Radioactive

I think its a bout someone realizing the modern age we live in and how messed up it can be and how worse it could get. Here's my breakdown

"I'm waking up to ash and dust" A reference to all the pollution and stuff in the air

" I wipe my brow and sweat my rust" Working for the machine

"I'm breathing in, the chemicals" Yet another reference to the pollution and crap in the air we breath

"I'm breathing, shaping up, checking out on the prison bus" Getting on the bus to go to work where you slave at a job for less then what it's worth

"This is it, the apocalypse" Everyone thinks the world is going to end any day now now day

"I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones, enough to make my system blow" The awareness hits him and thus he wakes up from the fantasy that many people live in. But the awareness is more then just being aware it's a deep realization of whats really going on.

"Welcome to the new age" We live in a new age like no other one that has come before it.

"I raise my flags, don my clothes, it's a revolution I suppose" These lines could be reference to the change in the way man lives and how it's revolution against nature it's self or they're about the corrupt governments that say they will change the world and how their going to fix all their problems

"We'll paint it red, to fit right in" A reference to how everyone acts the same and strives to fit in or how all the changes and revolutions world leaders try to start usually end up in blood shed and death like every other one before them.

Then his talk about being radioactive I think is a kind of a testament to what mankind has and can be which is very destructive and harmful to everything around it. Plus with all the lights we glow.

But then I think who ever realizes all this finds some hope and looks to fix and help the world thus the "All systems go, the sun hasn't died" and then the going back into the waking up and what not.

That's what I think the song is about.