Remember Everything

After having watched the video for this sing, the meaning seems very clear to me. The video opens up with a baby being admired by his parents and drawing in a completely white room. He has a half dollar coin, likely minted the year of his birth, this is a symbol. He celebrates his birthday, plays with toys, he seems like a perfectly normal and happy child.

Then we see his father begin drinking and yelling at him and he runs away, only to find his mother yelling at him. He gets a little bit older and the abuse continues, he now is drawing dark lines and using spray paint in the white room where the innocent child drew pictures. He sits on a rock and holds the coin in his hand

As he grows older, we find him in his late or early twenties. He has a girlfriend now and they get married. He continues to paint in dark lines. For the first time now, we see him drinking. the next scene he is in an argument with his wife, lightly shoving her. When in shows him in the painting room he is distraught, sad and angry with his painting.

Next we find the boy, now a man, walking away from him home in cammies. He in shipped off to combat, he receives letters from his wife as one would expect. While there, we see him shoot a man dead with his rifle, and he instantly has a terrified look as if to say "What have I done?". There is more painting in the room, but this time it is dark thick marks made with a paintbrush, he is no longer painting anything specific, just dark marks. He looks over his dead friends.

He returns home from war and we see he and his wife having a BBQ with some friends, he seems zoned out. He continues to drink. in the next scene there is a woman walking away with suitcases, presumably his wife. He now is taking a hammer to all his childhood mementos, wedding mementos and alcohol. He is screaming and the video flashes between him screaming and his dad screaming. He is now just throwing black paint on the walls of the white room

Now we find him laying in a hospital bed, hood up to IV and EKG. He flat lines and we see the coin fall out of his hand. End of video.

Judging by this it seems that a boy is born, he is abused by his parents. Because of this, he grows up like his father did. Once he realizes he has grown up to be what he hated, he tries to fix it but it is too late. He dies lonely.

The coin is a symbol for his troubles. He was given the coin as a boy and was abused as a boy. He hung on to both of these things until he died, he dropped the coin symbolically letting go of his problems, it took death to free him.

Please feel free to correct me if you interpret differently.

Im not even sure what to say at this point. I was a abused child, im all messed up because of it and thats what i take from this, and yes I cried

I love this song, It's pretty obvious what it's about. I cried the first time I listened. x.x

... I think of my parents and family when i hear this... because it seems like I'm never good enough for any of them... no matter how hard I try... I'll always be a whore and a retard and a bitch..... sometimes it's hard to hear those words from my family.... but now adays... i just feel numb. I love this song.

Wow, I was really not expecting this song. I think it's one of the best on American Capitalist. It's definitely got that power-ballad feel while still keeping that nice heavy guitar in the back, just hardly noticeable.

It sounds like a suicide note that was the first thought that came to mind when I heard the song, I came across it by chance I would have never listened to the band if it were not for a survey....(that is all I can say about the survey) but I really like the song

I just saw them last night and they played it acoustically, and Ivan was crying when he was singing it. Very moving to watch

You guys should check out the video for this song on youtube. Some of FFDP's videos are clearly linked to the song and this is one of them... I think it explains it quite well.

'One friend can save a life'

I feel that alot of us feel this way about our lives and we wonder if it didn't need to be that way. If we knew the outcome of ours and others in our lives paths... could we have changed anything for the better. Would we still have learned what we have about ourselves and the world we struggle in?

Talking with other people, this song seems more like a suicide note. At times, apologzing to his family for not being what they wanted. Later, kind of talking about wishing he had never been born!