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Rise Against – Zero Visibility Lyrics 10 years ago
I think this song is actually about war veterans, most of this lyrics seem to match men going off to fight in the war of terror, and coming back to a home that isn't what they were fighting for. (I have also made changes to the lyrics to what I think they should be)

I’m saddling in here for the long haul
Can’t hide forever is what they say
In with the wind, out with a bang
Meanwhile nothing has changed

[Saddling in for a long haul fly to deployment, can't hide forever is describing the insurgents, "In with the wind, out with a bang" could describe missiles, Nothing has changed despite all they've done]

With each word slowly uttered
A storm brews in her eyes
A miss shot at the buzzard
Time whether wasted or well spent is still time

[Speaking to his girlfriend/life about what he's doing over there, with her getting angrier with each word she says, saying it doesn't matter if he's doing a good thing or not, he's still not at home]

We are not brave, we are not wise
We stand at the end of the longest lines
But we stand here all together
We have been damned, we have survived
We came back to homes we don’t recognize
But we return here all together

[Pretty self explanatory one you get into the mindset, soldiers coming back home, being damned for being over there, coming back to homes that aren't the same, all coming back home at the same time from deployment]

The moments of clarity here are short lived
Bleed through the bandages again
But when is a lie, no longer white
But black as a day without sun

[Starting to question why they are out there, and each time it's explained it keeps them content for less, old wounds are starting to hurt, and wondering if they were lied to]

Passed out in a gutter
Woke up in your arms
Nursed back into color
The same touch that heals me
Left the scar

[Injured while on duty, woke up in the hospital, "The same touch that heals me
Left the scar" it was government care that got him better, but its because of the government he got hurt in the first place.]

We are not brave, we are not wise
We stand at the end of the longest times
But we stand here all together
We have been damned, we have survived
We came back to homes we don’t recognize
But we return here all together

[Same again from above chorus]

And the world works in ways that I never
Have claimed to know
We got out and fought over the weather
But it followed
The view from here isn’t better
But it’s all we know
It’s all we know

[Beginning to understand that there was some bigger plan by higher up people and it wasn't about why they came over in the first place, people have been fighting over the credibility of climate change because of the fossil fuel consumption, and people aren't changing because they are afraid]

We are not brave, we are not wise
We stand at the edge of the borderlines
But we stand here all together
We have been damned, we have survived
Who we become you won’t recognize
But became them all together
All together

[Waiting to check back into the country, still damned by their country, and no-one understands but the people who have been there]

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