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Lyrics:
Hey Mr. Jack,
Is that the mouthwash in your eyes,
Hey Mr. jack,
Is that the cause of your surprise,
Hey where you at,
On the side ... See the rest of these lyrics
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anonymous
June 1st, 2007 04:24PM
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I hope you are familiar with Jack the Ripper, if you know about the case then it kind of make sense
Hey Mr. Jack, (Jack the Ripper or also known as Freeway killer)
Is that the mouthwash in your eyes, (mouthwash burns your eyes[no duh] so I thought it was drugs until I read up on Jack the Ripper and well read down to understand and then I realized something...If you have mouthwash in your eyes you eyes must be red so he was angry at something and snapped at something?)
Is that the cause of your surprise(it means the surpise attack on London that means he began his killing spree, so that is what the last line mean about snapping)
On the side of the freeway in the car(Jack the Ripper was known to wait in his car on the freeway for lost women who's car that has broken down or just walking, so for a while he was known as the Freeway Mass Murderer)
Is that the trick of your disguise (Think about the last line, most lines have to connect to each other someway, as is that the trick of how you killed without being caught. Because Freeways rarely have cops[still don't])
Seven a.m. morning, came to take us away(I've been to london and when I wake up is when I find most cops snooping around at 7.00AM also if you think about it[also proven fact] during the time of Jack the Ripper people and cops were paranoid about what is going on, so they would arrest any person that looked suspicious)
(I don't need to explain little men with big guns...Everyone seem to have a common ground that its cop who think there superior to others because of there power and handguns but you probably didn't know[and I still have the poster in my room] the reward of finding Jack the ripper(s)[rumor there was more then 1] was 4.5 billion euro's Oo that is a lot...So I would feel superior if I had my gun pointed at the guy who is going to give me a billion Euros)
Your prospect of living gone, (This is probably refers to the fake Jack the Rippers or the people in the city, lets change the words..."The reason of living is gone" If your in a city with a killer who could be anyone and anywhere...Why should you bother living[there was many suicides during this time] or people changing there identity to become a follower of Jack or a fake Jack(which is from the people who spread the graffiti around the city which has different words probably mistranslation of people who spread the rumor, and people making pretend they were the killer[P.S:From a recent Police report that a friend of mine found at his police station at 34 street Radcliff England Police office, there has been 112 reportings of Jack the Ripper going to court, 0 went to jail, 112 community service[they had this that long ago?] OLD THEORY^
(I read the next few lines on how they flow to each other[but decided to keep the other proof up just for other theories]
"Your prospect of living gone,
You ran the light at dawn,
Protectors on your back,
Lights are on their track," (remember how I mentioned how cops lit there lights up at 7:00 am well that's the second line. Now since the cops during the time are obssesed with finding this guy wouldn't that make there whole life turn around "Your reason of living GONE!" That means that you got rid of everything you cared about just to find one(or more) killer, getting all geared up to find the guy)
Now this next one might be a little different then what you think...
You must now face authority,
You're nothing like me,
You must now face authority,
You're nothing like me. (The police have to face authority, your probably not agreeing with my opinion but think about it. Cops superior Chiefs and Captain and police warden. Cops[believe it or not] get a lot of griefs from the higher ups because they can't find the guy...It is saying that they have to face there warden because he can't figure out Jack's plan "You're nothing like me!")
Put your hands up, get out of the car,
Put your hands up, get out of the car,
Put your hands up, get out of the car,
Fuck you pig,
Fuck you pig,
Fuck you pig,
Fuck you pig,
Put your hands up, get out of the car. (probably cops trying to arrest a random person on the Freeway because they don't want to get in trouble from the higher ups, and the commoner cursing back because it doesn't want to go for no reason...)
(JtR=Jack the Ripper)
Random facts to help this theory
Names of song:Freeway>Bacon>Mr.Jack
Names of JtR-:Freeway>Leather Apron>Jack the Ripper
(most leather is made from pig skins or cow skins in the old day, and if leather comes from pigs it would relate to bacon)
Rest self explanatory
"The writing was added sometime after the apron piece was dropped — presumably shortly after the murder (thought to have happened just before 1:45am) — but before the discovery of the scrap at 3am" -Quote from Wikipedia, and Case Discovery JACK THE RIPPER!
This time was changed into American time for us so if you change it back to London time it would be about 4 hours ahead...1:45=5:45 3:00>7:00AM
that is my theory if anyone which to reply(((or fix my grammar which I have a feeling I did wrong[when I went to high school we had separate LAL grade and one was Punctuation I got a D average)))
go ahead, I hope to see you soon
The clock ticks at 4:00AM
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der
October 14th, 2005 09:18PM
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As you my have noticed, System Of A Down is a political band. This song is about the police forces. It sounds like someone got pulled over, and also "pig" is an insult to police. Also, it talks about lights on our track like police cars. Little men with big guns pointed at our heads is like they're in power over all of us.
anonymous
November 30th, 2005 07:10AM
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Personally, I think this song may mean that police have nothing better to do then take down people for minor things like running a light. They are so big because they can do this, sooo powerful. They should be thinking about the bigger picture. So, Mr. Jack, take a look around..
MaestroDanno
January 7th, 2006 02:31AM
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If you look at the "Toxicity" album cover, you'll see Serj thanks "Mr. Jack for Mass Relaxaciones". Mr. Jack is their pot dealer. "Is that the mouthwash in your eyes" = red eyed. Mr. Jack has been pulled over and System is mad at authority because they're out of ganja.
anonymous
July 19th, 2006 12:08PM
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I think this song is about a drug dealer who is caught by the police..And was running from them and he had a stand off on the side of a freeway. So the song is explaining what "mr. Jack" is seeing as the police (little men/pigs) are pointing their "big guns" at his head.
Also, they say "put your hands up! Get out of the car! Saying the police are trying to get him out so he will give up..But he returns that in saying "f**k you pig!" so I think at the very end, because the song stops so ubruptly, they shoot mr. Jack.
Thats just my interpretation though. Its probably wrong, but that's what I think that song is about
Darkangel_X
November 5th, 2006 07:04AM
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I don't know how many of you are american, so I'll use melbourne, australia as an example. This is not our nations capital, but even there we have people being pistol whipped by police (eg. My sisters ex), police stealing from drug addicts (police found 3lbs of weed on a guy, took 2.5lbs from it, walked away)...This is anti-police, but why shouldn't it be?
anonymous
December 18th, 2006 07:22AM
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"Is that the cause of your demise" and "big guns pointed at our heads".
Surely about a guy who died because of police brutality.
burningpeaches
February 20th, 2007 09:00PM
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I'm pretty sure it's about the use of police powers and about police brutality. The references to police, cruisers, and being pulled over on the freeway are repeated throughout. And if you look at the last stanza, the meaning becomes very clear:
Your prospect of living gone,
You ran the light at dawn,
Protectors on your back,
Lights are on their track,
You must now face authority...
Put your hands up, get out of the car,
You ran the light at dawn, i.e. drove through a red light when no one was around, something that is only technically a crime. Yet 'your prospect of living gone', you're going to jail. Put your hands up, get out of the car, you must now face authority only because you didn't absolutely respect that authority's power.
anonymous
October 22nd, 2007 12:00AM
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Still saying about SOAD wanting us to put our own meaning in but I believe that the song is about a drug dealer/druggie who gets high and starts driving around and finally he's gets caught by the cops but doesn't wanna go to jail so he fights with them and causes a lot of problems and in the end is shot
SOADFAN123
January 8th, 2008 06:46PM
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This song is about jack the ripper and how he abducted, raped, and killed women but the police could never find him and he would mock the police because they could not stop him from killing innocent women and jack the ripper says "fuck you pigs" because the police cannot find him.
gracken
May 15th, 2008 12:53AM
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When I first heard this song I just asumed it was about Jack Kennedy, how some people think he was not as good a president as most think.
Like the part are "where you at, on the side of the free or in the car" reminded me of the zapruder film where you see the president on one side-in the car- and the free on the other-on the side walk-.
The line of "protectors on your back" reminded me of how, after he gets shot, secret service rushes toward the car.
The line "little men, big guns pointed at our head" is what clenched it for me. Obviously, if I'm right, would be a reference to the cuban missile crisis where these two men, kenedy and krushchev, sent us to the brink of nuclear war and there where literally these big guns (nuclear missiles) pointed at ours, everybody's, heads.
And the end: "fuck you pig" is the general sentiment of people towards someone of authority like a president.
The other lines like the mouth wash, 7 am, and lights on the track I don't know how they fit, so I could be wrong about all of it.
anonymous
May 25th, 2008 03:18PM
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Mr. Jack is a high ranked officer with many privileges. He(Mr. Jack) does things that make the citizens angry. The citizens, or "little men", pull Mr. Jack over at 7:00 A.M. and kill him. The people who say "put your hands up, get out of the car" are the "little men". Mr. Jack says "**** you pig" out of anger, and refuses. The "little men" kill him.
anonymous
July 4th, 2008 11:03AM
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Many people say that with the "running past a red light" and "now you go jail" saying that it supports the police, I think it shows on how much athority can do even on something so small, going past a red light when no one was around... It shows that the police have too much power over us.
Germ_13
September 14th, 2008 09:35PM
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I always thought it was about Jack Napier...heh...funny Joker that guy was...
marka2000
November 2nd, 2008 12:28PM
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The mouth wash in the eyes means that the cops are brainwashed. They can't see because of the propaganda told to them. That would be the mouth wash, Delivered to the cops by mouth to wash them and make them "good" cops.
anonymous
November 14th, 2008 05:52PM
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I think the songs purpose is to talk about how the police waste their time chasing drug dealers, because mr jack is a drug dealer, and how they should go and do something about genocide, like when he says "little men, big guns", and when he says "Fuck you pig!" he's saying that to the government
RooFioRipleyWoR
November 23rd, 2008 10:03PM
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Okay......its time for the correct interpretation of this song. mr. jack is the nickname of their dealer, but he has nothing to do with this song, he was just getting props from the band by using his name in a song. This song is about the fact that after a late show, system was driving on the highway, got a flat and couldnt find the jack, police came and they had drugs or something on them, the mouthwash in your eye is tear gas.......yeah........the police tried to arrest them and as retaliation, system came up with this song
SteebeeMontez
February 9th, 2009 05:35PM
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Uhm, I Think Mr. Jack was a drug dealer, yeahh, some of these dumb asses on here are wayyy off.
anonymous
February 20th, 2009 07:54AM
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It's defiantly about Jack the ripper, I had to do a history report on that guy in year 11, got an 4H 4 high, pretty much an a+ for you Americans, don't know how British are marked or Europeans... but you get the point, excellent grade. He would w8 on the highway, not technically in a car, but yeah, he would pick up prostitutes and fuck them then kill them, the whole song explains, pretty much as that guy said, you've also got to realise that Americans are singing it so they're using American slang, it's not the exact words jack used, you don't have to be Einstein to figure that shit out, I agree with the English guy, with the fuck you pigs and all that shit, still, an awesome song and awesome band,
From:That guy nobody knows about, just because he got top 3% out of whole state (Western Australia) in his TEE's, TEE helps you get you into UNI (Colledge)<- to all the americans
anonymous
March 4th, 2009 07:02PM
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Except there's no proof Jack the Ripper raped anyone, he certainly killed a few women, but he did so in the middle of london, not by the side of a "freeway" our road outside a city, and he certainly didn't hide in cars, particularly given that there were no cars, maybe carriages but a carriage is a pretty obvious hiding place to look in, I don't think you get to be the big name killer nobody could find by hiding somewhere obvious. The whole jack the ripper thing is nonsense. And if you got to the top of your class by saying jack the ripper waited by highways then raped and killed these women, your history classes are idiotic.
CommonInsanity
April 5th, 2009 05:47PM
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two angles.
1 police brutality.
2 a police bust on a drug deal or a rape or idk. but that makes more sense. from the police perspective
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