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Nicole Carlson

Jonathan Chaffer

Paul Espinas

Joshua Hall-Bachner

Kathleen Huber

Roy Janik

Adam Margulies

This song is a very hotly debated one, because many interpretations work and They have given several conflicting ones Themselves. Here are some of the possibilities briefly. A line-by-line reading is unnecessary, as simple word substitutions suffice to understand the song in most cases.

Flans has said at least once that Dirt Bike is about television. This works as a critical peace about the brainwashing, bad effects of TV.

Flans has also said that the song was written about another band. This works because of the plurality of the subject ("They're coming..."), and also because of the presence of "sophomore jinx" in the song. The "sophomore jinx" refers to the pressure on a band to produce a second ("sophomore") album that is as big a hit as the first. Being over this jinx would mean that the band has at least two well-selling albums and can survive in the industry.

Another possibility is that the Dirt Bike is a cult. This would put the meaning of the song along the lines of "Kiss Me, Son of God."

There is the literal interpretation that the song is about real dirtbikes. This theory states that dirtbikes as a fad are dangerous in somewhat the same way as a brainwashing cult.

The substitution of "Third Reich" for "Dirt Bike" has appeal because of the beautiful rhyming qualities of the two words.