I'm not sure, but I think this song is a call to bullied suicidal kids to stay and fight. It reminds me of the "it gets better" campaign, which tries to stop gay kids from killing themselves in droves as teenagers.
Everything's fucked up. "tyranny exists shrink beneath the ingrown thorns forced to accept pledge allegiance to a flag" The order needs to be fixed "to have respect you must accept the world committing suicide".
So these kids, they're in a hostile environment "you must resist they want you dead". They crack, all the trauma hounds running to the road ("run to corrode"?) and getting splattered by cars. So some poor kid who's hounded and bullied to the point of ending his life, his suicide signifies nothing more than the rash act of an adolescent "helpless deaths ignored to be judged as juvenile". What do these kids say to condemn the flaws in the system? Nothing, they're fucking dead: "eternity keeps swallowing digested benefactors whose silence deafens anything"
Ogre appeals to the suicidal to stay and fight: "what's the point of giving up leaving won't change anything" "to push away all growth within puzzles me offers soul to nothing" In other words, live out your potential, grow strong and change the world around you, instead of quitting early and dumping your soul into the void.
Some live performances of the song have ogre singing through a hangman's noose, perhaps depicting the moment of contemplating eternity.
I'm not sure, but I think this song is a call to bullied suicidal kids to stay and fight. It reminds me of the "it gets better" campaign, which tries to stop gay kids from killing themselves in droves as teenagers.
Everything's fucked up. "tyranny exists shrink beneath the ingrown thorns forced to accept pledge allegiance to a flag" The order needs to be fixed "to have respect you must accept the world committing suicide".
So these kids, they're in a hostile environment "you must resist they want you dead". They crack, all the trauma hounds running to the road ("run to corrode"?) and getting splattered by cars. So some poor kid who's hounded and bullied to the point of ending his life, his suicide signifies nothing more than the rash act of an adolescent "helpless deaths ignored to be judged as juvenile". What do these kids say to condemn the flaws in the system? Nothing, they're fucking dead: "eternity keeps swallowing digested benefactors whose silence deafens anything"
Ogre appeals to the suicidal to stay and fight: "what's the point of giving up leaving won't change anything" "to push away all growth within puzzles me offers soul to nothing" In other words, live out your potential, grow strong and change the world around you, instead of quitting early and dumping your soul into the void.
Some live performances of the song have ogre singing through a hangman's noose, perhaps depicting the moment of contemplating eternity.