| Rise Against – Dancing for Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this is the best interpretation so far and was about to make my own along these lines. I would also point out that he is glorifying those who who the ground and criminalizing those who don't. "if i held my ground would you ask me to change" "this drought bleeds on now were dancing for rain" could show that them fighting back is them dancing for rain. They are tying to stop these things from happening. |
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| Ana Johnsson – We Are Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think you hit it on the head. | |
| Rise Against – Long Forgotten Sons Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I agree completely with this interpretation goo job | |
| Rise Against – Kotov Syndrome Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about the US but not necessarily about the war in Iraq. "There, high on the watchtower Keeping the peace" Represents the US government that is all seeing (the watchtower) and the police of the planet (keeping the peace) "Whatever that means Because you see the world through Crosshairs and tv's don't you" Here however he is criticizing the government because most of the people in Washington only see the world through the situation screens which all have cross hairs from the guided bombs and individual soldiers weapon cams. "Ten foot walls built around us White picket death So quiet, so safe" Here he is criticizing those who live in the United States of America. The walls built around us are metaphorical but shows that we don't see what is going on around us and outside are country content that what we see is "so quiet [and] so safe". "But if we fall there will be nothing and no one to catch So sit back and watch as we" Here is where the warning comes "Spin out of control Spin out of control Try to recover, but collide with each other We spin out of control" The nation is trying to recover from real and imagined threats but it is impossible to recover with the two main parties fighting for power in the white house. We collide with each other in every decision we make even changing the options to try to fit everyone's views which makes the new decisions worthless anyway. "Something I cannot change I was born in a place That lives by the sword" The US spends an amazing amount of money on the defense (offense) budget. "And thus to it's blade we're condemned Don't you understand why we scream no more ?" Every nation in history that has "lived by the sword" or used the military as option number one has fallen to the sword sooner or later. People are crying no more because they don't want to end that way. "My dreams are of children Orphaned by blood Spilled at these hands Here on the graves of the innocent We raise our flag" The image called to mind is that of the pacific campaign in world war 2. Of the soldiers who raised their flag on that hill after brutal fighting to get it there. The innocent are not only those who die in nations we have invaded but our own soldiers who join the military not really knowing everything they will be doing there. Chorus "Somethings you don't forgive somethings you don't forget Sometimes the fate you suffer is so much worse than death" Only a soldier can know the horrors of war. "Were way off course now and were drifting out to sea So cut the anchor on your heart to be set free" We always start with a plan but never follow through comepletly, sometimes making things worse than they started. Chorus Personally I believe that the military has taken a great task of bringing peace and democracy to the middle east. I think though, that public support has killed the effort. "Public support must be husbanded as a finite national resource. It must be spent wisely, sparingly, and with greatest return on your investment. America is especially sensitive to war wariness, and nothing brings on a backlash like the perception of defeat. I say 'perception' because America is a very all or nothing society. We like the big win, the touchdown, the knock out in the first round. We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't only uncontested, it was positively devastating. If not well.... We didn't loose the last brush fire conflict (gulf war), far from it. We actually accomplished a very difficult task with very few resources and under extremely unfavorable circumstances. We won, but the public didn't see it that way because it wasn't the blitzkrieg smack down that our national spirit demanded. To much time had gone by, to much money had been spent, to many lives had been lost or irrevocably damaged. We'd not only squandered all our public support, we were deeply in the red" (Max Brooks, Wold War Z pg35). Without public support the military can't fight and accomplish their task. |
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| Rise Against – Re-Education (Through Labor) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I really like how you saw this angle and it definitely fits into what is in the song. | |
| Rise Against – Hero of War Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the meaning behind the flag gathering dust is that he cannot get rid of it and it will always be with him. | |
| Rise Against – Hero of War Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is not as much as the actual actions of the individual soldier but of armies and how they indoctrinate the soldiers even when the soldiers no it is wrong. The first line is of the indoctrination that takes place, "He said, Son, Have you see the world? Well, what would you say If I said that you could?" The son cannot say what he would truly think because he is now apart of the very thing he would have most likely criticized before he became a soldier, at the begining he really did think he would be a hero of war. Later during the acts that he knew he was wrong he still joined in, and in joining in he probably got others to join in. This shows that as an individual e would never have done what he did but even though he told them to stop he still joined the group in their immoral acts. Also after each verse of him describing these acts he states that he is a hero and that everyone will love him when he gets back. The most significant line to me is "And I brought home that flag Now it gathers dust But it�s a flag that I love It�s the only flag I trust" Even though he leaves the group and leaves the area where his acts were permitted he still brought it home with him. It is just sitting and gathering dust inside but the memories are still within him and even the glory it brought him to be a soldier still hurts him now. Just my analysis love the song |
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| Rise Against – But Tonight We Dance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The meaning of this song is not just carpe diem, it is much more angelic than that. Throughout the whole song he is talking about the work he goes through he is describing the pain and anguish he goes trough, "but tonight we dance". So yes it would seem like a seize the moment type song until the very end. "And for this I will travel in darkness For what seems like days. I crawled from the sinkholes, Collapsed under this weight. I know not your sorrow, But I know mine. So say you'll stay And dance with me tonight." He is describing his own personal anguish and just wants to dance, "and for this i travel in darkness" "and for this... i crawled from the sinkholes", "and for this... i collapsed under this weight" so for this one thing, this one dance just tonight he is willing to go through this hell of his. At the end he is pleading with this person to "say you'll stay And dance with me tonight." I think this is about finding that one thing that makes your own personal troubles worth living, your one "dance." |
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