I think that the song meanings a bit of both of your comments. The song encourages people to stand up to a world that will try to hold us down. And more importantely, stand true.
"We can no longer be indifferent.
Restore this dying world.
From misery we have turned away, ignite the past, let the bridges burn." - we can no longer be indifferent about this world, its hurting, and its up to all of us to restore what this world is suppose to be. Let the past go, its full of misery, but we cant let that tie us down. Let those bridges that tie us to a painful past burn, and also lets the bridges between us burn. Because even though we claim ourselves to be a world united, we are all kept apart by racism and violence. Burn the sorry excuses and half ass bridges that supposedly tie us all together so that we may truly become one as a people.
I think that the song meanings a bit of both of your comments. The song encourages people to stand up to a world that will try to hold us down. And more importantely, stand true.
"We can no longer be indifferent. Restore this dying world. From misery we have turned away, ignite the past, let the bridges burn." - we can no longer be indifferent about this world, its hurting, and its up to all of us to restore what this world is suppose to be. Let the past go, its full of misery, but we cant let that tie us down. Let those bridges that tie us to a painful past burn, and also lets the bridges between us burn. Because even though we claim ourselves to be a world united, we are all kept apart by racism and violence. Burn the sorry excuses and half ass bridges that supposedly tie us all together so that we may truly become one as a people.