One Of My Favorite Songs Of All Time

I know that this is a Twilight song, and that tears me apart, because Twilight is mediocre and this song is amazing.  I thought I'd share it because it's awesome.


So, I think that this one guys summed it up really well.

This is surely a lament of lost America, in my opinion. It starts with childhood memories, toys, the County Fair: Leave it to Beaver America. Then the "cops" shut it down, he grows up "cut my long baby hair" and he is searching... "called for you everywhere", with an "American mouth"
The second verse gets into this loss of voice thing that is really cool: the house cat, too fat to do anything about the rats in the yard, his tongue sore from talking. This is a powerful analogy IMO about feeling alienated and voiceless in America, unable to help the broken/flightless/bleeding bird...er...bald eagle? Is it lost or found? too late or are we to save it?"

All around, I love this song and I sometimes put it on repeat.