This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Leaders are hard to come by,
followers are omnipresent.
Satisfied with a mediocre lifestyle
Satisfied!
No one is setting a path for us to follow,
no ones striving to be on top.
No one is setting a path for us to follow
we will all fall in the end.
In dying days!
The path has been set,
you're leading far astray.
Far Astray!
The path has been set,
you're leading far astray.
Far Astray!
BRING THE MOTHER FUCKIN' RUCKUS!
In Darkness!
Unfortunate as you may be,
you'll never see the light.
Someone must rise above,
someone must precede.
Unfortunate, you must precede!
Unfortunate!
Leaders are hard to come by,
followers are omnipresent.
Satisfied with a mediocre lifestyle,
Satisfied!
No one is setting a path for us to follow,
we will all fall in the end.
In dying days
As the time to rise approaches
No one will take responsibility
followers are omnipresent.
Satisfied with a mediocre lifestyle
Satisfied!
No one is setting a path for us to follow,
no ones striving to be on top.
No one is setting a path for us to follow
we will all fall in the end.
In dying days!
The path has been set,
you're leading far astray.
Far Astray!
The path has been set,
you're leading far astray.
Far Astray!
BRING THE MOTHER FUCKIN' RUCKUS!
In Darkness!
Unfortunate as you may be,
you'll never see the light.
Someone must rise above,
someone must precede.
Unfortunate, you must precede!
Unfortunate!
Leaders are hard to come by,
followers are omnipresent.
Satisfied with a mediocre lifestyle,
Satisfied!
No one is setting a path for us to follow,
we will all fall in the end.
In dying days
As the time to rise approaches
No one will take responsibility
Lyrics submitted by ArsenicMassacre
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I'd say this song is about the singer's frustration with society- with how people are content to stay in the background and live mediocre lives while the world goes to hell, as long as it doesn't affect their lifestyle too much. There is no one willing to step up and lead- they're indirectly destroying society by not caring enough to fix it, and in the end it will destroy them as well. He's fed up with it- he either wants someone to set things right, or destroy everything and put an end to it... that's where the breakdown fits. If you don't care enough to pull the world out of its shithole... well then, "BRING THE MOTHER FUCKIN' RUCKUS!!!"
im just throwing this out there so dont get all but hurt if you dont agree with me.
i think the song is sorta split in to four different parts/time,(1) before the first shout of in dying days (2) between that part and the breakdown (3) the breakdown (4) after the breakdown.
in the begging it says that no ones being a leader, rising up and taking charge/leading society. in part two it speaks of someone finally leading society-but he's leading them down the wrong path. in the breakdown the singer repeatedly shouts "bring the mother fuckin ruckus" im thinking thats when the leaders corrupt method of leading catches up to him and they go into a war that he loses (hence in darkness). then he might be saying someone needs to rise up and take charge and fix the country/state/city whatever the case may be even if they dont want to, then he repeats the first part "leaders are...satisfied...in the end" as a symbol for time passing by months years OR just a fill i dont know, then in the last verse he says no one took the responsibility when someone needed to
i think the song talks about us a society in general and how only the strong ones will be able to survive. i think it also talks about how people are jus satisfied and never strife to push for more and how we all need a leader to follow that will change all of this...... iono
I do In a way agree. But he also clearly states that those who cause the downfall won't be able to deal with what they caused. He basically calling society weak.
I don't get why he says Bring the Mother Fuckin' ruckus.
bring the mother fucking ruckus is quote from a wutang clan song. amazing song and a agree with the first statement
this song and this whole cd is awesome,i like this part of this song BRING THE MOTHER FUCKIN' RUCKUS! awsome part
this song and this whole cd is awesome,i like this part of this song BRING THE MOTHER FUCKIN' RUCKUS! awsome part
BRING THE MOTHER FUCKIN RUCKUS! it might not relate to the rest of the song directly but it'll get the crowd goin'!
i think "bring the mother fuckin ruckus!" is kind of incorporating the meaning of the lack of a strong leader and what will ensue without one.