes perfect sense if you think of it as the love of the angels. They are looking at us saying you took the ability to love that we gave you and now you're cutting it into two instead of sharing love equally to all mankind. You're no better than a bunch of silly undomesticated monkeys.

Oh, I agree...it does make sense. It just sounds kind of odd to me, I guess.

Of course I admit that I could be entirely wrong.

This will never be settled.

is anyone here alive and using their noodle?!?! LOVE and FEAR. Listen to Bill Hicks. LISTEN to Tool. Check out Alex Grey. It's about choosing love not fear. Unconditional love for all living things because we are all connected to one another. Of course cutting my (context read: our) love right in two is a lyric that makes sense. And guaranteed he is saying "words" and "writing." And if this doesn't click in your heads and make you think of the song 10,000 days you need to pull your head out. THINK people. THINK critically about everything in the world around you.

LOL, yeah..what he/she said

No, I believe he is saying "rising"; I will always think this unless I happen to meet him and he tells me otherwise.

How can you guarantee what he is saying?

Well if he's anything like Your_Noose he must obviously have an inside man like Danny's brother or sister giving him the scoop.

I digress

Well, what do you think he's saying at that part, Inner? It's hard to tell, but I've always heard "rising".

I'm not sure about that part to be honest. I'll have to give it a listen when I get home.

I can put on almost any of the 10+ recordings of shows where the song is played and clearly hear maynard say those words, that is how. Rising makes no sense, to boot. Fight over rising? come on dude. I think god put you here to test my faith.

Try again... "words polarizing." I sure hope the real lyrics are posted one day and vindicates one of us (i.e. me).

Not fight over rising, fight FOR their rising. It does make sense. I can also clearly hear "rising" and I don't think god put me here to test your faith (or at all, actually). Your faith should have nothing to do with others or their ideas.

What's even worse is "words polarizing"...that's got to be the worst one yet. The only part I can agree with is the "rizing" at the end of "polar". I don't care about proving anyone wrong, just posting what I think the lyrics are.

I was just joking with the god comment, it's a line from a great comedian.

nice bill hicks line...

Sorry then, I wasn't aware of that.

Anyway, I do agree that he's saying "Over words" but I still hear "For their rising." I listened to it last night after smoking out with headphones and it sounded so much clearer than it normally does.

i've listened to it over and over and it sounds like the chorus is 'cut my love right in two'... no matter how many times i listen to it that's all i come up with... rather than cutting our love or cut it all...

that's pretty much all I hear from the shows as well, it's gotta be it. I think sometimes he improvises live and says "cut it all" but that would be debatable.

I'm not up to date on this thread, but the one part about this song that I think might be different than what's posted here is:

"Cut it, divide it all right in two" instead of "Cutting our love right in two"

But I didn't have time to see if someone had already caught that.

I had hoped that one day this thread would resolve itself....I'm hoping maynard will change it to "they fight 'til they die, over
LYRiCS!"

It doesn't matter when the lyrics come out. They'll only show the simplest most early version of what amounts to be the template of the lyrics to the song.

and once again, it doesn't matter what the original lyrics are, because it's whatever you(the individual) hears that matters... if you hear 'cut it, divide it right in two' or 'cut it our love right in two' or 'cutting our love right in two' or whatever... it doesn't matter universally, only individually... right?

Yes.

you will always read what is written, and you will always hear what you need to hear...

Ha, that's a good one.

there's no reason for you to allude here... just say what you mean...

Because I completely disagree that it's up to whatever you choose to hear, I mean, it's either right or it's not. That's like saying there is no wrong answer when in fact there is only one right answer, granted we have yet to know for sure which that is. But it's still case and point.

I have to agree with Inner.

If he says, "46 and 2 just ahead of me", but I hear, "I like to play with lollipops and candy corn", it's just not right, or relevant.

it is to you if that's what you hear... however bizarre it seems to be to someone else, if that's what makes since to you as what he's saying or what you think he means, than nothing could be farther from the truth... like i said... individuality over universality(is that a word? well you know what i'm trying to say)