Cure For The Enemy

This song is one of my favourites by Billy Talent. It's about losing friends or family members to illnesses like cancer. You should make the best out of the time you have together and if the relationship between you and your parents isn't the best, you should at least try to improve it as long as you can. It's a very powerful song and the band has worked on it for years. I think it was worth it to not give up on this song.

This song is anti-war

Time drifts through the sky Without a reason why We walk past the flowers Don't stop for a breath Until they're above our heads

• We don't stop or rest until we're dead (flowers on the grave)

We used to fight Have we made amends? Father I just can't tell Watching you spent the time you have left Trapped in a cold blue bed

• Talking about the effects after the war, injuries, comas, PTSD. These sicknesses last long after the conflict ends.

In darkness we'll rest Count the days down to one last breath In darkness we'll rest So forgive what you can't forget -Forgive what you can't forget, kind of self-explanatory. When I hear this, I immediately think of the Holocaust (which was a very evil thing I'm not saying it wasn't) and how Germany is so ashamed about their past.

We said that we would call But we never spoke at all The years drifted by We've built up these walls For reasons that seem so small If this is the end, let's bury the past This might be our one last chance Together until the last grain of sand Has dropped from the hourglass

• losing contact with friends and family while in the war.

So open your eyes Open your eyes and don't forget to pray If we lose the fight If we lose the fight your spirit will live through me It's time we make right It's time we make right the pages of history Until we find Until we find a cure for the enemy

• make right the pages of history by stopping wars.

All those you've loved All those who've died All we have left is what lives in our minds All those you've loved All those who've died I know their spirits are up in the sky All those you've loved All those who've died All we have left is what lives in our minds All those you've loved All those who've died I know their spirits are up in the sky

• All those people you fought with and against are dead now.

So open your eyes Open your eyes and don't forget to pray If we lose the fight If we lose the fight your spirit will live through me It's time we make right It's time we make right the pages of history Until we find Until we find a cure for the enemy

• Cure for the enemy is about changing who is our enemies instead of killing or fighting them.

In darkness we'll rest Count the days down to one last breath In darkness we'll rest So forgive what you can't forget

(In darkness we'll rest) All those you've loved (Count the days down to one last breath) All those who've died All we have left is what lives in our minds (In darkness we'll rest) All those you've loved (So forgive what you can't forget) All those who've died I know their spirits are up in the sky

In darkness we'll rest

It's generally speaking about things in the past influencing you negativly in the present. this can be applied to several circumstances, for example griefing of close people that passed away, psychological trauma that controls our present life, war that seperates communities, etc. And when the end gets closer (death), you pick theese things up into your consciousness, but then it's already too late to make a meaningfull difference.