Fall On Proverb

this song is realli hott... i finally got it, cuz i heard the planes mistaken for stars cover. and was like hmmmmm then sum1 told me this band did it. but i like this one better

Best Unbroken Song ever. Soundtrack to my life. Every single word feels so damn right to me. damnit, i love this one.

It's a little silly to ask what songs like this mean. It's a hardcore song from the mid-90s, which means it's about straight edge, veganism, friends stabbing friends in the back, or the darkness inside. I'd call this one "the darkness inside." We have an image of the speaker pleading... but pleading for what? Forgiveness? But wait a minute. What's this? "That's right, I just stopped what I didn't start." "That's right" sounds unmistakably defiant. "I stopped what I didn't start. What are you gonna do about it?"
"I`d give anything just to forget / A smile so worthwhile / But you can only rent it." What's this? It kind of seems like nonsense, and really it is because whoever wrote this song (Probably Dave Claiborn, I guess), just had to do something to match the awesome of these guitar parts, so it was just like, "How about some loosely connected sentiments of conflict and sadness? Hell yeah!" And there you have Unbroken. This is a great band and a great song, but I don't think the lyrics necessarily add up to something profound. I think we can appreciate them as fragments of something we can relate to, even if we can't quite make complete sense of them without making some big leaps of faith that these fine fellas from Chula Vista are the great philosophers of our time. They were some talented young lads who give us some lines to latch onto and feel good about our community and/or wallow in our sadness (both important functions). So, what does "Fall on Proverb" mean? I'd say it means what I think all good hardcore means: we're all in this together. There's nothing more we could ask for, and we'll rarely get anything more than that.