A Gentlemen's Coup Lyrics

Lyric discussion by zer00rdie 

Cover art for A Gentlemen's Coup lyrics by Rise Against

When I listen to this song I imagine a post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. Civilization as we know it is gone; no more government, no more elite, no more poor people. Everything is fair. It's the people's world now, and everyone has equal control. They feel they should have burnt down the way of society earlier, so that everyone could live like that without having to go through a nuclear war.

I am not trashing your opinion but more of stimulating a discussion but do you really think society will function better without governments and without order? If we did live in a post apocalyptic world do you really think that people would live fairly? To me because of capitalism the world will never function properly again. The world wouldn't change it would stay the same, people fighting to have the most of everything because that is what man has become, greedy.

I think that both if you guys are missing a couple greater points. For Zero, its this. We don't have control, how do you expect to have equal control? The world controls us. Not the other way around.

Indie, if we are so flawed we need government, then the government is going to be so flawed that it will destroy itself (just like we would destroy ourselves without). So we destroy ourselves either way, when the next revolution comes. Government will not be able to solve the problems we face, people thinking differently though just might be able bring us...