This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Oratory of hope and glory, a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot, you can't be far behind
The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind
[Chorus:]
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from his grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
Dig around the cemetery, a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus of this somber ceremony
[Chorus]
The sanctimonious minions - how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design
Requiem
Requiem
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot, you can't be far behind
The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind
[Chorus:]
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from his grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
Dig around the cemetery, a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus of this somber ceremony
[Chorus]
The sanctimonious minions - how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design
Requiem
Requiem
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
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Requiem for Dissent Lyrics as written by Greg Graffin Brett W. Gurewitz
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These lyrics are done all wrong, if you don't know what they are don't put them up.
Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme An effigy, a soldier out of time Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind
Requiem Bring the dissident from slumber Requiem Raise the rebel from its grave Requiem Sound the revolution's thunder A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
Dig around the cemetery a record of the day Friends and neighbors in stages of decay But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery The stimulus for this somber ceremony
Requiem Bring the dissident from slumber Requiem Raise the rebel from its grave Requiem Sound the revolution's thunder A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet Authority is populist deceit Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline Just a victim of irrational design
Requiem! Requiem! Requiem Bring the dissident from slumber Requiem Raise the rebel from its grave Requiem Sound the revolution's thunder A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
I think "But it’s sad to see ‘em all they ___?" is supposed to be "But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery"
It is "But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery."
There are also minor mistakes such as "dig around THE cemetery, instead of a cemetery."
This song is so "no control"
That's exactly what I was thinking, knowone!
I love this song. One of the best on the new album.
Also, in the chrous, it is 'raise the rebel from his grave.' I agree, this song sounds as if it is off of No Control.
its the dissident from slumber
and rebel from his grave
Here is my understanding of the song: The requim is a Catholic Mass known informally as the funeral Mass for its focus on praying for the souls of the dead. Many classical songs were created for this Mass. Looking on this from that angle, this is like an opposite requim for all the dead and particularly for the punk spirit and the revolutionists who have stopped fighting (a sort of death). Rather than praying for these souls to make it to the afterlife, this song tells them to get back up and fight. I think this is a powerful rallying cry for people to start standing up for what is right rather than let it die.
i wish the people who post the lyrics would just read the cd sleeves i see many flaws in this one
Hi all! I learned english by translating BR songs (i speak french), and still have problems with some lyrics. so would s.o. tell me what is the "monumental blunder"? is it sarcasm about revolutionary utopia? don't understand where the fuck is the mistake, when all song seems to talk about waking up and acting.. thanx
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