I believe this song is about how our world is destroying childrens innocence through TV, violent games, and generally sending them the wrong message.
Hence the lines:
"What they stole was innocence" - loss of innocence.
"The image of the world reflects itself in the childs eye" - Children see the world through technology, and dont know for themselves what is right or wrong.
"We eat our own to stay alive". This is the most contraversal statement, yet its actually quite simple. The people who ruin the innocence of children dont care about what they are doing as long as they get a paycheck at the end of the week.
-Zest
Why would Rise Against, a rock band, write about how media such as video games corrupt kids? The whole "video games make kids violent" has gone hand-in-hand with the "rock 'n' roll makes kids violent argument over the years.
Why would Rise Against, a rock band, write about how media such as video games corrupt kids? The whole "video games make kids violent" has gone hand-in-hand with the "rock 'n' roll makes kids violent argument over the years.
I believe this song is about how our world is destroying childrens innocence through TV, violent games, and generally sending them the wrong message. Hence the lines: "What they stole was innocence" - loss of innocence. "The image of the world reflects itself in the childs eye" - Children see the world through technology, and dont know for themselves what is right or wrong. "We eat our own to stay alive". This is the most contraversal statement, yet its actually quite simple. The people who ruin the innocence of children dont care about what they are doing as long as they get a paycheck at the end of the week. -Zest
Why would Rise Against, a rock band, write about how media such as video games corrupt kids? The whole "video games make kids violent" has gone hand-in-hand with the "rock 'n' roll makes kids violent argument over the years.
Why would Rise Against, a rock band, write about how media such as video games corrupt kids? The whole "video games make kids violent" has gone hand-in-hand with the "rock 'n' roll makes kids violent argument over the years.