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Woke up to a brand new skyline
We licked our wounds and mourn the dead
Swallow the story hook and sinker
Is that what we meant when we said
That we never would forget?
Are we fools and cowards all
To let them cover up their lies?
Cause we all watched the buildings fall
Watched the scales fall from our eyes
A fire burns beneath Manhattan
Still we breathe with broken lungs
We act like none of this matters
Is that what we meant When we said
That we'd sing what must be sung?
Are we fools and cowards all
To let them cover up their lies?
Cause we all watched the buildings fall
Watched the scales fall from our eyes
We want answers
Scream from the roofs
We want justice
We want the truth
We licked our wounds and mourn the dead
Swallow the story hook and sinker
Is that what we meant when we said
That we never would forget?
Are we fools and cowards all
To let them cover up their lies?
Cause we all watched the buildings fall
Watched the scales fall from our eyes
A fire burns beneath Manhattan
Still we breathe with broken lungs
We act like none of this matters
Is that what we meant When we said
That we'd sing what must be sung?
Are we fools and cowards all
To let them cover up their lies?
Cause we all watched the buildings fall
Watched the scales fall from our eyes
We want answers
Scream from the roofs
We want justice
We want the truth
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Find me one engineer or metallurgist who says that the jet fuel couldn't have heated the steel to a point at which its yield strength lowered, causing it to deform plasticly and making the floors above it collapse on top of it, subsequently taking down the whole building. Find just one. Seriously, the people who say 9-11 is a conspiracy are completely unqualified and speaking BS. It's essentially the equivalent of your pastor telling you cancer isn't real. One source. Please, one credible, published source...oh yeah there are none. Stop buying into the crazy America.
I really much preferred thinking this song was about us invading Iraq on the still rolling momentum of us seeking revenge for 9-11. That seems far less crazy, and possibly a great topic for a song. This is what I will tell myself every time I listen to this song. Because 9-11 conspiracy is retarded. And I refuse to accept that Thrice is retarded.
Even Osama Bin Laden released a video tape in the days after the attacks saying in his experience as a CIVIL ENGINEER (he can design skyscrapers, bridges, etc!) he believed the floors above the impact would fall, but not those below. He was plesently surprised at his success when a whole building fell down, then the next. Search it bro.
Woke up to a brand new skyline
(The towers are no longer there)
We licked our wounds and mourn the dead
(People did what they could to recover from this shocking event)
Swallow the story hook and sinker
(This should be obvious. People believed and still believe the official story. It also important to note that this line becomes extremely ambiguous if we are to think that this song is not about 9/11truth)
Is that what we meant when we said
That we never would forget?
(The slogan of 9/11 is never forget, yet mention 9/11truth to anybody and they immediately dismiss the conversation because "it's been 10 years" or "it's over now." Also, when one claims they will never forget something, it is implied that they will continue to think about and investigate it.)
Are we fools and cowards all
To let them cover up their lies?
(Again, should be obvious, and has no application without the 9/11truth meaning. Disbelievers are ignorant, naive, and afraid of the consequences such a theory)
Cause we all watched the buildings fall
(Essentially all Americans have seen this happen)
Watched the scales fall from our eyes
(and now the number of American's opening up to the truth is increasing, and the majority of foreigners
have dismissed the Al-Qaeda, fire-based collapse theory since Sept. 12th, 2001)
A fire burns beneath Manhattan
(Not only did numerous individuals, such as firefighters, rescue workers, Gov. Pataki and Guiliani, and many others report molten metal underground and around Ground Zero, but NASA thermal imaging of the area showed that the temps under Ground Zero remained extremely high for weeks)
Still we breathe with broken lungs
(For a very long time after the 11th, the toxins and dust were still in the air, and have caused inumerable problems with the respiratory systems of first responders and others)
We act like none of this matters
(Just as those on here openly deny 9/11truth for absolutely no good reason, and others state, "It happened 10 years ago," and building 7 was only shown falling once on the mainstream media since 9/11.)
Is that what we meant When we said
That we'd sing what must be sung?
(We are not singing what must be sung because it is the hard truths that people do not want to hear that they need to hear the most)
Are we fools and cowards all
To let them cover up their lies?
Cause we all watched the buildings fall
Watched the scales fall from our eyes
(see the earlier chorus)
We want answers
Scream from the roofs
We want justice
We want the truth
(If this is not a scream of frustration at naysayers and the sad excuses of debunking and answering the questions the countless thousands of architects, engineers, rescue workers, family members of those that died in the attakcs, and others,and a declaration of 9/11 truth, then I have absolutely no idea what it could be).
I have shown that this song's lyrical content loses continuity and meaning if a "it's about 9/11" theory is proposed, but it is regained if we realize it is about the suspicion and denial of the official story. If anybody else wishes to still think this song is not about 9/11truth, then I think you have the extremely daunting task ahead of proving such. This song is very obvious, and the fact that I had to point this out shows the passive, ignorant, and naive mentality of Americans. Three steel and concrete buildings collapsed "due to fire" that day, and not one steel structure building has fallen due to fires before or since, and this is including steel-core skyscrapers that were fully engulfed in flame for far more than a couple of hours. If the Pentagon was hit by a plane, how did it leave such a small hole, and there was never a seat, wing, engine, or any other part of a plane found there? I will stop here, otherwise I will end up crashing songmeanings' servers with the amount of information that can be presented to explain 9/11. People really need to start researching, learning, and using critical thinking, instead of just dismissing like the good little complicit slaves they are.
9/11 truth, which is usually referred to as a conspiracy theory is a conspiracy, while the official story is a conspiracy theory. This distinction is made because the official story claims that a group of evil dark-skinned people that believe in a different God came together and performed this attack because they hate your freedom. THis is a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy theory purports that a group of people secretly planned and performed an action, and the theory part demonstrates that it is an idea with hardly any evidence behind it. First, the evil dark-skinned people are difficult to even understand or research due to the ambiguous nature of Al-Qaeda. THere is more information on the CIA's Al-Qaeda than the middle Eastern group we are told exists. Second, Usama Bin Laden is not a religious fanatic. He is an activist that disagrees with the economic structure that enslaves the world (IMF, World Bank, WTO,, etc) and the Israeli-American Empire. If you read interviews with him, you will understand this as well. Next, Bin Laden and the others purported to be involved, do not hate your freedom, as stated previously, they are fighting for freedom. Look at the evidence. Did Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Iraq, or any other Middle Eastern entity or connection touch your freedom? No, the U.S. passed the Patriot Act and have gone through other measures to reduce your rights. There is no evidence to support this theory. Bin Laden himself denied any involvement in the attacks just after 9/11 and mentioned the suspicious nature of the official story. Of course, he took complete responsibility and even bragged about the attacks later on. However, this was after the rest of the world had reported that he had died, and the video he did this in showed him to have gained a bunch of weight, changed skin color, hair and beard color, extremely healthy, and he had switched his dominant hand. Of course a man woth renal failure would become very healthy, change hair colors, switch dominant hands, and brag and admit to an act that is entirely antithetical to the beliefs and actions of his entire life. Okay, now I'm done giving you information. Research it for yourself.
P.S. to those that think "9/11 conspiracy theories have been debunked" need to look at the debunkers and their manner of debunking, as well as the info they present, and the credibility of their experiments. You should also research 9/11 conspiracies. THe best thing to do would be to check out Philosopher David Ray Griffin's "Debunking Debunking 9/11." It is hilarious that people also claim that the debunking was done by credible individuals in a credible manner. If this is true, then why is there a group of several thousand architects and engineers that denies the official story? Why are there more scientists, engineers, architects, and rescue workers that believe the official story is B.S. than that agree with it?
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Ironically enough I post this comment on the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
But anyway I only wanted to mention an interesting tidbit I found-
The part that says 'scales fall from our eyes' comes directly from the book of Acts, chapter 9, in the Bible, when Jesus appears to Saul on the road to Damascus. Saul is blinded by Jesus' light. When later he regains his vision, it is described as 'something like scales fell from Saul's eyes'.
Something I stumbled across. Certainly no coincidence.
It goes deeper, of course. This is a pattern that can be seen throughout human history; for thousands of years governments and churches have controlled the masses with similar tactics.
It's bullshit, plain and simple. We don't know everything about what happened that day, and we never will because of the millions of people indirectly involved, the extreme complexity of the events, the close connections with national security, and the right to privacy for the victims' families, but of what we DO know, there is nothing to even remotely suggest that anything other than the "official story" happened. ALL of the evidence points toward it, ALL of the points in "Loose Change" have been debunked as much as is scientifically possible without rebuilding the damn things and crashing another pair of planes into them.
Dustin is an incredibly intelligent, well-read, and gifted lyricist, but he's so far off the mark on this one, and it disappoints me.
We watched the scales fall from our eyes - after denying that the terror attacks of the 1990s were part of an organized group of religious zealots, the West was forced to acknowledge on the 11th of September that we faced an insidious, cunning foe, who sought our death and cared not a bit about collateral damage, even the deaths of their fellow Muslims.
Instead we swallowed that theirs is a religion of peace, never mind the attacks of 7/7 in England, the attacks on subways in Spain, the failed bombing on Christmas Day of 2009. Disregard the Talban's subjugation of women, or Saddam's use of chemical weapons on the Kurds throughout the 1990s.
I'm not submitting this as the be-all, end-all interpretation of this song, but so long as people are so willing to maintain that this song is based on a Judeo-Christian, neo-con conspiracy theory, I don't see what would stop someone from believing this song is based on an anti-West, anti-American conspiracy of equal scope and danger.