| Protest the Hero – A Life Embossed Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Rody himself confirmed this (and took part in a discussion about it) on the band's facebook page. | |
| Protest the Hero – Yellow Teeth Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song resonates with me in terms of bullying. Not only in school, which seems much more publicized, but everywhere. In my own case growing up (and even now as an adult), I encountered many situations where I was shunned or ignored without knowing why, and people would and still do snicker behind my back ("The years exaggerate how horrible it was to be stricken silent with no explanation for the cause."). It would have been better for me, and surely for others as well, to be confronted about what people found wrong ("Speak up. Speak clear. Speak ill of me.") instead of spending energy assuming and making up worse case scenarios in my head ("Left to my own devices, I am strange."). It's easier to accept when you mature, but when you're young it can feel like you have nothing, and maybe thoughts turn to suicide because of it ("They are the rope around the neck. They are the blade pressed to the wrist."). However, at some point I realized that it was indeed meaningless, and that, really, nobody is as unique (be it in a good or bad way) as they think they are, and indeed "I am everyone, and everyone is me." |
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| Protest the Hero – Plato's Tripartite Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| While it might not be based off the Maryville case directly (the Nova Scotian one being more likely, as JustinNickers pointed out, especially since the band's Canadian), similar stories are popping up all over Canada and the US. | |
| Protest the Hero – Tilting Against Windmills Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I don't think it's just about sexuality, but rather the strict interpretation of what's deemed right or wrong in religion as a whole. I myself don't hear "he's proud to be straight" in the first line, rather, "he's bound to be saved". | |
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