This song is about being in prison. Period. You may have a personal interpretation that means something to you, and that's great, and I'm sure Ian Mackaye would have no problem with anyone having their own emotional (meaning, pertaining to emotions, not fucking "emo") viewpoint on it, but plain and simple, it's about being in prison. Feeling like you are outside the of society ("everybody's moving, everybody's moving...please don't leave me to remain," "I don't want the news, cause I don't wanna know," "sitting outside of town, everybody's always down"), and waiting to get back to it, hopefully not winding up there again ("and I won't make the same mistakes cause I know, I know how much time that wastes"). It's totally obvious if you look at the lyrics again.
By the way, I have never heard a more useless term than "emo." All genres are bullshit, generally, but that one is especially meaningless. All "emo" means is shitty, whiny, trust fund rock, which this definitely isn't. Is there any band, anywhere, that actually refers to themselves as emo? Didn't think so.
This song is about being in prison. Period. You may have a personal interpretation that means something to you, and that's great, and I'm sure Ian Mackaye would have no problem with anyone having their own emotional (meaning, pertaining to emotions, not fucking "emo") viewpoint on it, but plain and simple, it's about being in prison. Feeling like you are outside the of society ("everybody's moving, everybody's moving...please don't leave me to remain," "I don't want the news, cause I don't wanna know," "sitting outside of town, everybody's always down"), and waiting to get back to it, hopefully not winding up there again ("and I won't make the same mistakes cause I know, I know how much time that wastes"). It's totally obvious if you look at the lyrics again.
By the way, I have never heard a more useless term than "emo." All genres are bullshit, generally, but that one is especially meaningless. All "emo" means is shitty, whiny, trust fund rock, which this definitely isn't. Is there any band, anywhere, that actually refers to themselves as emo? Didn't think so.