| Rise Against – Architects Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I had no idea....But after looking up that song, it's hard to say that this song isn't a response to Against Me! It's just too coincidental. Thanks for your input! | |
| Rise Against – Help Is On The Way Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yep, the lyrics are "AXES in the attic." Thanks for that explanation, okaasan59. It makes so much more sense now! | |
| Rise Against – Architects Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The lyrics are supposed to be "ARE YOU out there on the front lines or at home keeping score?" It's written that way in the booklet, and it makes much more sense. That said, I'd say that this song is meant both for the older generation and the younger generation. For the older people, the song is questioning and challenging them--where has the rebellious spirit gone, the one that wanted to change the world and "set [it] on fire?" Do you guys still care? Or are you just going to sit back, sit at "home keeping score?" For the younger people, my generation, this song is a call to action! It's our turn now; let's step forward, change this world for the better, and be the "architect" of our own future. |
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| Rise Against – Make It Stop (September's Children) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'd say this song IS about bullying, but mostly about bullying people because of their sexual orientation. For sure the inspiration for this song came from the numerous suicides of gay teens last September. That phrase you pointed out, about the schoolhouse and guns could support the idea of bullying in general. But it also made me think of the death of...Lawrence King I think his name was. Lawrence King was a gay teen who was bullied and then shot by another classmate in 2008 for being who he was. |
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| Rise Against – The Dirt Whispered Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's kind of cool how people can look at this song and have totally different opinions on the meaning, but I do think this song is simply about how Tim feels about being on tour away from his family. "She got down on hands and knees, one ear against the ground, holding her breath to hear something. But the dirt made not a sound tonight." --> I never really saw this line as a metaphor. It always made me think of how pretty much only back in the olden days, you could put your ear to the dirt and hear if somebody was approaching from miles away. So the girl (I'm guessing that it is Tim's daughter) is listening, waiting to hear him come home. Yeah, I know that people don't do this nowadays, but whatever. That's what it made me think of. "Echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores where we dance just to please the gods, who only ask for more. And so it goes. But still we give ourselves to this; We can't spend our lives waiting to live." --> They're on tour, and they're playing for their fans (the gods), and of course we'd love it if they'd play more. But I don't think that he really regrets being a musician, because it's what he wants to do. So even though it's tough being away, he can't spend his "life waiting to live." "On cold nights, in a prayer for dawn the daylight isn't what she wants. The concrete calls my name again. I'm falling, through the cracks I slilp." --> Again, the first two lines are about his daughter waiting for him to come home. After all, later in the song he says, "I swear that I will be there before dawn, so be there I will." She doesn't want the daylight. She's just waiting for him to come home. And I think the rest of the song is pretty self-explanatory when put into that context. |
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