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Bring back the child, she said
Spare me the price of freedom
Cold is my baby's head
Blown by the wind of reason.
Even the rage behind
Cries out to see we're still standing
Under the closing edge
Pay for the crime of feeling.
When all your pride is dead
You must be scared instead.

A quiet word is my proposition
A promise made on a fierce day
A body bleeds for this coalition
Without surrender if you stay.

Show me my youth, she cried
Wasted for desolation
Hold up this sacrifice
Pull down your institutions.
Resting while anger flies
Question's the same, who's deciding?
After the clouds have lain shame
On your generation.
When all your guilt lies dead
You must be scared instead.

A quiet word is my proposition
A promise made on a fierce day
A body bleeds for this coalition
Without surrender if you stay.

When all your pain lies dead
You must be scared instead.

A quiet word is my proposition
A promise made on a fierce day
A body bleeds for this coalition
Without surrender if you stay.

Proposition
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I have loved this song since it came out, but I have no clue what it means? Anyone help please?

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It seems that the "Proposition" is to stop all wars. There is a lot of powerful imagery about wars: "price of freedom" being the shattered youth of whole generations; "pay for the crime of feeling" is about the unnatural need to shut down your emotions during a war and behave inhumanly; "who's deciding?" is the eternal question of meaningfulness/meaningless of wars...

I especially like the verse "When all your pride is dead you must be scared instead". Pride is one possible reason for waging a war, but gradually the sense of it all gets lost in the horrors and all that is left is despair and fear.