| 30 Seconds to Mars – Hurricane Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've seen alot of people talking about the video being about religion, I just wanted to say I think there's more to it than that. Religion really only occupies a small portion of the lyrics, and even then could be taken in a different context. Usually a video isn't a portal into the song's meaning as much as it's an advertisement that makes the lyrics seem easier to grasp so that audiences will be pulled into the music more. It's my belief the lyrics are talking about the cycle of death and destruction that consumes the world. Right off the bat in the first stanza he's calling out all the people who harm others one way or another for profit, asking them that if they really wanted to stop, then why do they continue to perpetrate these crimes? The chorus is a taunt to the ideology that sometimes it's okay to kill others and the results of that ideology around the world. The hurricane is the cycle of death and destruction as it forces those of us afraid of it's devastating path to hide and wait for the storm to leave us, but it never does. The 2nd stanza talks about those who are willing to step out of hiding and try to stop the problem. How the cycle kills them over and over metaphorically, but they continue to push through the storm. The cycle has angered those who fight it to their breaking point, so muchso that they can't help but question how any higher power could possibly allow this to happen, and throwing that in the face of those fueling the storm by showing them that it is possible to stand against the winds. The questing that follows are the replies to the witch hunt that follows when people stand against the cycle. Most famous men who try to lead the world out of the cycle end up dead one way or the other, MLK jr or John Lennon. Jared is asking if he will be killed quickly or slowly for his protest. The last unique stanza talks about hope. The hope all those before us had that their defiance would change the world, and how their actions fell short in the end. Jared is saying he isn't going to hope, because hope will fail him. The remaining repetitions are him saying he will press on because it is the only choice we have, with or without hope. |
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