"You said it shouldn't be taken too seriously"
This is heaps similar to some of the stuff MacKaye has been quoted as saying about SxE, about how it was never meant to be a movement or anything and how it was just him singing about how he felt.
Ian Mackaye is no longer edge, he says that it was right for him as a youth but not as an adult. This explains the anger in the song.
Also at one of Chain's concerts the singer introduced this song by saying something like:
"There have been a lot of people who are straight-edge, but then as they grow older it means less and less to them. This song is called "True Til Death" something they were not!"
I reckon the song is about Ian MacKaye.
"You said it shouldn't be taken too seriously" This is heaps similar to some of the stuff MacKaye has been quoted as saying about SxE, about how it was never meant to be a movement or anything and how it was just him singing about how he felt.
Ian Mackaye is no longer edge, he says that it was right for him as a youth but not as an adult. This explains the anger in the song.
Also at one of Chain's concerts the singer introduced this song by saying something like: "There have been a lot of people who are straight-edge, but then as they grow older it means less and less to them. This song is called "True Til Death" something they were not!"
This fits in with the MacKaye theory.