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Senses Fail – Irony of Dying on Your Birthday Lyrics 16 years ago
this is definitely my favorite senses fail song. i totally agree with what he's trying to get across, if i am interpreting it right. i feel like hes trying to say how very few people are remembered after time progresses. he uses examples like God and jim morrison to explain how they are significantly "famous" and will not be forgotten. i think in the chorus, he basically says how he starts drinking and going depressed because he cant reach a famous position. i feel the serial killer line is him reachign a breaking point where if he cant acheive fame, killing someone may be the best way to do it. the title confuses me a bit, but the closest thing i can relate is that if someone dies on their birthday, it might give them a little remembrance of them

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Rise Against – Elective Amnesia Lyrics 17 years ago
my bad, just a few adjustments...

We don't sleep very much
These triggers ache for the touch
Where's the strength we relied on?
Fear alone, like a crutch,
maybe that's what keeps us up
all night with the light on

All these screams, simulate,
Lives that no longer take place
Can this be what we've become?
Paper thin, overweight,
pills to arouse or sedate
Still we don't know what we want

We can't let go
Can't you see?
To lose control
is to be...

Finally free!
First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
into the darkest of nights
disconnect
cut the cord
lines are dead
Now they'll know
with everything comes a price

And each day we are torn
between the right and the wrong
between life and convenience
Why lose sleep? Why complain?
There's always channels to change
It's like elective amnesia
As we grow older in this place
Let's just start over
Let's erase
What they've made!

First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
into the darkest of nights
disconnect
cut the cord
lines are dead
Now they'll know
with everything comes a price

It could be minutes away
It could be hours or days
Before the bottom falls out
Before the ground gives way
Into this debt we are born
A debt we try to repay
And yet we blacken the sky
Smoke rising out of the flames
Now they'll know...

First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
into the darkest of nights
disconnect
cut the cord
lines are dead
Now they'll know
with everything comes a price
(First a spark)
(Then a flame)
(Now a fire)
We explode
We explode
With everything comes a prince
(disconnect)
(cut the cord)
(lines are dead)
We explode
We explode

these sound perfect, but that "all these screams simulate" part is still a bit hard to make out

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Rise Against – Elective Amnesia Lyrics 17 years ago
REAL LYRICS

We don't sleep very much
These triggers ache for the touch
Where's the strength we relied on?
Fear alone, like a crutch,
maybe that's what keeps us up
all night with the light on

All these screams emulate
Lives that no longer take place
Can this be what we've become?
Paper thin, overweight,
pills to arouse or sedate
Still we don't know what we want

We can't let go
Can't you see?
To lose control
is to be...

Finally free!
First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
into the darkest of nights
disconnect
cut the cord
lines are dead
Now they'll know
with everything comes a price

And each day we are torn
between the right and the wrong
between life and convenience
Why do we sleep? Why complain?
There's always channels to change
It's like elective amnesia
As we grow older in this place
Let's just start over
Let's erase
What they've made!

First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
into the darkest of nights
disconnect
cut the cord
lines are dead
Now they'll know
with everything comes a price

It could be minutes away
It could be hours or days
Before the bottom falls out
Before the ground gives way
Into this debt we are born
A debt we try to repay
And yet we blacken the sky
Smoke rising out of the flames
Now they'll know...

First a spark
Then a flame
Now a fire
We explode
into the darkest of nights
disconnect
cut the cord
lines are dead
Now they'll know
with everything comes a price
(First a spark)
(Then a flame)
(Now a fire)
We explode
We explode
With everything comes a prince
(disconnect)
(cut the cord)
(lines are dead)
We explode
We explode


anyway, i still have trouble telling what it's about. from the actual title, you think it would mean something about choosing (elective) to forget everything (amnesia). but the lyrics dont always cover that, unless amnesia just refers to complete chaos in a person (we explode; lines are dead). other than that, i still am trying to interpret it. what yosh said about the reference to injection seems quite possible too, but not completely

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Rise Against – Injection Lyrics 17 years ago
my all time favorite song by far.

i pick up many things in this song, like some sort of addiction (most likely drugs) and some sort of messed up relationship. whatever the case is, this person is depressed and maybe has resorted to taking drugs (Knees are weak, hands are shaking, I can't breathe
So give me the drug, keep me alive)
I think that maybe the other person in the once great relationship is who this person feels they need in order to get their life back on the right track. (Guide me through uncharted waters
Before we lose our way again)
This song, in my opinion, is Rise Against's best song and it should be more popular

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Rise Against – Entertainment Lyrics 17 years ago
one of my favorite songs on this album, right next to savior and re-education. its definitely about the life of celebrities and big stars who do not have a good life at all, although to people it seems like they are truly living life. i love the beginning and that carnival sounding part.

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Rise Against – Savior Lyrics 17 years ago
i have to agree with rocky1867 on the meaning. the guy probably is not not a good man, whether it be morally or socially or whatever. the girl says although she knows they may not be able to function, she wants to help him recover from his negative state. during the verses of the song, i think he is sayin that the break up had already come, and he had become a worse person, and still loved his old girl.

its one of my favorites on the album along with entertainment and re-education. i still wnated it to be more hardcore like everyone else tho

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Coldplay – Viva la Vida Lyrics 17 years ago
AMAZING song for sure. I have a feeling its a metaphor for many things. it can actually be about once ruling the world and than having no power, but it can also be somethnig about a relationship he once had that was amazing and he completely screwed it up and feels horrible.
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

talks about how he falled from great power and now is thinking about it

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemies' eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead, long live the king
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

he once had enough power to cause a great deal of fear upon enemies, or just bragging about his power, and then it went away and he realized it might have not been that great [referring to his pillars of sand and salt]

I hear Jerusalem bells were ringing
Roman cavalry choirs were singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you'd gone there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world

when he ruled, he was amazing thing for everyone, but now, things are much worse

It was a wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever want to be king?

thinking that maybe such power was not so great after all and is starting to have second thoughts or maybe just convincing himself that it wasnt great

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Coldplay – Viva la Vida Lyrics 17 years ago
AMAZING song for sure. I have a feeling its a metaphor for many things. it can actually be about once ruling the world and than having no power, but it can also be somethnig about a relationship he once had that was amazing and he completely screwed it up and feels horrible.
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

talks about how he falled from great power and now is thinking about it

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemies' eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead, long live the king
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand

he once had enough power to cause a great deal of fear upon enemies, or just bragging about his power, and then it went away and he realized it might have not been that great [referring to his pillars of sand and salt]

I hear Jerusalem bells were ringing
Roman cavalry choirs were singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you'd gone there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world

when he ruled, he was amazing thing for everyone, but now, things are much worse

It was a wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever want to be king?

thinking that maybe such power was not so great after all and is starting to have second thoughts or maybe just convincing himself that it wasnt great

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Three Days Grace – Pain Lyrics 17 years ago
this song is not the best one on the album...anyway, i think its about self-damage, and the speaker is saying to the person theyre reaching out to how the pain will be pleasureable once they find they have more of a negative outlook on things "when the lights go off you'll understand "

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