Yes, this song is clearly about 9/11 but I'm pretty sure the lungs being mentioned are not literally lungs. Anyone who listens to thrice a lot knows that they use lots of imagery and metaphors, and while the issue of the ground zero workers having health complications after 9/11 was unjust, I doubt thats what the song is about.
The first two lines are pretty clear, after 9/11, we, americans, were all very hurt. But the 3rd line gives the song away. We swallowed the story, hook and sinker. I think this is talking about how the Bush administration took advantage of the fear that America had right after 9/11 to sell us this completely outrageous story of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That was proven to be a completely false story, but in our fear, we handed our trust over to Pres. Bush, and americans came out as the suckers.
The line "is that what we meant when we said we never would forget" is talking about how we should never forget 9/11, but the way that we've acted as a response to 9/11, invading foreign countries, declaring pre-emptive war, this is all wrong, its a shame and it isnt how the people who died in 9/11 would have wanted to be redeemed for the great tragedy that has befallen them.
dustin is saying we are "fools and cowards" to let them (the american gov't) exploit our post 9/11 fear, and even after they have been caught red-handed for lying and sending our nation into an unecessary, multibillion dollar war, after it was all shown to be a lie, we just let them walk away. they are not held accountable.
@n0tfamus I think that explanation actually pretty much nails it, I get the exact same meaning of the song and it also fits very well to what Dustin said about it.
@n0tfamus I think that explanation actually pretty much nails it, I get the exact same meaning of the song and it also fits very well to what Dustin said about it.
Yes, this song is clearly about 9/11 but I'm pretty sure the lungs being mentioned are not literally lungs. Anyone who listens to thrice a lot knows that they use lots of imagery and metaphors, and while the issue of the ground zero workers having health complications after 9/11 was unjust, I doubt thats what the song is about.
The first two lines are pretty clear, after 9/11, we, americans, were all very hurt. But the 3rd line gives the song away. We swallowed the story, hook and sinker. I think this is talking about how the Bush administration took advantage of the fear that America had right after 9/11 to sell us this completely outrageous story of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That was proven to be a completely false story, but in our fear, we handed our trust over to Pres. Bush, and americans came out as the suckers.
The line "is that what we meant when we said we never would forget" is talking about how we should never forget 9/11, but the way that we've acted as a response to 9/11, invading foreign countries, declaring pre-emptive war, this is all wrong, its a shame and it isnt how the people who died in 9/11 would have wanted to be redeemed for the great tragedy that has befallen them.
dustin is saying we are "fools and cowards" to let them (the american gov't) exploit our post 9/11 fear, and even after they have been caught red-handed for lying and sending our nation into an unecessary, multibillion dollar war, after it was all shown to be a lie, we just let them walk away. they are not held accountable.
@n0tfamus I think that explanation actually pretty much nails it, I get the exact same meaning of the song and it also fits very well to what Dustin said about it.
@n0tfamus I think that explanation actually pretty much nails it, I get the exact same meaning of the song and it also fits very well to what Dustin said about it.