The Violence

I think it's obvious but Imma keep it fun

"Dancing on the crumbling precipice The rocks are coming loose just at the edge Are we laughing? Are we crying? Are we drowning? Are we dead? Or is it all a dream?"

We all had these dreams, or rather things called nightmares, where we meet our fate. An existential crisis is born of being humans, and the curse of being an advanced species and society on earth.

"The bombs are getting closer everyday "That can never happen here" we used to say Have these wars come to our doorstep? Has this moment finally come? Or is it all a dream?"

Despite the recurring themes of dreams, war is an inevitability, war exists in different ways and plays out according to their roots of the problem.

"Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? Is the violence in our nature Just the image of our maker? Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough? To become something greater Than the violence in our nature? Are we not good enough Or is it all a dream?"

Is the question of redemption a question of futility, regardless of whether or not you are religious/spiritual you may believe we are worthy of redeeming ourselves before death. Murder is the ultimate sin, followed by the storms of apathy, arrogance, and complicity that comes natural to us when it doesn't involve our personal selves or loved ones. But there is so much more that makes the idea of being worthy of redemption futile, like rape and murder. We can't say whether or not society as a whole has redeemed itself in spite of its problems, because it's a practice of futility, for better or worse.

"To a predetermined fate are we condemned Or maybe we're a book without an end We're not stories, we're not actors We're awake and in control And this is not a dream

So can we break this mold And set in motion something new Forgetting what we know An evolution overdue Fight the current Pull the ripcord Get away!"

Reality is not acting, is used as an influence to imitate, pretty straightforward.

"We travel back to what we take We need a storm, let's pray for rain now To wash these roads away Let's get off track and wander far Same roads lead to same destinations Follow nothing but your heart We're talking in our sleep And sleeping through our lives We dream of the places where we never die We step from our shadows and into the light "

Every day we hear different interpretations of the end of all things, the familiar themes come into play and we expect them to meet an exact end. It will never be clear how society or the world ends. All we really have to go by is expansion of the cosmos, which is so far apart from our lives that it's pointless to dredge on about. Heaven is a posthumous perfection we'll never attain, it will be all a dream up until death.

Pretty easy to see that it is an Anti War song. On a deeper level than just the wars we fight with our government's at the helm, it talks of the war in our nature to wage it, and of the struggle to be better. It is beautiful, and I hope it hits home for all who hear it.