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Your empty walls
Your empty walls
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Don't
You see
From behind those empty walls
Those empty walls
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Don't
You see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be
Left behind those empty walls
Don't
You see
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
The walls
From behind those empty walls
I left you
yesterday before
you killed my family
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be, left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those fucking walls
From behind those goddamn walls
Those walls
Those walls
Your empty walls
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Don't
You see
From behind those empty walls
Those empty walls
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Don't
You see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be
Left behind those empty walls
Don't
You see
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
The walls
From behind those empty walls
I left you
yesterday before
you killed my family
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be, left behind those empty walls
Told you
To see
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those fucking walls
From behind those goddamn walls
Those walls
Those walls
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I would add that window as an empty wall is that the window and hence "empty walls" is a metaphor for TV/the media (and yes, the censorship of the coffins - as well as the attitude of the vast majority of the media in the early years of the Iraq war, which was very jingoistic).
Why an "empty" wall? A wall is something that separates. As elite89 pointed out, in the video, the children are behind the window, something that could easily be the definition of an "empty wall". A window separates physically, but not visually. So once you've convinced an audience that exchanging the "confines of their minds" (not having to think too much or find things out first hand) for an "empty wall" (getting information and others' thoughts on TV - which is easier but also allows much more information to reach the audience) all that's left is to make sure what's behind the empty wall isn't something you don't want your audience to see (for example: the censorship of the coffins of US soldiers killed in Iraq being offloaded back home).
"Those empty walls
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today"
These lines refer to the censor (aka the Bush Administration & co.) persuading its audience to basically "not think" and just accept what's being put onto the empty wall of a TV screen.
Before you deny me, think about it. Bodies burning, chocking from intoxication, no coffins, I (Jew) loved you (Germany) before you killed my family. It fits.
0:22 it's the Twin towers
1:04 its the start of the war in the middle east
2:00 it's pulling down Saddam's Husseins statue
2:10 it's kinda self explanatory
2:26 it's unfair inprisonment of unfortunates
2:33 a Muslim who got tortures by the U.S, even though there was no edvidence linking him to Al Qaeda
3:05 is a car bomb.
To sum up his overall agenda of this video he is saying that the US handled the war like "kids"
" Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication" Is abt how Armenian's suffered
"I loved you
yesterday before
you killed my family"
Its bcz Before the Armenian Genocide Armenian's and turks were frndz but the turks betrayed us ( Armenians ) and tried to eleminate us from the world by not leaving any Armenian living on earth but they failed.
BTW Serj Tankian is Armenian and us Armenian's have been effected alot by the Armenian genocide and always think abt it and remember it and we are filled with anger and sadness bcz of it and want the turks to give us back what they took from armenian lands, so sserj tankian wrote this song to express abt his anger . ( And if u know abt the Armenian genocide and reread the lyrics u wld see that I’m write )