| Dashboard Confessional – This Bitter Pill Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[UHmericanKitsch:51930] not that it really matters, but Dashboard IS emo. That's not a bad thing though because it's 2024 and people have started to realize "emo" =/= bad | |
| Senses Fail – American Death Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Alright, I submitted a MAJOR edit that should fix these very incorrect lyrics, now to the actual meaning of the song... "Is this the end of my life or just the end of the world?" Is this the end of the singer's life, or the end of everyone's life? "Skeletons rule the cities as the innocent burn / and if you stand up and fight with your black flag tonight / they'll put tape on your mouth as they kiss you goodbye" Discussing one of the atrocities of war: innocent people who aren't even fighting in the war among the many people who die in most wars. This section conjures up very apocalyptic imagery of dead bodies lying in the street while everything is up in flames. The second part of this section is referring to government censorship or silencing of those who participate in anti-war protests in some portions of the world. As for the whole "Dance, dance, dance, dance" part of the song, I initially had no clue what it could mean. But after a little thinking, I think this verse is not meant to be taken literally, and is more metaphorical. Dances involving other people often involve collaboration from both dancers to insure that they don't stumble or otherwise mess up the dance. With this in mind, I think the "dance, dance" lyrics are meant to be asking the listeners to join buddy harmoniously in his anti-war sentiment. Now onto the "You know you can't stay neutral on a moving train" chorus. As another commenter said, this chorus makes reference to the book of the same name by Howard Zinn. The book, as well as this chorus, urge people to perform activism / protests because staying neutral and doing nothing would be the least optimal route, changing nothing and perpetuating societal injustices. The "bird with wings who doesn't fly" is a metaphor for those who have the ability to do something great (the "wings"), but never utilize that ability (they don't "fly"), in this case protesting against societal injustices. "There's still war on page six / America don't die like this" These lines are commenting on how, even very early on in history books about the United States, there's still war occurring. This is likely supposed to draw attention to how not much has changed between the hyperbolic "page six" of the history books and the later pages, or periods in history. War is still something the US gets periodically involved in. The "America don't die like this" is probably supposed to be echoing the sentiments of the presidents who led the aforementioned wars against other countries, who make people feel patriotic over the idea of warring with another country. |
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| Senses Fail – American Death Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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America don’t die like this* Also it’s THERE’S STILL WAR ON PAGE SIX, not that dreadfully misheard line |
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