| Metallica – Don't Tread On Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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One more thing: The fact that being pro-war can be considered patriotic is frightening... Think about it, would that mean that being a pacifist is un-patriotic? |
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| Metallica – Don't Tread On Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[Adeori:6842] ; @[no:6843] bullshit It is kind of sad that the highest rated comment on this song states that this is pro-"American" patriotism when the opposite is so permeating in the lyrics. Metallica as a band are pacifists, for example see the song One. When the lyrics state that "to secure peace is to prepare to war" it is a dystopian ridiculing of a too true fact of American politics. War is a quick mean to end a conflict, but not a stable way to preserve peace in the long run. And in the end that is really what Don't Tread on Me is about to me, the fact that they who loves war will find themselves in the dichotomy of liberty or death, the destructive path of aggression that only leads to fear, hate, pain and suffering in the end. No one who is evil see themselves as evil, and that is why the narrator of this song may seem pro-war. But considered as a whole, the song ridicules the narrator's point of view and paints a dystopian picture of the ignorance that leads to. |
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