Black Masks And Gasoline Lyrics - Rise Against
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Simply because you can breathe,
Doesn't mean you're alive,
Or that you really live.
This life has taken it's toll
And she just doesn't know,
How much more she can give
But here, at the top of the world, where I raise my hands and I clench my fists,
They stand before me below, demanding the answers with flips of a switch
I don't understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(that this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn't care less
A need for revolution's rising, it comes to the surface, gasping for air,
We're not putting up with this planet one more day much less one more year
I don't understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(that this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn't care less
So here and now, in our rotting nation
The blood, it pours, it's all on our hands now
We live, in fear, of our own potential
To win, to lose, it's all on our hands now
And I have an American Dream,
But it involves black masks and gasoline,
One day I'll turn these thoughts into screams,
At a world turned its back down on me
I don't understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(that this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn't care less
Doesn't mean you're alive,
Or that you really live.
This life has taken it's toll
And she just doesn't know,
How much more she can give
But here, at the top of the world, where I raise my hands and I clench my fists,
They stand before me below, demanding the answers with flips of a switch
I don't understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(that this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn't care less
A need for revolution's rising, it comes to the surface, gasping for air,
We're not putting up with this planet one more day much less one more year
I don't understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(that this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn't care less
So here and now, in our rotting nation
The blood, it pours, it's all on our hands now
We live, in fear, of our own potential
To win, to lose, it's all on our hands now
And I have an American Dream,
But it involves black masks and gasoline,
One day I'll turn these thoughts into screams,
At a world turned its back down on me
I don't understand where you got this idea,
So deeply ingrained in your head
(that this world) is something that you must impress,
Cause I couldn't care less
Writer: PRINCIPE/MCILRATH/BARNES/MOHNEY
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Great song | Reviewer: Ben_psotka@hotmail.com | 5/10/10
Awesome song, tells of how we are destroying the Earth and how we must control our own fate
[this life has taken its toll] we, humans, have taken too much a toll on this planet
[a need for revolution's rising, it comes to the surface, gasping for air] our feeling that time is running out, we will be forced to act in desperation
[so here and now, in our rotting nation] hopelessness of humanity, we are too vain and irresponsible to fix the damage we have done to the Earth
[the blood, it pours, it's all on our hands now] the guilt, eventually everybody will realize the sad state that our planet is in, and it will be too late to act
[we live, in fear, of our own potential] we don't really know what we are capable of doing to the Earth, but we will notice this soon
[to win, to lose, it's all on our hands now] we control our own fate
This is about Tim McIlrath being fed up, he has an american dream of eradication and punishment, he knows that people as a whole will not attempt to fix the planets problems and he is simply out of patience [at a world that turned its back down on me]
Is this the real meaning of the song? I don't know. This is how I interpret it.
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