@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Brothers, my brothers is this all that we are
Sisters, my sisters we've been crushed by the fists of god
Welcome to the free world
Where nothing's as it seems
Tell me, can you find a cure
When you can't see, and you can't feel the disease
Can you seek a higher truth
When you're living on your knees
Where freedom grows from blood soaked soil
In the lands of hypocrisy
'Cause if you can't see the chains tell me what use is a key
It's cash, blood and oil, in the age of the refugee
They're trying to buy our minds, we ain't selling
Bang, bang, bang, hear they're nailing down the coffins
Cut the strings, feel your heart start
Cut the cord
Crack this code of silence
All our lives in the hands of tyrants
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
We've been crushed by the fists of god
We've been crushed by the fists of god
To the left I see the rats and to the right I see the snakes
In my ear they're whispering sweet sermons of cruel hate
So do you buy the fear, or do you buy the lies
Tell me, what will set us free
Do we kneel before the crooked few
Or do we bite the fucking hand that feeds
When death casts no shadow and hope carries no weight
Rise into the light and feel the shackles fade away
They fear what we know, we know how they break
Bang, bang, bang, drop the hammer of conscience
Cut the strings, feel your heart start
Cut the cord crack this code of silence all our lives
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
We've been crushed by the fists of god
We're just waiting for the sky to fall
Yeah I'm just waiting
Feels like all our lives we've been waiting for the sky to fall
Feels like all this time we've been
Brothers, my brothers
Is this all that we are
Sisters, my sisters
We've been
Crushed by the fists of god
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Sisters, my sisters we've been crushed by the fists of god
Welcome to the free world
Where nothing's as it seems
Tell me, can you find a cure
When you can't see, and you can't feel the disease
Can you seek a higher truth
When you're living on your knees
Where freedom grows from blood soaked soil
In the lands of hypocrisy
'Cause if you can't see the chains tell me what use is a key
It's cash, blood and oil, in the age of the refugee
They're trying to buy our minds, we ain't selling
Bang, bang, bang, hear they're nailing down the coffins
Cut the strings, feel your heart start
Cut the cord
Crack this code of silence
All our lives in the hands of tyrants
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
We've been crushed by the fists of god
We've been crushed by the fists of god
To the left I see the rats and to the right I see the snakes
In my ear they're whispering sweet sermons of cruel hate
So do you buy the fear, or do you buy the lies
Tell me, what will set us free
Do we kneel before the crooked few
Or do we bite the fucking hand that feeds
When death casts no shadow and hope carries no weight
Rise into the light and feel the shackles fade away
They fear what we know, we know how they break
Bang, bang, bang, drop the hammer of conscience
Cut the strings, feel your heart start
Cut the cord crack this code of silence all our lives
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
We've been crushed by the fists of god
We're just waiting for the sky to fall
Yeah I'm just waiting
Feels like all our lives we've been waiting for the sky to fall
Feels like all this time we've been
Brothers, my brothers
Is this all that we are
Sisters, my sisters
We've been
Crushed by the fists of god
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Crushed by the fists of god (crushed)
Lyrics submitted by SirDalvion
Crushed Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Ling Benjamin Gordon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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@mariano102 what are zealots?
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@mariano102 thanks for clearing that up for me @sorkorny
This song is awesome! If you want to know what it means read what mariano102 wrote he/she is right! I love this song! Parkway drive rulz!
I agree with @mariano102 however I would also like to add that what is being taken from us by government, politics, media, religion etc. is our freedom. In effect I feel that Parkway are saying that our freedoms have been crushed.
Very much a cry to war ... live on your knees or die on your feet??
@sokorny woah deep
Tell me, what will set us free Do we kneel before the crooked few Or do we bite the fucking hand that feeds
Best lines of the song... Parkway Drive f'ing rules...!!!