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Rise Against – Make It Stop (September's Children) Lyrics 12 years ago
although i believe the song was inspired by the suicides i think the song is about everyone who doesn't fit into society's perfect little picture. it exposes all the reasons people get picked on an labeled an outcast not just being gay.

Bang bang from the closet walls,
The schoolhouse halls,
The shotgun's loaded.
Push me and I'll push back.
I'm done asking, I demand.

From a nation under God,
I feel it's love like a cattle prod.
Born free, but still they hate.
Born me, no I can't change.

i think you can intrepid that to mean just about anything, someone who's gay. someone who likes science(or learning period) someone who's shyer then everyone else. someone who lives with some type of learning disorder. whatever it's not there fault there like that an yet they will be picked on more then the average person. an worse most people will target them not realizing or caring that there words hurt till it's to late an even then most of the time they still won't hold themselves responsible or see that they played a major part in it happening.

The cold river washed him away,
But how could we forget.
The gatherings hold candles
But not their tongues.

i think it's a lot deeper then just a gay issue what do you think

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Rise Against – Make It Stop (September's Children) Lyrics 12 years ago
i think it means that most people who commit suicide and Murder due to bullying have it build up over time and the last few years are the worst of the worst

It's always darkest just before the dawn.
So stay awake with me, let's prove them wrong.

so if it going to happen it's mostly likely going to happen in high school an alto of the times it happens right before they get out an would be free of alto of the torture they Indore

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