From Calm Like a Bomb, I'm having trouble figuring out the context of a line within the stanza below:

There's a mass without roofs,
a prison to fill;
there's a country's soul that reads, post, no bills;
there's a strike and a line of cops outside of the mill;
there's a right to obey
and a right to kill.

The emboldened part sounds correct, but I just can't make sense of it.

Is it "soul that reads Post, no bills" or "soul that reads, post no bills"? Or are the words incorrect?

I have no clue.

3/14/2011 2:53:15 PM

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"post no bills"

3/14/2011 2:54:28 PM

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""Post No Bills" is a phrase spray-painted onto walls in urban areas everywhere to discourage any pasting of banners, posters, and the like. These handbills may be advertisements or the like, but are often political in nature. "

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/290/

3/14/2011 2:55:09 PM

Awesome.

Thanks.

3/14/2011 3:03:14 PM

I like RATM because it pretends to be intellectual, but in reality all of it is beneath anyone who has taken a 7th grade history class.

3/14/2011 3:09:50 PM

but de la Rocha is still the anti-myth rhythm-rock shocker

3/14/2011 3:18:59 PM

the part where he says

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"We're poppin', shockin', rockin', put a side of hip-hop Because where we're goin' there ain't no stop"

always ends up as "snug as a bug in a rug with a side of hip hop" when i hear it

3/14/2011 3:20:33 PM

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"I like RATM because it pretends to be intellectual, but in reality all of it is beneath anyone who has taken a 7th grade history class."

For the sake of being argumentative, I must have dozed off in the seventh grade when I learned that

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"'Post No Bills' is a phrase spray-painted onto walls in urban areas everywhere to discourage any pasting of banners, posters, and the like. These handbills may be advertisements or the like, but are often political in nature."

3/15/2011 12:25:49 AM

fuck you

I won't do what you tell me

3/15/2011 4:14:26 AM

3/15/2011 7:35:21 AM

Knowing what "post no bills" means is more common sense than anything.

3/15/2011 9:56:08 AM

lol sick burn.

I still can't say that I've ever heard that anywhere.

I see the word "bills" and think it's referring to a payment of some sort.

3/15/2011 4:05:07 PM