This song fucking rocks. Refused had a real message to tell, rather than the bullshit we're contantly exposed to, be it through school or television or popular opinion.
I believe this song is about our inept instinct to follow the "norm", simple as that may sound. We are "silently sedated", numb to our own individuality; our emotions suffocate beneath the dominant mindsets of the ignorant power figures who surround, control and manipulate us in our thoughts and actions. We have no choice, an alternative to nothing, since when we raise our voices we are shunned and humiliated while smiling conformists glad-hand fellow weak-willed individuals. In the end, it is the comfort in the realization that we will all someday die that makes the day worth getting out of bed for. We are ruled by the instinct to prolong life (our "love"); although it is ludicrous and childish to follow the herd, it is necessary to do so in order to assuredly lengthen our influence and existence within our tradition-based society. Refused is saying that we are already dead, yet ironically it is life that pushes our dead existence forward. Hence, life support addiction.
This song fucking rocks. Refused had a real message to tell, rather than the bullshit we're contantly exposed to, be it through school or television or popular opinion.
I believe this song is about our inept instinct to follow the "norm", simple as that may sound. We are "silently sedated", numb to our own individuality; our emotions suffocate beneath the dominant mindsets of the ignorant power figures who surround, control and manipulate us in our thoughts and actions. We have no choice, an alternative to nothing, since when we raise our voices we are shunned and humiliated while smiling conformists glad-hand fellow weak-willed individuals. In the end, it is the comfort in the realization that we will all someday die that makes the day worth getting out of bed for. We are ruled by the instinct to prolong life (our "love"); although it is ludicrous and childish to follow the herd, it is necessary to do so in order to assuredly lengthen our influence and existence within our tradition-based society. Refused is saying that we are already dead, yet ironically it is life that pushes our dead existence forward. Hence, life support addiction.