| Alexisonfire – The Northern Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Just read some other comments too, and I also think is not a sarcastic song about religion. "We are not the kids we used to be," and if that is true then I doubt they would be so childish. | |
| Alexisonfire – The Northern Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The Northern has to do with Canada? Sometimes I think you guys read into things too much! The Northern is possibly just heaven? Roll Jordan, means either to die or be truly free. Many times, especially to slaves, the two went hand in hand. The Israelis in the Old Testament crossed the parted river Jordan into the 'Promised Land'. 'Roll Jordan Roll' is an old hymn come negro spiritual, and I don't think the song has anything to do with slavery whatsoever. The song to me is more about accepting death (or the end, as in the Seven Trumpets from Revelations), and trying to live as best you can in the mean time even if you can never truly understand why you are here to begin with. I heard them say Old Crows/Young Cardinals just came out of the fact that they originally titled it Young Cardinals, but wrote the song Old Crows and felt it made sense to add it to the album title. I think a lot of people are looking at this as a concept album or something, but for me each song stands alone and has a different (and sometimes conflicting) meaning to it. If anything ties the songs together, it is a sense of striving for purpose in an incomprehensible world (or life). |
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| Alexisonfire – Midnight Regulations Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Haha, okay. Well then...I agree! | |
| Alexisonfire – Midnight Regulations Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wambs, agree for the most part but I think you're looking a little too low on the social strata. This sounds more about the middle class. After all, there is charity for those at the bottom, the people on stuck in a cycle of poverty and dead ends. This isn't about the poor man standing up and taking back, this is about your average man, with an average sized family, in an average sized house with an average car, standing up and taking back all the freedoms and hope that is being taken away from them from those with power. For instance, "They say just hold onto your hope But you know if you swallow your pride You will choke." For the average man who works for a corporation or the government, they continually hear how things will get better, how they can make advances within the structure they work, but it never happens. If those people stand up and think against common thought from the top, they can usually find themselves with a pink slip. It's become the Gulag without torture. You could even argue that 'Midnight Regulations' are the constant regulation from government over business which the common man never hears about, which in turn makes large businesses in to conformist structures since common business practices are increasingly being treated as unethical or outside of the law. This has brought about things like sexual harassment seminars and ethics seminars on a regular basis in the work place. For instance, if you are a salesman with one of these companies, setting up a golf outing with your potential customers is considered unethical on the basis that you are "buying" business. Being yourself is no longer as important as being the model human being, because we live in a sue-first culture. Just think of what Sarbanes-Oxley has done to business here in the States. As an average man, this kind of nonsense has made me truly sick. Good song though! |
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