The Strength to Go On

"These colors run then leave a stain" is such and incredible line to counter all those people with the "these colors don't run" stickers in there trucks. Sounds to me like the song is about America's tarnish reputation by our leaders.

at the end when he repeats the chourus twice the first time it sounds like "Lives" instead of "Lies" but all the other times it sounds like "Lies"

This is not a solid meaning, but it comes to my mind when I listen to the song.

My favorite book series of all time is the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. It's a big , 12 book series with each book being 700 - 1000 pages. Like RA, the books are filled with meaning. I was reading one of the books, and this song came on. After listening to the lyrics closely, I seemed that this song was made for the book. No joke. It's almost as if it's the series crammed into a few verses. A

Anyway, that's just my feeling. I doubt that RA actually based this song on the books, but they both have the same beliefs.

I know that I wasn't asked, yet I'll give a quick response, regardless.

@ILikeThatPanda,

I'm going to go ahead and venture a guess that few - if any - of these guys are Christian. Being that they stand in opposition to just about everything that Christian Society has created, I'd be blown away to learn otherwise. Frankly, with their world view, the way events are really going down and the way things are headed, I can't imagine why they'd believe in any god at all. Maybe Buddhism, at the worst.

It is a damn good question though. Because I've wondered the same. Too bad the likelihood of them over proclaiming a religious-alliance (if any) is next-to-nil. And good on them for it. Don't let the nonsense get in the way of the truth, right?

I think it's about a soldier coming home after a tour or duty and the struggle of day to day life We propose,A better way"Said the note they left behind in their wake of disarray is like him get home to his wife leaving and alot more if you look at it like that

This song begins with a 1984 feel:

"They have tampered with the locks And your things they rearranged

'We propose a better way.' Said the note they left behind"

the chorus is a fairly true statement of all people, being the sum of many a lie, but the emphasis is that the song sings of people particularly surrounded by lies and little truth to the point at which they have little they can truely be certain of. I like the point they make that people are who they are until they die or until they break under pressure. Everyone breaks down under torture it's just a matter of time and pain.

one of the more interesting themes of the song is the distrust of one of the people that accompany the main singer. He distrusts someone (the second person understood) because the look in their eyes but truly he's heard too many lies to really believe that they're really a liar despite the look in that person's eyes. run through a world of lies there's little to believe, so despite the belief that they aren't who they say they are they remain with the main singer despite the many times he tells the second person understood that he doesn't believe them.

The melody reminds me of their other song entitled "The Good Left Undone",impressive.

"But we are what we are until the day we die Or until we don’t have the strength to go on" i think its like untill you have your own voice, your beliefs, untill you break under the pressure of society.

@mxbrady - 1000 LIES is in the booklet and Tim himself says that this song is about information that spins in the world

"But the heart reveals What smiles betray Your sad sad eyes gave you away Don’t you know"

~~LOVE this part!!

i am just putting this out there: could this be referring to TIbet?

"In their wake of disarray" "you fell in place"

it could be talking about the communism and how they were just put in place...through the confusion and force the tibetans were manipulated

"your poor disguise that fails to fool"

could be referring to China's attempt to mask what they were doing to the Tibetans

just putting that out there, although i don't think it was meant to be quite that litteral?

perhaps it can just be applied to that..