btw this site is all about finding out the MEANINGS of the songs, nto bitch about them so get your priorities straight!
to me most rise against songs have double meanings, they usually have the political meaning while they also have the meaning that can realate to all of us, which is why rise against has such grate songs.
to me the first menaing of the song is of a girl who lost something and wants to get it back. and so shes not gonna just sit around and wait for it. instead shes gonna keep going and persitisng to get what she wants because she knows its comming.
the lins
"she got down on hands and knees, one ear against the ground,
holding her breath to hear something, anything at all
The dirt whispered, "Child, I'm coming home."
shows that she knows its comming btu she still has to keep going on.
the other meiang is the political side of it.
talkign about how the world is slowly but surely changing the world for themselves adn that they know that what they all worked for is comming but they cant jsut rest now they have to keep going in oreder to make it all worth while.
the lines
"echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores, where we
danced just to please the gods that only ask for more, so it goes"
is a possible reference to war becuase of the "echos of different shores where we dqanced to please the gods that only aks for more"
meaing they keep doing what the government wants them to but it never ends what they want.
this line
"but still we give ourselves to this
we can't spend our lives waiting to live"
is the most important line in the song becuase it bsicly tells you the story of the song and rise against. there not going to wait 4 someone else to fix the problems so they can live, but thier gonna do there best as well!
@R.A.Fan @R.A.Fan, I concur. I think all of Rise Against's songs are about war. Over the years, though, I have realized this theory is a bit flawed. But I digress.
@R.A.Fan @R.A.Fan, I concur. I think all of Rise Against's songs are about war. Over the years, though, I have realized this theory is a bit flawed. But I digress.
This song (specifically, I imagine) is about war, though. In the first verse, the speaker (in my mind, she's a girl or woman) wants to return to her lover (former? Maybe). Her lover is overseas in some war. I always picture one of the World Wars. But Rise Against (when they discuss war in their song) would probably mean Afghanistan or Iraq or any American war...
This song (specifically, I imagine) is about war, though. In the first verse, the speaker (in my mind, she's a girl or woman) wants to return to her lover (former? Maybe). Her lover is overseas in some war. I always picture one of the World Wars. But Rise Against (when they discuss war in their song) would probably mean Afghanistan or Iraq or any American war fought like World War II, Vietnam, etc. I doubt they would be referencing World War I because it's too far gone in the past.
That's why at the end of the song, she's leaning her ear towards the ground and hears: "Child, I'm coming home". It means the soldier (her lover or former lover) is returning home.
btw this site is all about finding out the MEANINGS of the songs, nto bitch about them so get your priorities straight!
to me most rise against songs have double meanings, they usually have the political meaning while they also have the meaning that can realate to all of us, which is why rise against has such grate songs.
to me the first menaing of the song is of a girl who lost something and wants to get it back. and so shes not gonna just sit around and wait for it. instead shes gonna keep going and persitisng to get what she wants because she knows its comming.
the lins "she got down on hands and knees, one ear against the ground, holding her breath to hear something, anything at all
The dirt whispered, "Child, I'm coming home."
shows that she knows its comming btu she still has to keep going on.
the other meiang is the political side of it. talkign about how the world is slowly but surely changing the world for themselves adn that they know that what they all worked for is comming but they cant jsut rest now they have to keep going in oreder to make it all worth while.
the lines "echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores, where we danced just to please the gods that only ask for more, so it goes"
is a possible reference to war becuase of the "echos of different shores where we dqanced to please the gods that only aks for more"
meaing they keep doing what the government wants them to but it never ends what they want.
this line "but still we give ourselves to this we can't spend our lives waiting to live"
is the most important line in the song becuase it bsicly tells you the story of the song and rise against. there not going to wait 4 someone else to fix the problems so they can live, but thier gonna do there best as well!
please read this is a bitch of a post lol
very well said mate :)
very well said mate :)
@R.A.Fan @R.A.Fan, I concur. I think all of Rise Against's songs are about war. Over the years, though, I have realized this theory is a bit flawed. But I digress.
@R.A.Fan @R.A.Fan, I concur. I think all of Rise Against's songs are about war. Over the years, though, I have realized this theory is a bit flawed. But I digress.
This song (specifically, I imagine) is about war, though. In the first verse, the speaker (in my mind, she's a girl or woman) wants to return to her lover (former? Maybe). Her lover is overseas in some war. I always picture one of the World Wars. But Rise Against (when they discuss war in their song) would probably mean Afghanistan or Iraq or any American war...
This song (specifically, I imagine) is about war, though. In the first verse, the speaker (in my mind, she's a girl or woman) wants to return to her lover (former? Maybe). Her lover is overseas in some war. I always picture one of the World Wars. But Rise Against (when they discuss war in their song) would probably mean Afghanistan or Iraq or any American war fought like World War II, Vietnam, etc. I doubt they would be referencing World War I because it's too far gone in the past.
That's why at the end of the song, she's leaning her ear towards the ground and hears: "Child, I'm coming home". It means the soldier (her lover or former lover) is returning home.