I Am The Message

I can't believe I'm the first person to comment on this song. I really like this one. It's not their best, but it's one of my favorite nonethless. The music video is actually pretty fun to watch- just a bunch of clips from the beginning of their music journey to where they are now.

It wasn't what I was expecting exactly

I don't really know the meaning, so I'll go for a couple options. It could easily be about war. It might also be about a relationship-not necessarily a romantic relationship, though.

"Wear our scars above our arms and covered up Should we keep this open ended, just for us"

I love that line. I think this song is different than a lot of their other stuff. I like how they have such a variety.

And a third thing the song could be about is how they dealt with their previous record label, and about the reflections in all their impurities.

Like I said before, though, I really have no idea what the song is about. Any thoughts?

this song i sick just found them on myspace

Second that angill973- this song is absolutely amazing. I only really noticed how catchy it is after they released it as a single...love it. The way the line "Angel, you mean nothing to me" was said inspired me to look for a meaning but, ironically, here there is none!

Here's my attempt. Most of this song seems to be about ideas...the chorus, principally: "I am the message" i.e. the essence, what gives life, intelligence; "you are the machine" i.e. simply a mechanical method of transmitting that. For that "angel," - more idealistic imagery - "you mean nothing to me".

Secondly, in the first verse they're taking up arms for "virtues", partly to save themselves; yet they "[will] die tonight": again, ideals above practical reality.

Finally, we have the "reflection of all your impurities"; as Jefferson showed, no ideas translate perfectly to reality.

Thus, perhaps, this is a song about almost the essence, the 'soul', if you will, higher ideals...

This rather tenuous link is all I can infer; however, knowing Fightstar, it might just be another awesome song like Grand Unification Pt 1 with no meaning whatsoever!

I believe the chorus is a little less cryptic, as in "if I am the message, then you are the machine", being a metaphor, as in an answering machine on a telephone, and the message that it is storing. So if 'I am the message, and you are the machine", then I have a message to convey, and the person I'm talking to (record company?) has the means to let others hear it. Another idea is that as a message needs the machine to have any relevant purpose, it could just be a metaphor for need for another in a relationship?