Audience Of One Lyrics

Lyric discussion by tw15ted 

Cover art for Audience Of One lyrics by Rise Against

These are just basic thoughts and opinions Audience of One...The one being George W Bush.

"As we etched them with our fingers In years of wet cement" -The election of George W Bush

"We cruised along at half speed But then we shifted gears" -Everything was fine for awhile the shit started to go down

"We ran like vampires from a thousand burning sons But even then we should have stayed" -Those who voted for him decided they made a huge mistake. They are rethinking it and they know its too late.

The next verse Im still thinking about.

"I brought down the sky for you but all you did was shrug You gave my emptiness a name" -I think its basically the fact that a soldier may have killed someone and was expecting praise maybe afterwards but all he felt was emptiness,depression, and regret.

"We’re all ok, until the day we’re not The surface shines, while the inside rots We raced the sunset and we almost won We slammed the brakes, but the wheels went on" -I think it means We act like it was all okay when we know for a fact that it isnt. We may live a perfectly normal life when on the inside we're in pain. We thought we stopped the chaos when we know its still happening.

Just an opinion.

i was thinking almost the same exact thing :)

but the part when he says, "i brought down the sky for you, but all you did was shrug" i think its about how much people trusted him, and he screwed everything up. and he didnt care about how everyone felt afterwards

" we're all ok, until the day we're not The suface shines, while the inside rots We raced the sunset, and we almost won We slammed the breaks, but the wheels went on"

i think he's talking about how people thought he was going to help...

You nailed it tw15ted. Though a powerful song like this can be open to many interpretations (the relationship theme being one of the most common), I have no doubt they had politics in their minds when they wrote this one.

Just watch the video closely and you'll notice the little boy with big ears (W.) playing with soldiers surrounded by secret service agents. Could it be a little less self explanatory? Good job.