This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
It's in the paper every day
You see it in the headlines and you feel so sick
As another life leaves this world - this world so full of hate - but short!
Short on compassion, short on humanity
Asking myself in vain, shaken by the shock…
"Do we even have a chance?"
I don't want to die
I don't want to kill
I don't want to kill
I don't want to die
We are all human
It's time to prove it
This is a plea for peace (world peace)
To the oppressors of the world (and to…)
To the leaders of nations,
Corporate profit takers,
To the every day citizen
Greed, envy, fear, hate- the competition has to stop!
When you see someone down - now is the time to pick 'em up
Set our difference aside and never look back!
I don't want to die
I don't want to kill
I don't want to kill
I don't want to die
We are all human
It's time to prove it
Isn't everybody tired of the fighting?
Isn't everybody tired of the killing?
Isn't everybody tired of the dying?
Hatred?
Violence?
Fighting?
Killing?
Dying?
*Excerpts from "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King
I don't want to die
I don't want to kill
I don't want to kill
I don't want to die
We are all human
It's time to prove it
You see it in the headlines and you feel so sick
As another life leaves this world - this world so full of hate - but short!
Short on compassion, short on humanity
Asking myself in vain, shaken by the shock…
"Do we even have a chance?"
I don't want to die
I don't want to kill
I don't want to kill
I don't want to die
We are all human
It's time to prove it
This is a plea for peace (world peace)
To the oppressors of the world (and to…)
To the leaders of nations,
Corporate profit takers,
To the every day citizen
Greed, envy, fear, hate- the competition has to stop!
When you see someone down - now is the time to pick 'em up
Set our difference aside and never look back!
I don't want to die
I don't want to kill
I don't want to kill
I don't want to die
We are all human
It's time to prove it
Isn't everybody tired of the fighting?
Isn't everybody tired of the killing?
Isn't everybody tired of the dying?
Hatred?
Violence?
Fighting?
Killing?
Dying?
*Excerpts from "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King
I don't want to die
I don't want to kill
I don't want to kill
I don't want to die
We are all human
It's time to prove it
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haha, wow. i said they seem very SIMILAR. not the SAME. Yeah, that may be true for a very generic definition of socialism and anarchy... but many anarchist intelletcuals ascribe themselves to "anarcho-syndacalism", which is as they call it a "voluntary socialism". This basically entails a collective with rules and what not, but with no central establishment. Kinda like the Kibbutzium in Israel, which are on the unfortunate decline due to the militarization of the country. But, either way my point is there are very many similarities between the two ideas, especially in ideals and values.
Peace! Fighting has to stop! Hate must cease to exist! Leave it all behind and spit on it! That's what this song means to me. I think the band had very strong feelings about the subject. Viva la anarchia!
This song is incredible. anti-flag does an awesome job getting the point across of how people are so jaded and that all this fighting and killing needs to stop. Stand up for america. 911 for Peace!! I love anti-flag and if you do as well, you need to hear this song.
In the middle of the song someone starts to speak, It sounds like Martin Luther King JR, I can get down what he says in the begining I just can't get anything past "Christians and Protestants" part.
ANti-FLag is the best band out there today. They show intelleigence and preach great things unto the world. They teach peace, love unity and non-violence. ANti-flag isnt anit america, its anti war, hate, and enslavement.
the part that Martin Luther King Jr. says partway through the song is taken from a famous speech of his, with most of the words shown here... //// "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" ///
for more on that speech go to mlht.ffii.org/demo/pacnaen.html
dont get me wrong, i love anti-flag and i love their views. but in a way, a-f is becomming a little too trendy. i still think this song is amazing tho.
Peace, Love and Unity!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
This Song is Kick Ass I love How There Straight To The Point and not hiding ther meanings with there help we can win this nation back!!
-=Strive For Anarchy=-
This Song is Kick Ass I love How There Straight To The Point and not hiding ther meanings with there help we can win this nation back!!
-=Strive For Anarchy=-