I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Get up!
This is revolution, a generation rising to become the solution
Torn down by every word
Silenced, no voice to be heard
So you think this is fair?
Hung by their words like a noose
Cross the line if you dare
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said
They said we'd never make it out alive,
But I broke the mold and I survived
Hate is a cancer
We are the problem
Love is the answer
Go
If we're the troubled youth they claim that we are
Condemned to sink to the depths of a world ripped apart
I'd rather spend my life believing there's hope
Than be obsessed with how to tie the end of my rope
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said
They said we'd never make it out alive,
But I broke the mold and I survived
Hate is a cancer
We are the problem
Love is the answer
Higher and higher until we fall
Deeper and deeper into this hole
Shame me, you blame me, you're victimless
Judge me, do nothing like all the rest
I'd rather spend my life believing there's hope
Than be obsessed with how to tie the end of my rope
This is revolution, a generation rising to become the solution
Torn down by every word
Silenced, no voice to be heard
So you think this is fair?
Hung by their words like a noose
Cross the line if you dare
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said
They said we'd never make it out alive,
But I broke the mold and I survived
Hate is a cancer
We are the problem
Love is the answer
Go
If we're the troubled youth they claim that we are
Condemned to sink to the depths of a world ripped apart
I'd rather spend my life believing there's hope
Than be obsessed with how to tie the end of my rope
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said we'd never make it out alive
They said
They said we'd never make it out alive,
But I broke the mold and I survived
Hate is a cancer
We are the problem
Love is the answer
Higher and higher until we fall
Deeper and deeper into this hole
Shame me, you blame me, you're victimless
Judge me, do nothing like all the rest
I'd rather spend my life believing there's hope
Than be obsessed with how to tie the end of my rope
Lyrics submitted by PsychoTrain
Alive Lyrics as written by Briton Bond Andrew Wade
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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