If You Fear Dying Lyrics

Lyric discussion by GaiusJulius 

Cover art for If You Fear Dying lyrics by One Day As A Lion

"..time is coming rising like the dawn of a red sun If you fear dying then you're already dead"

He's basically asking the people of the world to resist and to have courage. If he's really being nasty he could be insinuating that America's time will come, through things like the suffering the US endured in WWII by the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. The red sun present on their flag is often used to refer to them.

The chorus is the only "throwaway" thing in this song. There's nothing wrong with it; it's just plain and doesn't really hype the rest of the song like the rest of the lyrics.

"rising like the dawn of the red sun"

Red sun may be in reference to Puka Inti which in Quecha (a Native American language) means "Red Sun." Puka Inti is a very small Maoist guerrilla organization known for bombing several government buildings in Ecuador during the 1980s.