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| Rise Against – Life Less Frightening Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think one reason for many artists in writing songs like this is to show those people that everyone feels that way from time to time, its not you per se, it is the system we live in that produces people who are suffocated by these feelings.
Cheer up, a lot of people feel exactly like you when they think about these cold unfeeling lives the system encourages us to live. |
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| Rise Against – A Gentlemen's Coup Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think that both if you guys are missing a couple greater points. For Zero, its this. We don't have control, how do you expect to have equal control? The world controls us. Not the other way around.
Indie, if we are so flawed we need government, then the government is going to be so flawed that it will destroy itself (just like we would destroy ourselves without). So we destroy ourselves either way, when the next revolution comes. Government will not be able to solve the problems we face, people thinking differently though just might be able bring us through to the other side, backwards and forwards, backwards to an organizations that have worked for people, and forwards towards new structures which will order those who want to try to live in new ways (ways that might work). We have tried this way of life with government for 5,000 years, it doesn't work, something else is called for. Something that is Beyond Civilization.
This is I think perhaps the point zer0 is trying to get at. |
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| Rise Against – A Gentlemen's Coup Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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You are far from wrong. The history of our civilizations has been one of mostly violent, and rarely peaceful revolutions (and plenty of wholesale slaughter and conquest of ones neighbors). In all of these cases, they don't fix the problems that led to the revolution, they are just symptom relief.
We can storm the gates of the *insert state* government, take over, impose our own rule, and create a whole new set of winners and losers to start the process all over again. The system itself (in *all* its ideological forms) tends towards inequity.
I hope that you have taken Rise Against's suggestion to read Ishmael. It illuminates some of these ideas much more effectively. You probably have gotten around to a People's History of the United States. |
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| Muse – MK Ultra Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Sorry, 25 years. Its all just about the USSR, people never really thought that these works apply to their democratic governments. But they do. |
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| Muse – MK Ultra Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Also applies to WE!, which predates 1984 by about sixty years. |
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| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Its pretty easy to think the way Bob Marley did, many people will hit upon his vein of thought many times in their lives but few follow it through like Mr. Marley. I'm not talking about the spiritual vision, but the human vision. Its a relic of a past when we actually did live that way (tribal peoples), and without the walls civilization builds around our minds, we could achieve it again. |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – The Fantasy Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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You can apply this song to much of the mass of humanity, brought up on the ideas of human superiority, human entitlement, and "progress". The results in the delusion that we own the world, when in reality it is precisely the opposite, the world does not belong to us, we belong to the world. |
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| The Bravery – Believe Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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They didn't mysteriously disappear. They fucking starved and the Native Americans saved the survivors, who would have never wanted to come back to "civilization" after learning what it is like to live as people should in the sociological sense. |
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| Cage the Elephant – Lotus Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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As I see it, this song is referring to the way of our culture (yes at its core our now global civilization has one dominant root culture) as it has been since it began in the Middle East ten thousand years ago. It has grown to consume the world through its inherent views of manifest destiny. War exists because our culture says to us that we are always right, and that there is a right way for people to live, through religion historically, but through politics more recently. All of this thinking that we are right leads us to war, to destroying ourselves by all trying to live the same way.
Its gonna stop refers to the new revolution going on, people rejecting the root views of our culture, its gotta stop explains itself at this point.
Join the revolution. And remember, Its gonna stop, either in catastrophe, or with a revolution in the thousands of different ways we can live successfully if we stopped trying to make everyone live successfully, and give up our claims of global ownership. |
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| Rise Against – Wait For Me Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I don't think they relate except that those books embody many of the ideals held by Rise Against (environmentalism, anti-capitalism, etc). They probably would help broaden your appreciation of their music some though, if only to keep up with the issues that Rise Against finds important. |
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| Phoenix – Lisztomania Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Instead of duel it duel it...its
Do let do let do let jugulate do let do let do
jugulate refers to kill by slitting the throat by the way. |
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| Chevelle – Jars Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Well they do say "stole the summer scent" in the song, and it says "steals the summer scent" in the lyrics. |
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| DragonForce – Black Fire Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Well its DragonForce, so its clearly going to be about some heroic struggle in a fantasy/medieval setting.
They write music about stuff like that because its cool, and the song does literally MEAN just what it says. But thats not to say you cant be inspired by the music in the sense that one would be inspired by heroic struggles in other situations.
Though I have to say to say that anything by DragonForce is talking about REAL events, is sort of pushing it a bit, I guess you can draw a paralell to real events, but its not what the song was written about.
That said, feel free to be inspired by this music and to draw from it themes like bravery, courage, in the case of this particular song I suppose you can draw some humanistic elements from it.
I guess that sort of explains it. |
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| DragonForce – Disciples of Babylon Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I definitely agree with lolzors on this one. Im not sure about the meaning behind the title and line Disciples of Babylon, but Dragonforce is known for sometimes picking things that just sound cool and flow with the song, but given the history behind Babylon I doubt thats the case.
Something to note though, dont forget the story about the tower of Babel, where humans attempted to reach the realm of the gods, so it sort of goes along with the idea of it as a gateway to the gods as Audio said.
Btw, Pastafarianism FTW!! |
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| Linkin Park – Hands Held High Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Rager, you call Bush a tyrant? Hes more like a sad puppet than anything else. He has no power at all, the man is so stupid I doubt he really has any clue what is really going on, right now hes just the definition of a political figurehead and nothing more. |
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| Rise Against – Give It All Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The meaning isnt obvious? It says to stand up for what you think is right, even against overwhelming odds if you dont stand strong you cant accomplish anything. Its also about finding others that share your beleifs, so that you can stand stronger together. |
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| Rise Against – Survive Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song isnt trying to "fight" the "emo" culture. But rather, it speaks out about the individuals that think they are the only ones with problems. That does happen to describe a lot of emo people, but this song isnt saying that dealing with your problems in a way that is "different" is bad, because "how we survive is what makes us who we are". |
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| Rise Against – Under The Knife Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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First off, great song, I am a big fan of Rise Against.
I really think its pretty obvious what this song means, but I think its always important to remember every song has a different meaning to everyone, and that the artists meaning isnt always what we need to look for.
To me I see this as a person who is stuck in a corner and is at the point where they cant come up with the courage to try to escape. They thing that if they simply close their eyes and hope for the better that eventually everything will be fine.
At least thats the biggest meaning I see, but like every Rise Against song, there are always several meanins in addition to interpreting things differently. |
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