Through the Roof and Underground

I just watched the film "Wristcutters" and fell into love with the dreary backdrop, the desperate characters, Tom Waits (once again), and the soundtrack, particularly Gogol Bordello's, "Through the Roof and Underground." I can't stop listening to it, really. It's one of those songs where the lyrics are so intense they read like a novella. While the song is paired well with the movie, for cultural and deep psychological reference, it also stands beautifully on it's own and I can't stop thinking about it or the lyrics.

Somehow the lyrics fit how I feel about my surroundings and how I am always looking for escape in both poetry and mind:

When there's a trap set up for you
In every corner of this town
And so you learn the only way to go is underground
When there's a trap set up for you
In every corner of your room
And so you learn the only way to go is through the roof

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground

And as we're crossing border after border
We realize that difference is none
It's underdogs who, and if you want it
You always have to make your own fun

And as the upperdog leisurely sighing
The local cultures are dying and dying
The programmed robots are buying and buying
And all secluded freaks they are still trying trying

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, and underground

And as the boy scouts learn to read between the lines
The silver rabbits hop between their fathers' lies
And boy scouts ask "Where? Where do they go?"
They go to the country that they only know

Just like their meanings they lay between the lines
Between the borders their real countries hide
The strategigo's saw their advertise
Their strategy of being is one of in-your-face disguise

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground!

And when their own walls they will a-crumble,
And all the systems will be discumbumbled,
Around the stump of bigotry, our own
Serebryanye zayazhy vodyat horovod! [Russian]

Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, and underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof, underground
Ooohoohoooh through the roof! Underground!

Serebryanye zayazy vodyat horovod! [Russian]

Through the roof! And underground!
Through the roof! Underground!