At.The.Drive.In - One Armed Scissor
Posted by Randy Jackson at 12:00 am in Rock

At.The.Drive.InI have no idea what One Armed Scissor means, if it means anything at all. I do know that it’s a rocking, high-energy song that’s extremely listenable and enjoyable.

According to Wikipedia:

According to a Channel V interview, a one-armed scissor is a mixture of “red bull and vodka”, and that the song is about their tours told from the omniscient character named the one armed scissor who sees their hardships they deal with while on tour.

Over at SongMeanings.Net, there’s seven pages of people trying to figure out what it’s about. Feel free to draw your own conclusions, or to ignore the lyrics entirely and enjoy the song.

Here’s a link to the video

And of course, the lyrics:

Yes this is the campaign
Slithered entrails
In the cargo bay
A neutered is the vastness
Hallow vacuum check the
Oxygen tanks
They hibernate
But have they kissed the ground
Pucker up and kiss the asphalt now
Tease this amputation
Splintered larynx
It has access now

Cut away, cut away
Send transmission to
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away

Banked on memory
Mummified circuitry
Skin graft machinery
Sputnik sickles found in the seats

Self-destruct sequence
This station is non-operational
Species growing
Bubbles in an IV loitering
Unknown origins
Is this the comfort of being afraid
Solar eclipsed
Black out the vultures
As they wait
Unknown, unknown
Unknown, unknown, yeah

Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away

Dissect a trillion sighs away
Will you get this letter
Jagged pulp sliced in my veins
I write to remember
‘Cause I’m a million miles away
Will you get this letter
Jagged pulp sliced in my veins
I write to remember
I write to remember
I write to remember

Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away
Send transmission from
The one armed scissor
Cut away, cut away
Cut away, cut away
Cut away, cut away

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