The Unfortunates

Album: Year of the Crow (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about the West Memphis 3, who are 3 Arkansas teenagers convicted in the 1993 murders of 3 eight-year-old boys. The convicted teenagers maintain that they are innocent, and that citizens of their Arkansas town considered them Satanists because of their taste in music and their Wicca rituals. >>
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    JP - Monmouth County, NJ

Comments: 2

  • John from Ny, Nyjp is right..gang of thieves is about groups of men in control of oil who go to war over it so on so fourth basically says it should be people before profit ..but unfourtanatly its not that way
  • Adam from Boulder, CoThis is incorrect, JP has confused Revolutionaries with the State Radio song "Gang of Thieves"
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