| Rise Against – Kotov Syndrome Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's about US foreign policy. The US is a nation that lives by the sword, they're heavily focused on defence spending and have a notoriously aggressive foreign policy. And when you live by the sword, you die by the sword, and when you go to war all the time, people will start waging war against you. They see the world through crosshairs, from behind rifles, and through TV:s, from their drones. They build 10 foot walls to protect the people and keep them safe, but what they do is cut them off from reality, to the point where the war they started is nothing more than a concept to them. And they have no stake in it. When a nation goes to war, the entire nation goes to war. And every single American has the blood of the innocent people who die in war on their hands. And then they raise flags on top of the corpses and call it a victory. But what have they really won? And the focus on defence spending has impoverished the social safety net rendering it virtually ineffective. So when people need help, there is no one there to catch them, and pick them back up again. And all of this is causing the US to spin out of control. And whenever someone tries to get the country back on track, political pressures and partisan bullshit keeps things fucked up, they collide with each other. And all you need to do is sit back and watch it happen, because it isn't caused by any outside influence, it's all caused from inside the system itself. The bridge is basically saying the things happening in Afghanistan and Iraq, the over a million civilians killed, is not something you can simply forget, or forgive. And bearing the responsibility for such a thing is worse than death. The country has gone in the completely wrong direction and is heading towards ruin. And the only way to be set free of that burden, and to correct the course of the nation, is to cut the anchor weighing you down, ie. the military and the corrupt government. |
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