I'm surprised no one's mentioned the last few lines -- they completely change the meaning of the song. The narrator keeps mentioning that he'll be leaving (presumably the country) soon. He hates the journalists because they don't really care or understand what happened. At the end, though, the chorus is used in a very different context:
"A world that loves it's irony must hate the protest singer... so I'll be leaving soon."
Leaving, not the country, but the WORLD. At the end of the song he decides to kill himself because he can't escape the memory of what he saw, and because the world seems completely blind to it.
@TheTANK Not even close. You see....protest singers do not travel with the news. He is writing this from the point of view of a journalist. The song itself is the protest (eg "protest singer").
It couldnt be an easier song to figure out.
@TheTANK Not even close. You see....protest singers do not travel with the news. He is writing this from the point of view of a journalist. The song itself is the protest (eg "protest singer").
It couldnt be an easier song to figure out.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the last few lines -- they completely change the meaning of the song. The narrator keeps mentioning that he'll be leaving (presumably the country) soon. He hates the journalists because they don't really care or understand what happened. At the end, though, the chorus is used in a very different context:
"A world that loves it's irony must hate the protest singer... so I'll be leaving soon."
Leaving, not the country, but the WORLD. At the end of the song he decides to kill himself because he can't escape the memory of what he saw, and because the world seems completely blind to it.
@TheTANK Not even close. You see....protest singers do not travel with the news. He is writing this from the point of view of a journalist. The song itself is the protest (eg "protest singer"). It couldnt be an easier song to figure out.
@TheTANK Not even close. You see....protest singers do not travel with the news. He is writing this from the point of view of a journalist. The song itself is the protest (eg "protest singer"). It couldnt be an easier song to figure out.