Anger Rising Lyrics
Boys standing at attention in the corner, his own
Dirt fight, scorpion crawling the wall
By the way Father, could you please beat me some more?
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?
Stretch aluminum foil cross the window at night
Mother crying, calling out up the stair
By the way Father, do you even care that I'm scared?
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?
Devil rising up inside him yet again
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?
By the way Father, created hell on my own
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?
Anger rising up inside him yet again
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?
Oh yeah, most definitely about a guy who beats his son, who grows up to be abusive, and his son as an adult is fucked up. Each verse is about the son and his problems, but the last is a bit lacking in detail.
In the second verse the mother crying could refer to the mother yelling at her husband to quit beating the boy, which is what I thought the first couple of times I heard this, or it could be the child laying in bed listening to his father abuse his mother. I now believe this to be truth for several reasons. During his childhood (verse 1), he vows not to be like his father and abuse his child. However, his anger as a child is now being vented on his wife, because he's pissed that his mother did nothing to stop his father from beating him ("Boy's standing at attention in the corner, [on] his own").
The third guy (generation three) is someone, possibly Jerry, messed up from his childhood experiences and possibly inflicting self abuse.
So, essentially, it's about these guy's whose anger management gets progressively better through each generation, but they still have some problems.
By the way, I don't think that this song is garbage, just a bit generic and less than what I expected.
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Jerry's openly admitted that his father came back a different person from Vietnam and unleashed his demons on the family. But through his music he seems to have forgiven the old man, and they live together on a ranch in Oklahoma I believe.
Jerry Cantrell is fuckin' awesome! "Anger Rising" is such a great song! I saw Jerry Cantrell back with Metallica and Days Of The New on the Re-Load tour; fuckin' great show!
great song, great artist, great new album :)
great song.does the beginning of it remind anyone else of alice in chains? wheres he doin the lil ooooohhhh part?lol.reminds me of alice in chains.i dunno maybe im fucked like that.but great song
@All4APrice That's the only part of the song that doesn't remind me of Alice in Chains, actually.
@All4APrice That's the only part of the song that doesn't remind me of Alice in Chains, actually.
I think it would remind people alot of Alice In Chains seeing as Jerry Cantrell was a member of AIC
kick ass song...its great.
this song kix major ass! even though i dont like his comments bout 7 dust when they were in concert!
Its ok dude. Jerry and Sevendust are pals again....I still think Sevendust blows tho.
Yes Sevendust does infact blow donkey sack! Jerry is fucking awesome. And if I ad the balls to do to my Les with what he did to it, DAMN!! Its an awesome guitar and an AWESOME SONG!! And Jerry Cantrell is rockin'!!