| Rise Against – Bridges Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The promises of change and revolution that have been unfulfilled have now become a source of guilt. | |
| Rise Against – People Live Here Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This guy knows | |
| Rise Against – Methadone Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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There are quite a few errors in these lyrics. "It's hard for me to love others because I'm never going to settle down. I am a revolutionary and I always will be. You're better off with somebody else" |
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| Rise Against – Tragedy + Time Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Couldn't have said it better myself | |
| Rise Against – Awake Too Long Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Like in "The Black Market" Tim is talking about himself. However in this song the message is slightly different. Here Tim talks about how he's been "awake too long" or how he has been aware of all the negative in the world and all the causes there are too fight for for far too long. He's tired of seeing all this negative in the world and because of the person he is, he will never be able to just sit idly by and let it happen. My favorite line in this song is "we threw swords in the ocean, wide and deep". It explains his situation perfectly, how out seems futile trying to fight the world. Like trying to harm the ocean by throwing swords at it. It makes you wonder if it's better to just fall asleep. . . to experience the bliss that is ignorance. |
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| Rise Against – The Black Market Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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It's not a breakup guys, lol This song is about Tim (and everyone else in RA I'm assuming). In this song he tells his fans that everything that he is fighting for and protesting against is starting to get to him. Before it was easy to talk about the negative things in the world but he's been doing it so long it's starting to make him feel weak (he talks about this again in awake too long). He will never stop writing music for us, but he wants us, his fans to all know that he needs our support to keep going. . . |
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| Rise Against – Architects Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is basically about the lack of "revolutionaries" left in the world. As such, the narrator questions whether this is the world that people have been waiting for, since nobody's rising up to change anything about it or if we're just sitting here waiting for a messiah. The narrator states that he's still fighting and begs his brethren to remember the fire that used to drive them, and DO SOMETHING. "Are you out there on the front lines, or at home taking score" Are you actively participating in making a difference or are you just watching. The narrator rhetorically criticizes modern "revolutionaries" and says they've all gone soft or were never there to being with and calls for new architects to appear. |
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| Rise Against – Broken Mirrors Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Rise Against isn't as Anarchist as everyone seems to single them out to be. True they call for societal change and often criticize the American government, but many songs are more about people themselves, rather than the force which governs them. This song, for example isn't about a revolution. It's about a man, late in his life, who is going through a mid-life crisis. For years, he's ignored what's going on around him as his "luck" or rather his youthful passion "ran out". With all the things that he simply lets happen, he can't even look at himself in the mirror anymore because he can't recognize the fight-for-nothing man he's become, and can't cope with the fact that he's going to die like that when he can still see reflections of the person he was before or wanted to be. The narrator states that the mirrors, despite showing you what you look like, they can't see "our hearts", meaning that reflecting on your past may reflect who you were, but that doesn't have to be who you ARE right now. You are free to change yourself and restart whenever you choose, and you don't have to let your past define you. |
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| Rise Against – Survivor Guilt Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is clearly about the unfair loss of life cause by "artificial wars", those being wars that are caused to make the rich - the weak people who don't even fight - richer. It's a criticism of how soldiers will give everything for a cause they don't even believe in, and yet, their country will still ask more of them. And it also criticizes those who easily believe in such causes, because until people speak out against this, it will continue happening. |
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| Rise Against – Prayer Of The Refugee Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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If you've ever read kite runner, this will much much more sense. This song is legitimately about a refugee speaking to his son after a migration (As stated by Tim himself) The refugee lashes out violently towards anyone that tries to help him achieve his ends because after leaving everything he had behind, believing in himself is all he has left, as everyone who's ever "helped" before has let him down. After being reduced to a humble laborer, the refugee works to change the world that he has become a part of - nail by nail. He then tells his son to do the same, and break the quiet that the previous generation needed to maintain to survive, and change the world for the better. |
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| Rise Against – Behind Closed Doors Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Chairs thrown and tables toppled, Hands armed with broken bottles, Standing no chance to win but, We're not runnin', we're not runnin'." In spite of a seemingly impossible challenge, "we" take arms and refuse to run from a cause. "We" is an idealist group, or rather the ideal itself - a cause and the people who believe in it. "There's a point I think we're missin'," Self-Explanatory; this ties the opening "not running" sequence to the rest of the song. "It's in the air we raise our fists in, In the smiles we cast each other, My sister, my brother. About the time we gave up hope and We never find these locks still open, Stumbling on stones unturned, The hurt we feel, we all have found." The narrator presents a dilemma in which the cause/ideal is constantly being beaten back and rejected (The people try every new path, but ultimately it ends in hurt), when the answer (or rather an alternative solution) is right in front of their faces. "The lines we've crossed in search of change, but all they see is treason" The group/ideal is simply calling for a change, yet the world views this idea as treason. "Although we have no obligation, to stay alive On broken backs we beg for mercy, we will survive (Break out) I won't be left here Behind closed doors." These are the defining lines in the song. Although "we" (the ideal, and by extension the people that believe in it) is just an ideal, and the world will go on as normal without it, the people who believe in it will fight until their dying breaths to keep that ideal alive. When the narrator shifts from "we" to "I" it implies that the narrator himself is the ideal, and the "we" are those who support him. When he says "I won't be left here behind closed doors", he means that the ideal will not and cannot be forgotten or hidden as long as there are people who believe in it. "Bonfires burn like beacons, Guiding the lost and weakened. Flames dance on crashing waves, Guiding ships who've gone a stray" Eventually, the cause will be lost to time, and people will lose their way (similar to the growing old concept in the song Architects), but bonfires (which I interpret as rallies or new younger believers in the ideal) will bring them back to their old beliefs and get them fighting again. "Time out, let's stop and think this through, We've all got better things to do, A talk in circles run in place, Answers inches from my face." To the narrator, the solution to his problem is right in front of his face. The cause that his people have been fighting for has gotten to the point where it's doing nothing but causing unnecessary hurt amongst it's believers. This suggests that sometimes it's better to think about what you're fighting for (and how), rather than just doing what your instincts tell you and get hurt every time. "Work smarter, not harder" is something my mother used to always tell me, and this seems to speak towards that concept. "Black eyes, broken fingers, Blood drips and I let it run down my lips and to my swollen gums When hope is non-existent, Our instincts all scream, "Run", We never turn our backs or even bite our tongue" In the end, the "I", the ideal, has been battered, bruised, and beaten, yet it's believers still fight for it. The "I" let's the blood from his metaphorical wounds drip to show the damage that's been done, and makes no attempt to hide it - as it's a symbol of the hardship it's willing to go through. In spite of all that, the "I" is still alive. But that brings us to the ultimate meaning of the song. People fight hard for what they believe in. They fight to the point where the ideal becomes lost in violence, hurt, negativity, and loss, yet it's people still fight for it - and are more than willing to die for it. But, in the end, people never think to find a better way to preach their message. Indeed, the point everyone's missing is in both the smiles cast, and the air around those who believe in the ideal. It's the ideal itself - it's alive. Even if it seems like the world has forgotten about it, as long as there's a "we" who can raise their fists, the ideal is alive. Don't fight for something, and then lose yourself in bringing that cause to fruition. You can't preach a gospel of peace if you've resorted to violence to get it across to people. |
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