| Rise Against – Savior Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is a love song, but not "love" as we tend to think of it today. This is speaking in first person as if in a conversation about the relationship between the human race and Mother Nature. To understand this you have to look at everything metaphorically (a single tear = all that nature has left, no time like the present to drink these draining seconds = we must act now to make a change to the way we are impacting the earth before it is too late). Dissecting the chorus: Tim/the embodiment of the human race understands that because of us, Mother Nature is hurting and he wants it to stop, but he claims not to know what to do to change things. Mother Nature looks at Tim and claims not that it isn't his fault, but that he needs to be saved before we as humans destroy ourselves. Time then replies that our destruction is inevitable; just look at what we have done to Nature - and that was with love. The second verse is fairly simple: it explains that where we have brought ourselves today makes it nearly impossible to step out of line and try to break free of the cycle because one person can't make the difference alone, the rest of the world will continue to contribute to it's own demise, and describes the painful impact we have left on the earth. "Now do you understand?" is asking Mother Nature if she sees now why it is we can't help her - we hurt her in the first place. The bridge explains why Tim can't truly help Mother Nature - the world we live in forces us to live the same destructive way as everyone else( with trash piling up - the products we buy, animals continually being slaughtered inhumanely - the food we eat, deforestation - the houses we live in, etc). "I don't hate you" repeated are Mother Nature's final words as she continues to slowly die, begging us to save her (and ourselves) before it becomes too late. Every song by Rise Against has meaning to it. They don't care about "love" in the same sense that Hollywood has trained us to understand it, at least not in their music; they look at it from a world perspective. If a Rise Against song doesn't seem like it really means something about the world we live in, look deeper. Gotta love these guys, they are some of the few that really use their artistic abilities to influence a change for the better. |
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