This song is about something I deal with on a regular basis. Society has blindly set up rules on how the public should conduct itself. Popular traditions include weddings, hip hop music, Hollywood etc.

Example:

Corporate 1:Let's get a bunch of guys that the Black and Latino community can look up to.

Corporate 2: They should be well dressed and intelligent right?

Corporate 1: No! We don't want another possibility of another Black President. We need the most ignorant black men there are to break out in this so called genre.

Corporate 2: How will anyone accept Hip Hop as a genre? I mean, just listen to its name: Hip Hop!

Corporate 1: The public will embrace Hip Hop because we have the money to make it mainstream. We definitely know that anything mainstream is treated like scientific law. After we're done, Hip Hop will be the only thing considered music while everything else will be just "noise". Do you know how popular Metallica was? Well, even a great musical act like them will be forgotten when we're through. The idea that we'll be selling is what everyone wants to hear. "All you have to do to be rich and famous is be a rapper". Do you know how well that will sit? The naive idiots will take into that like a cat diving for a mouse. After hearing over and over again that life is all about money, we will demoralize Blacks and Latinos.

That's one of the things I believe this song is about; how we're controlled into taking up morals and values that aren't truly ours, but "someone else's dream".


An easier example is Weddings. Girls grow up being TAUGHT that her wedding is the greatest moment of her life. If I was a girl or woman, this would offend me greatly. "So you're saying anything that I may ever do in life, no matter how successful, won't compare to the day I'm handed off to a man?" This is a way that girls are taught to:

"Stand in reflection of someone else's dream"

Tim usually always writes about his past or things that have happened to him. He has also said in an interview that As I Lay Dying is NOT christian metal. Everyone in the bad is christan but their songs are not meant to be about the bible or Jesus Christ.

Tim usually always writes about his past or things that have happened to him. He has also said in an interview that As I Lay Dying is NOT christian metal. Everyone in the bad is christan but their songs are not meant to be about the bible or Jesus Christ.

Tim usually always writes about his past or things that have happened to him. He has also said in an interview that As I Lay Dying is NOT christian metal. Everyone in the bad is christan but their songs are not meant to be about the bible or Jesus Christ.

To me, this is not even a song.