I never heard about Shinedown until recently, but this song is a masterpiece.
In an interview, Brent himself told ‘Devour‘ is a political song. he said they performed for the troops in Iraq. He talked to one guy who told him he hasn’t ever seen his baby cuz he’s been in Iraq and that pissed him off and he went home and wrote this song. In my eyes, it’s a direct “Fuck You” to the president. “Suffocate your own empire.” “It’s your final hour.” pretty much speaks for itself.
Shinedown - Devour Lyrics
Take it and take it and take it and take it and take it all
Take it and take it and take it until you take us all
Smash it and crash it and thrash it and trash it
You’re only toys
Try it you’ll like it don’t hide it don’t fight it, just let it out
Steal and shoot it and kill it or take another route
Take it and take it and take it
You know they’re only toys
Devour Devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour Devour
It’s your final hour
Devour Devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour Devour
What a way to go
You want it you want it you want it
Well here it is
Everything everything everything
Isn’t so primitive
Take it and take it and take it and take it and take it all
Nobody nobody wants to feel like this
Nobody nobody wants to live like this
Nobody nobody wants a war like this
Devour Devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour Devour
It’s your final hour
Devour Devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour Devour
What a way to go
What a way to go
Diving down
Round and round
diving down
round and round
Devour Devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour Devour
It’s your final hour
Devour Devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour Devour
What a way to go
Devour Devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour Devour
It’s your final hour
Devour Devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour Devour
What a way to go
What a way to go
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
Not cool.
July 5th, 2008 at 4:45 am
You know what?, maybe Brent Smith can go to Iraq and talk to the people over there that have had relatives beheaded or shot in the back of the head by ruthless terrorists. Our troops are fighting for us so that these thugs are exterminated and the President has done the right thing to protect this Country. I was going to see Shinedown, but not anymore. I’m sure Saddam Hussein and his sons would have loved to have seen them. If they were alive, we’d see if Shinedown ever came back to the US after their show. Get real Shinedown, if it were’nt for our President and the unbelievably brave troops, in time, you’d be dead along with the others in the Trade Centers, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Well said Jim, +1
August 15th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Shot in the head by ruthless terrorists? What do you expect someone to do when they get INVADED FOR NO REASON. How peaceful would our own people be if a country invaded us because of Bush’s bullshit compiled with lies that we had WMD (which we do dum de dum dum). Sick of fucking Republican Satanist Nazis having any word in this country, best thing about the war is there was a decent amount of you closet pedophile faggots that died.