Lyrics for Audrey, Start The Revolution! as interpreted by ADimeADexter

Audrey, Start The Revolution! Lyrics
Maybe tonight we'll get back together
Sound the alarms and break all the levers
These streets are ours
Our anthem rings
You'd know the truth if these walls could sing

Amateur youth, sling down those signs
Gather the masses, friends of mine
I've got your back if you've got my hand
This isn't over, it just began

If this isn't love
(This isn't love)
This is the closest I've ever been
Do you think we have a chance tonight
As streetlights sing on Audrey's song? (x2)

Remind your parents we're tomorrow
Lead with morals and we'll follow
When they wake up they'll see
That youth fades and glory days deceive

What are you waiting for?
Let's move on this
Time is of essence, like your kiss
So say you're in with cards down and guns drawn
This is it

If this isn't love
(This isn't love)
This is the closest I've ever been
Do you think we have a chance tonight
As streetlights sing on Audrey's song? (x2)

And now it stops at this
We could take it all, if only we would risk
You can be what you can conceive
Red letters kill your disbelief

We all make mistakes sometimes
We all have failed where we stand tonight
Look past, learn, and move on
We're all here
You're not the only one

If this isn't love
(This isn't love)
This is the closest I've ever been
Do you think we have a chance tonight
As streetlights sing on Audrey's song? (x5)

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IAppreciateJesse
01-23-2005

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so good

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New Year's Project
02-22-2005

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great song. anberlin's new album rocks hard. their first one was really good, but this one might even be better. this is definately my personal favorite song on the cd, although "a day late" is a close, close second. Great sogn about a a guy who needs a girl to take a chance. Seems its always that way with us guys, we're always ready to dive in head first and the girl is merely tip toeing into it. tell her to take a chance, take a leap of faith and you'll be right there to catch her.

God Bless.

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sx edge
02-25-2005

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I love this song.
It always makes me wanna dance.

I agree that it's about a guy jsut wanting the girl to take a chance on him & jsut go all in for him.

"So say you’re in
With cards down and guns drawn; this is it! "
I love that part

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sx edge
02-25-2005

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I love this song.
It always makes me wanna dance.

I agree that it's about a guy jsut wanting the girl to take a chance on him & jsut go all in for him.

"So say you’re in
With cards down and guns drawn; this is it! "
I love that part

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Cetlas
06-15-2005

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Any connection to the Moulin Rouge? I could be pulling crap outta air here-- but the original writer of their play "Spectacular spectacular" was the argentinian named Audrey. then Christian took over writing and assumed the title "Voice of the revolution". Sounds alot like what could intertwine the lyrical base of the chorus and verses... they are different, but blend together. Alot like Audreys song in the movie "El tango de roxanne".

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amersami32
06-17-2005

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Wow. Now that you mention that connection to Moulin Rouge, it does make sense. I wonder. I guess we'll never know.

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emo_strikes_back
07-27-2005

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I never thought about the moulin rouge connection, that's really cool! This song is so awesome, The first time I listented to it, it seemed almost like the chorus didn't fit, because the first two verses almost make me think of a riot where as the chorus talks about love and stuff. It's really cool though, awesome song!

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emo_strikes_back
07-27-2005

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I never thought about the moulin rouge connection, that's really cool! This song is so awesome, The first time I listented to it, it seemed almost like the chorus didn't fit, because the first two verses almost make me think of a riot where as the chorus talks about love and stuff. It's really cool though, awesome song!

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tragedy__killsx
08-30-2005

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yeah now that you tie it all together like that it makes senses maybe thats where they got the inspiration

but its any amazing song anyways..makes me think i wanna get back with my ex

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I Love J.T.K.
05-07-2006

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Awesome song for love, rioting or dancing, very cool, gotta love Anberlin =D

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black winged angel
04-01-2007

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This is the song for me and my secret love. We're in love, very plainly so, but can't be together because we both need to have the significant others we have in order to keep the peace between our social groups, and this is the only thing that I've got of his that's totally mine.

There are so many quotes we use back and forth as little double entendres to show that we still love each other:
You’d know the truth if these walls could sing.

Time is of essence like your kiss.

So say you’re in
With cards down and guns drawn; this is it!

We’re all here; you’re not the only one.

and very obviously the chorus.

Such a good song. iTunes says I've played it over a thousand times, and I still repeat it for hours on end.

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toothandnail
05-02-2007

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As far as the Moulin Rouge connection goes, its an interesting theory but knowing that Stephen Christian is a huge Audrey Hepburn fan I think thats where the connection is. Audrey's song could have something to do with when she sings Moon River from the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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katiekeetch
08-22-2007

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I think the Audrey Hepburn connection is appropriate... i too am a HUGE Audrey Hepburn fan and to me Audrey, Start the Revolution is about youth telling their parents to lead them righteously... Audrey Hepburn did a lot of work with Unicef and cared about children a great deal so her revolution may be to raise children properly.

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Halissa
08-30-2007

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'Amateur youth, sling down those signs
Gather the masses, friends of mine
I've got your back if you've got my hand
This isn't over, it just began'

'We all fail, but we stand tonight'

These lyrics make me think of the time just before plunging into a battle (not with guns, but with words and the truth) beside his love (possibly whoever Audrey is). It sounds like a romance blossoming just as the revolution is about to begin, with the youth fighting for what they believe. I wonder why it's always the youth, or the students, that start revolutions. Always so idealistic and brave, fighting for a better world. *shrug*

I'm not entirely sure why, but that's the impression I got.

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SongWriter13424
08-31-2007

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I love this song's metaphor of almost a battle or a revolution, with the girl he loves at his side. It might be a way of saying now that he's got her by his side, he's pumped to take on the world. These lyrics relly are a rush of adrenaline.

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theyell4
09-18-2007

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I may be totally out with this, but when I listen to it, it sounds like a rally call to young Christians out there to get their act together and pro-actively shine like lights in todays world.

"Our anthem rings, You'd know the truth if these walls could sing" - talking about the Gospel here? and rocks crying out when we dont? (Luke 19:40)

"Amateur youth, sling down those signs,
Gather the masses, friends of mine,
I've got your back if you've got my hand,
This isn't over, it just began" - feels to me like he's saying like were just young and we're amateurs but lets get together, all of us, and lets go cos its just begun, we're in it together and we need as many people as we can

"Remind your parents we're tomorrow
Lead with morals and we'll follow" - we're the future, and we got lead with a good example, Christ's example

"What are you waiting for?"
"Time is of essence"
"This is it"
- all these speak of the urgency to get out there in the world and show Christ to our friends so they don't miss out

"We could take it all, if only we would risk,
You can be what you can conceive,
Red letters kill your disbelief" - red letters perhaps a reference to Red Letter Bibles, saying be encouraged and strengthened by Jesus' words and dont doubt what He can do thru us


"We all make mistakes sometimes
We all have failed where we stand tonight
Look past, learn, and move on
We're all here
You're not the only one" - saying once again we're in it together, we all get our walk with Christ wrong, but get up, learn and move on when we fall down

i'm not sure how Audrey fits into all of this but meh.. :)

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theyell4
09-18-2007

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a bit of a long shot but Audrey could be Audrey of the band Selah who released a song called All My Praises
http://music.yahoo.com/Selah/All-My-Praise-Jr-McNeely-Mix/lyrics/8402288

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YourHeroesAreDead
12-06-2007

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This song is amazing! So upbeat makes me wanna dance.

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ny1989
05-20-2008

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Stephen says Audrey is Audrey Hepburn.

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Liam137
05-14-2009

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I think that this song is referring to Audrey Hepburn's work towards looking after children and Stephen Christian is telling the listeners that the children have hope that someone will/have come to help them, and this is the childrens way of thanking Audrey for ehat she has done

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megznz
06-07-2009

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'that youth fades and glory days deceive'

sums it all up really! A realisation song.

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