Swing

Defying Deception: Zebrahead's Swinging Reflections
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Lyrics

Here I come

Expressing readiness or determination to take action.

Force like a vector, radar detector,

Describing a forceful approach with the metaphor of a vector and the use of a radar detector to detect deception.

Abandon you cause I'm a defector

Choosing to abandon someone due to being a defector, possibly indicating a lack of loyalty.

Loyalty reflective, crooked lie objective,

Highlighting the reflective nature of loyalty and the deceptive quality of a crooked lie.

Never trust you cause you are deceptive

Expressing a lack of trust in someone due to their deceptive nature.

Base burned sample, lyrics are ample,

Referring to the creative process, with burned base samples and ample lyrics, warning against confrontation.

Don't step to me cause you I will trample

Asserting dominance and warning against challenging the speaker, using the metaphor of trampling.

Mainstream averted, tracker inserted,

Rejecting mainstream influences, indicating the insertion of a tracker, and discovering something pure that was corrupted.

Found something pure, but it was perverted

Reflecting on a past opportunity, questioning whether to take action.


If I ever got a chance, should I swing

Contemplating whether to take a chance or risk in a given situation.

Step to the side, swallow your pride,

Advising someone to step aside and swallow their pride, cautioning against ignorance leading to more laws.

Ignorance breeds more laws to abide

Describing an ideal in the mind and the distortion of a claimed possession.

Ideal in your mind, expectation defined,

Comparing a battle to war, emphasizing chaos and the glorification of violence by money and power.

Picture distorted and you claim what is mine

Criticizing needless traditions and asserting a bold approach to opposition.

Battle like war, chaos in store,

(Blank line)

Money and power always glorify gore

Introducing a new topic in the third verse, warning against confronting the speaker.

Needless tradition, chose my position,

Accusing money of dishonesty, turning away from it, and facing consequences (fire).

Sprang like a lion to meet opposition

Describing the fall of shapes on a wall forming a quote, possibly symbolizing the consequences of actions.


Third verse and I'm gonna burst a new topic

(Blank line)

Don't come to front cause you know I'll say stop it

Rejecting false fronts and warning against provocation.

Money you're a liar, printed on a flier

Accusing money of deceit, printed on a flier, and turning away from it despite consequences.

Turned my back on you and you said fire

Describing shapes on the wall falling and forming a quote, possibly emphasizing the impact of actions.

All shapes on the wall fall to form one quote

Referencing a note and hip-hop born on the street, possibly reflecting on the roots of the genre.

Check out the note that I wrote

Mentioning the degeneration of the speaker.

And the hip hop hordes that have always been born on the street

(Blank line)

Degenerate me

Anticipating a chance to take action, repeating the contemplation from line 11.


Here comes my chance should I swing

Reiterating the opportunity to take action.

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