This song was written many years before September 11th and has no direct relation to that event. The song is about a U.S. citizen in the middle east who mistakenly ends up where no Westerner should. He then becomes a symbol for the locals to take out their frustrations on the U.S. by torturing and ultimately killing him. The song itself is not based on any specific real-life event, rather a collection of the events in the news over the years.

This song can be applied to any situation where a life-changing decision is imminent. It basically makes you question whether it would be easier to stay in any current situation you're unhappy in, or take a chance on another situation without knowing how you will end up. Overall the song encourages optimism and, though there may be no easy choices, just accept the ones you've made and don't look back.

This song describes the hypothetical situation of forced abortions on those who have no means to support children, yet they keep having them while knowing they will just discard them later. It outlines situations where the children end up unwanted, given away and unloved. They wish they were never born and end up living off government money while committing crimes against the public who pay the taxes to support them.

There are always occurrences of Mexicans illegally crossing the U.S. border and dying in the desert. Some of their families even try to sue our government for not putting water in the middle of the desert. The song examines this problem and states that anyone is welcomed here who gets in by legal means. Those that wish to take their chances by illegally crossing the desert should blame only themselves if something tragic happens.

This was the first of our songs written after September 11th, 2001 and is meant to capture the immediate, though not necessarily correct, sentiment felt in the U.S. at the time. It is aimed at people who were complaining that the U.S. was discriminating against them because they were the same religion, race, color and background as the terrorists. Every time someone would be checked more closely at an airport, they saw it as a civil rights violation. The song's main message is for them to try and understand that if being safe means hurting a few feelings, then so be it. It also illustrates that we have a right to be suspicious and take a second look at those around us if something doesn't seem right. The truly innocent and law-abiding citizens shouldn't worry or take offense.

Based on the shootings on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Colorado, the song looks at the event from the side of the killers and how being tormented and harassed can drive one to lash out. Whether that was the actual motivation will never be known, but the song is not condoning this extreme form of retaliation. It points out that people should watch what they say and how they act because they never know how others will react to it.

This song is based on a woman named Blanche Taylor Moore. She killed her father, mother-in-law and husband by poisoning them over long periods of time by putting trace amounts of arsenic in their food. The song deviates from the true story in that the woman in the song kills her husbands and then collects on their life insurance. The song tells this story from the woman's point of view, and how her greed causes her to kill over and over again..

There are people who can balance what they learn from their religion with how they live their lives. There are others who seem to live solely based on their religion, so much so that it clouds the way they live their lives. Not meant as an attack on religion, the song focuses on the latter types of people, and how many of them search their whole lives for guidance and answers they'll never find. It also shows how ridiculous it can be to rely on fiction rather than one's own self.

This song is based on the true story of Charles Whitman who, on the morning of August 1, 1966 climbed the steps of the clocktower at the University of Texas in Austin and rained down a shower of bullets on anyone and everyone who was in his sights. The song is written from Whitman's point of view. A portion of the song's lyrics are a direct quote of the letter he left on the body of his mother after he killed her: "I have just taken my mother's life. I am very upset over having done it. However I feel that if there is a heaven she is definitely there now. And if there is no life after, I have relieved her of her suffering here on earth."