| Rise Against – The Good Left Undone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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NOT AN INTERPRETATION: This song holds a dear memory for me. When one of my closest friends father's died I was with him. His dad was in the hospital and had failing kidneys. He was suffering greatly and the family decided to pull the plug. I was at his house with him that night, and when the hospital called to notify the family that the father had indeed passed, he joined his mother and sister in another room. I decided that it was best to leave at this point. I told him I was going, and he asked me if he could come with me to get away from what was going on. We just took a drive. The first song that came up on my CD player was this song. The Good Left Undone. Both of us are huge RA fans, and we both knew every word to this song. It is a memory I'll forever have embedded in my mind. Singing "All because of you, I believe in angels. Not the kind with wings, no, not the kind with halos. The kind that brings you home when home becomes a strange place. I'll follow your voice, all you have to do is shout it out" nearly reduced both of us to tears. I know this song isn't about death, but that particular part, along with the chorus (particularly the lines "All because of you, I haven't slept in so long") made for an incredibly emotional connection. |
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| Rise Against – Injection Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The guitar combined with Tim's vocals make this song incredible. The final "Don't let me go"'s are so gut wrenching, it's amazing. I think that the song could be about a person who needs to make a decision regarding the life of a loved one in the hospital. "Do you spend your days counting the hours your awake?" --- Referring to the constant thoughts of this decision. "And when night covers the sky you find yourself doing the same" --- " " "There's a burden you've been bearing, in spite of all your prayers. As the light turns off inside your heart, can you remember what it's like to care?" --- The burden is the decision. When the light turns off, it symbolizes the decision to pull the plug. A couple other things cross my mind. I think the person who needs to make the decision doesn't know what the other person wants. If you think of the chorus as a thought process... "So give me the drug, keep me alive, give me what's left of my life, don't let me go." --- The person thinks, would they want to live? OR "Pull this plug, let me breathe, on my own I'm finally free, don't let me go." Or let them go. Don't let them live a life alone, confined. "The trail of crumbs you left somehow got lost along the way" ---The answer you gave to this question has been lost, so I can't make a decision. "This grip loosens but it never breaks." ---My will to live loosens, but I never give in. |
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| Rise Against – Chamber the Cartridge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is among my top 5 favorite songs by RA. It gets me so charged up every time I hear it, and I always feel a little bit stronger afterwards. "Save us from what we have become tonight. Eyes glazed with distrust, no sense of wrong or right." These two lines connected with the chorus are so well written and strike a chord in me like nothing else. Tim can certainly write incredible lyrics. He's been doing that since '99. |
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| Rise Against – Heaven Knows Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'll go ahead and assume the song is about suicide. I've come to a couple of conclusions: 1. The opening line "The day I learn to fly, I'm never coming down" is not about death, but rather escape. You don't learn to die, nor do you learn to kill yourself. You just do it. I think Tim is talking about the day he finds a way to get away from the world. 2. The video is indeed about a deal gone wrong. If you stop the frame during the breakdown (about 2:13 during the video on YT) the note says: "Tim, I know you said not to deal w/ them, I didn't think, I'm lost and I'm sorry." I have a couple of other thoughts. The "Six million people who keep their fires lit" may be referencing the nearly 6 million depressed people in the United States at the time "Heaven Knows" was written. Just a thought. The other thing I'm wondering is who the "you" is in the song (I bowed my head and prayed for wings to take me from this place, from YOU.) I think it could be anyone who wronged the victim in the past, but I don't think it's Tim. The final line I think about pretty often is: "The sky is listening, the stars all sing along". I think this refers to the dead person listening to Tim's song's wherever he is. |
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