Midnight Regulations

The best song on the new album, without a doubt. It's about the working class, and how much of a struggle they've got on their hands these days what with evil corporations and businesses taking all their money and hope and freedom. They are beaten down to a life of drudgery and hopelessness, forever stuck in a cycle of poverty and dead ends. And Alexisonfire are telling them to revolt, to bring about revolution and change to the way the world works in terms of the poor man.

That's exactly what I thought! Probably the best song off this album!

The switching vocals are awesome.

Wambs, agree for the most part but I think you're looking a little too low on the social strata. This sounds more about the middle class. After all, there is charity for those at the bottom, the people on stuck in a cycle of poverty and dead ends. This isn't about the poor man standing up and taking back, this is about your average man, with an average sized family, in an average sized house with an average car, standing up and taking back all the freedoms and hope that is being taken away from them from those with power.

For instance, "They say just hold onto your hope But you know if you swallow your pride You will choke."

For the average man who works for a corporation or the government, they continually hear how things will get better, how they can make advances within the structure they work, but it never happens. If those people stand up and think against common thought from the top, they can usually find themselves with a pink slip. It's become the Gulag without torture.

You could even argue that 'Midnight Regulations' are the constant regulation from government over business which the common man never hears about, which in turn makes large businesses in to conformist structures since common business practices are increasingly being treated as unethical or outside of the law. This has brought about things like sexual harassment seminars and ethics seminars on a regular basis in the work place. For instance, if you are a salesman with one of these companies, setting up a golf outing with your potential customers is considered unethical on the basis that you are "buying" business. Being yourself is no longer as important as being the model human being, because we live in a sue-first culture. Just think of what Sarbanes-Oxley has done to business here in the States. As an average man, this kind of nonsense has made me truly sick. Good song though!

Ludichrisspeed, reading your comments and then reading my own again, I agree with you completely and that's pretty much what I was thinking, I just wrote it all down wrong. My comment sounds like I think the song's about the poorest of the poor. However, I always think it's about the same kind of people Boiled Frogs is about.

These people aren't below the poverty line, they're not going hungry or living in squalor. They have nice homes and cars and go on holiday every year to someplace warm. But the people they work for have backed them into a corner and now they've no freedom.

That's what I meant to say.

"They say just hold onto your hope But you know if you swallow your pride You will choke."

Chills, every time.

half these lyrics are fuckin wrong!

Rather than go Into depth about what I think the songs Lyrics, I will simply give the definition to a Midnight Regulation. Midnight Regulations are the laws or 'Regulations' passed by a US president during his final sixty days in office.