Harakiri Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Ar1So 

Cover art for Harakiri lyrics by Serj Tankian

These song make me cry for what we as humans did to each other. I can hear that it's talking about the ww2 and bombing the japan. As you know Japan flag had a sun over it's red circle. "They Crowned the sun"

"We're the day birds Deciding to fly against the sky Within our dreams, we all wake up To kiss the ones who are born to die " This part is describing the US bombs that they are going to fly like birds

"We're the greying herds Hurting each other with our lives Within our dreams, we all wake up To kiss the ones who are born to die Born to die, born to die" And it's describing the japanese army which are famous for doing Hara-kiri with hitting US navy.

You can see "The blackbirds They fell in thousands from the sky" Blackbird is metaphor of bombs and they fell from sky.

Both of them ends with "Within our dreams, we all wake up To kiss the ones who are born to die Born to die, born to die" Wanna say that they have dreams and they are the same people.They (Japanese and Us army) are human they have dreams and they will die soon.

Those WW's just started for expensing our country "Our statues The soaring edifice of our times Detracted from the ways of the wise"

And in the end a generation will come and accept these faults as a big crime so God say when it will come. "The future will view all history as a crime So father, tell us when is time to rise"

Japanese people where hit by 2 atomic bomb and Serj believes that after the hit people who were died , became free like a bird.

Its just want to say that we should stop killing ourselves. We are human we all have a dream and we will die soon so be kind to each other.

(sorry if I have grammatical mistakes)

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