Bring 'Em Back Alive Lyrics

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Cover art for Bring 'Em Back Alive lyrics by Audioslave

i believe that you're most connected to a song when its all you can listen to, and at this point in my life that's how it is. i adore this song.

for me, moving past the religious references and delving even deeper:

this song dictates the acceptance of your personal tragedy and leaving shame to get into where you stand.

i, i am a virus i, i live in silence

like a leech, one who only would cause harm and damage to prolong existence in the most corrupt way. but he sings, i live in silence. these two lyrics together are different from simply saying, i hurt everything i know, im just corrupt--there's a sense of sadness and loneliness in him, and that there was once something beautiful. if he lives in silence, why is this song loud and screaming? this is the screams of torment inside his mind.

and a virus is nothing without a host, a virus feeds in a corrupt manner upon something else, someone-- and he lives in silence. its the tragedy of isolation, its the tragedy of hating the characteristics of your existence-- and that once you tried to reach the sky, and was so close.

"Its the tragedy of hating the characteristics of your existence"

Dude that hit me square in the guts, just like this song!