Rise Against songs always have these deeply ethical discussions in the comment section. Good to see that people can discuss some things in a more decent way.
To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines We toss and turn but don't sleep Each breath we take makes us thieves Like causes without rebels Just talk but promise nothing else We crawl on our knees for you Under a sky no longer blue We sweat all day long for you But we sow seeds to see us through 'Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true We wait to reap what we are due To the rhythm of a time bomb ticking away And the blare of the sirens combing the streets Chased down like dogs we run from Your grasp until the sun comes up We crawl on our knees for you Under a sky no longer blue We sweat all day long for you But we sow seeds to see us through 'Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true Look now at what they've done to you White needles buried in the red The engine roars and then it gives But never dies 'Cause we don't live We just survive On the scraps that you throw away I won't crawl on my knees for you I won't believe the lies that hide the truth I won't sweat one more drop for you 'Cause we are the rust upon your gears We are the insect in your ears We crawl We crawl We crawl... all over you We sow the seeds to see us through Our days are precious and so few We all reap what we are due Under this sky no longer blue We bring the dawn long over-due We crawl We crawl We crawl... all over you
Because of the message. No one wants to hear about how fucked our governments are, administration after administration. Some stupid mother fuckers today just want to bury their heads in the sand and twerk.
"those who make a peaceful revolution impossible make a violent revolution inevitable." -JFK In 2021 it's so more true than ever. I started listening to these guys from a friend at age 12, his name was Collyn. THANK YOU for sharing this song with me. I heard it for the first time over 11 years ago now. Hope you are well if you ever come across this comment and see it.
Yeah when here we are in 2024 and those kinds of morons got to play "grownups" for a few years and look at how far it got us... It's a hot mess like anyone with a triple digit IQ would have predicted. All that communist trash doesn't work. Funny how they were trying to dunk on the GOP or whatever they meant by that, and here we are entering a new conservative age because the post-modern liberalist religion they follow is so toxic and self destructive...
Who the fuck has ever made a peaceful revolution possible? It's a stupid quote; no one with power ever gave over the reigns willingly, they were taken. It's ingrained in the human animal to take and hold onto things (darwinism). We have to stop thinking of ourselves as these things separated from nature and above animalistic traits, we're no better than any animal; just a touch smarter.....in some ways anyway.
Henry David Thoreau was a libertarian, this band had outspoken socialist leanings, they would have had polar opposite views of the role of government lol
@@auklin7079 If I would be born as an american this days I would also hide my mind. Never know who surveillance you if it's not your'e own contry. Love from germany :).
This song is relevant now in 2024 more than ever. WE THE PEOPLE need to stand up and stop letting corporations, billionaires, religious zealots, and downright awful people who don't care whether we live or die have control over major aspects of our lives. THEY CAN'T STOP US IF *US* IS *ALL* *OF* *US* !!
"religious zealots"? LOL what are you talking about? Are you talking about the covidian cultists that happily exchange everyone's freedom for a pat on the back and an exclamation of "moral superiority"? Or are you talking about the left wing post-modern liberal establishment determined to destroy the middle class by subjugating and devid the population between social and racial divides? Please be specific.
@@TB-ni4ur The theocrats that are attacking everyone's rights and funding genocide because they genuinely believe that once Israel wins it will bring about the end of the world as prophesized in the bible.
It's crazy how this song is a decade old and still completely accurate of the situation of poverty and injustice in American ghetto's... I don't understand how not a single person in a position of political power hasn't been pressured enough to fix anything
It's pretty simple..."what's in it for me?" The vast majority of people are selfish. Figure out how to sell them something that they need or want and you'll lift yourself out of poverty.
Simple answer. It is not someone else's job to fix it but your own. If you are counting on the government to fix it that is the same as a cow taking in more feed before they become steak. Nothing has ever been earned the easy way. Strong people create good times. Good times create weak people. Weak people create bad times. Bad times create strong people. This has been the way for all of history.
I've gotta say that punk is not about having a mohawk, earrings or being an "Anarchist"... Punk is standing up against something that wrong! Thank you Rise Against for opening my eyes!
@@skullthunder3181 being an anarchist means being against the all systems of hierarchy. That's why we want to abolish state as an oppressive tool. It's not just about "abolishing the state" though, that kind of shallow thinking is what breeds stupid shit like "anarcho" capitalism. Bunch of idiots. So, at the core of the thought, I believe, anarchism means being against everything that's wrong. That means being against patriarchy, capitalism, state, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, ecocide, and all kinds of wrongs caused by social hierarchies that are oppressive and and destructive. Anarchism is not chaos
Except it's the spoiled losers rioting instead of people who are actually downtrodden. The poorest people in the U.S. are still richer than most of the world.
I think many people misunderstand the meaning of the video. It's not encouraging terrorism or chaos at all, rather it's saying that government negligence, corruption and other bullshit could eventually lead to the tragic ending of the video, a situation that no one wants. Basically telling the government to sort their shit out before things get to this horrific and extreme example.
Totally. It's highlighting all the fucked up things we'd rather spend money on: the military, saving companies like Exxon, and lining the pockets of the pieces of shit that ruin this world. It's a call to action; for peaceful protest and civil disobedience.
Rise Against taught me to stand up to those that make the decisions and fight back against those blind of truth. Thank you Rise Against because of you I am not one of the sheep in a herd.
That's why i listen to them and Linkin Park, too :) I hate the songs, which are just about sex and the other good things in a relationship. But i dont like that the have to destroy everything in their videos... Lucks a bit like "Kill everyone who does that" to other people, who dont listen to the Lyrics (not me, but the most other, i know)
They should release a re-cut of this music video where everything is the same, only the statistics are updated. The disparity has done nothing but grow over the past decade.
That would be neat, though there's probably some risk of getting in trouble now if you release a "new" music video that appears to condone domestic terrorism
well yes that´s true, and unfortunately in these crisis times (Corona-Pandemic, Climate-Crisis), it´s not only the rich getting richer, the poor becoming poorer, BUT the whole bloddy thing just accelerated. poor people are worst hit by the crisis, while Bezos and Co. gained unbelievable amounts of profit. Capitalism is at its end and it won´t change through reforms and voting! For a social revolution worldwide!
While I agree with the song and MOST of its messages some are unfortunately scientifically refutable and there is evidence that supports some of the analytics displayed in this video are either flat out wrong or completely fabricated. The earth had five previous mass extinction events by various means most by things humans had no hand in creating or making worse meaning they were a natural event. We are not immune to a sixth mass extinction event we just had a bigger hand in this one. Current global government is a problem no doubt but as a group we citizens far outnumber them they have purposefully divided us on the key societal fault lines ie race religion gender culture ethnicity age politics geographical location and financial class to our own detriment, we allowed the governments and all media to minipulate and influence us not only in division but our ability to communicate our issues peacefully amongst ourselves. So who is really to blame the politicians and global industrialists or ourselves for ELECTING THEM and giving too much to the interests of the wealthy industrialists to control EVERYTHING. There's plenty of blame to go around but it will not stop the inevitable future that WE are ALL complicit in bringing down on all the species of earth. Like the dinosaurs we had our shot and we blew it, big time.
@@jericho1-4 the problem isn't that cycle occurring. The problem is humans affecting the process so badly, we've reversed course, and then accelerated it 100.000% I wish that were an exaggeration, literally 1000x as fast as it should happen, which means none of the organic life affected can adapt.
I'm starving for change everyday. I'm Navajo and live on the reservation. But I can't live the life I want to, where I can recycle and buy fresh vegetables... I work full time at the hospital. It just, sucks.....
I hear you. It must be hard to be working in a hospital right now. Cases rise as the state does fuck all to stop the spread, especially in poor and Indigenous communities. Solidarity ✊
@@KelikNSG2 It's super stressful. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't. Especially on the reservation. We just recently went back to Code Orange. It just sucks....
damn! hearing this as a teen it's not the same until you grow up and experience it for yourself, it hit different today in 2023!, Thanks for being our voice!
This band truly is amazing. I've been looking at the modern pop music in today's music industry for a long time, as in, ever since Bieber and Manaj came in. Their repetitive lyrics and music always drive me over the edge to considering how it just seems to fuel my generation's ignorance. I'm thirteen and this is the type of band I've been looking for for a long time, ever since I gave up on the newer LP songs. This song alone shows the reality of how not only the U.S.' politicians and people are falling into their own inevitable destruction, but of other nations. I'll really be looking forward to listening to these guys!
This video has so much power. I love Rise Against and hate how few people can accept reality and not look away. If only everyone would do just a small step in the right direction so much could change.....
You sometimes don’t really like a group but sometimes you hear a song that really hits and now you want to go back and see what I was missing. Am a fan now and look forward to the new stuff!!
Human. A little earlier in the song, he mentions how the wealthy elites, corporate media and politicians make it out to be that we the people are the fucking leeches "we are the rust upon your gears, we are the insects in your ears, we crawl all over you".
If you saw my comment on "Prayer Of The Refugee", consider this a part 2. This was another song I listened to in that mental hospital that helped make the stay for me (and those other kids) better. Not so much the content in the video but that the music was a light in the darkness of how life was for me (and those kids) 1 year ago. Thank you so much Rise Against. I don't think you know how much this music helped get me through that tough time in my life.
This is the sort of video that my friends and I discuss a lot while we're hanging out. Its definitely a bad idea at times but I'm glad videos like this one exist.
***** With a good education you'd know that smugness and name calling do not an argument make. These "facts" are easily twistable statistics speaking in broad generalizations.
Everyone commenting about how it's crazy how this video is still applicable... Of course it is. Nothing has changed. Nothing has gotten better. The ills spoken of in this video are inherent to the current political/economic system. None of the reform you've seen put into place has ameliorated these problems - and it won't. This is how the system works, and that's the point of the video.
I am completely and utterly convinced that humanity is going to destroy the world if the majority does not change their ways. I'm trying to change my ways myself, when I start living on campus next year I'm taking on vegetarianism, I don't drive, I have sworn off violence unless it is self defense, and I support human, and I mean all human, rights. I want to go into activism, I'm just not sure how.
Sweet Jesus this actually motivates me to do something in the world. Hell, when I am older and have money I know I can make a difference. As a 17 year old girl living at home with no job, I'm not sure what to do... i wish I could meet them and just have them help me on figuring that out.
One of the best songs and videos in youtube, I love this shit. btw why the hell there's even a censored and uncensored version? I like this version better.
This band is brilliant and too see the lyrics play out is crazy,this song literally is telling us "watch the government is gonna fuck u"and it did!best band ever hands down they're lyrical geniuses in my opinion
Just in case anyone's sceptical, I'm a marine sciences major with a concentration in conservation, and this is all true. What you tend to see on the news are conservative (descriptor, not the party) estimations, but without immediate and radical change we will see irreversible damage to the world around us, and we'll see it from the death toll. Hell i mean, we've already seen it, we just have such a short collective memory we know that we've seen it. The west never had a Fire Season, they had summer, and occasionally had Bad Summers where fires happened. That's how the conifer tree life cycle works, after all, but mind you, those trees had time to grow to Maturity and to seed before they burned. That doesn't happen now. Fire rates and intensity increased so slowly over the past hundred years that no one outside the area saw a different. Like frogs in a pot in became the new normal. And the east? Well noreasters *used* to be intense storms that dropped a lot of snow. They're still intense, because they drop more trees than fucking hurricanes, but now if you're within 50 miles of the ocean you'd be damned to see more than a foot or two of snow all winter. Like, pre-industrial revolution the Hudson River would completely freeze between Manhattan and Brooklyn every year, and the ice industry there Thrived, mind you, thats brackish water, do you know how cold MOVING brackish water has to be to freeze? The answer is VERY. But these days, if that river freezes its treated like it must be an unbearably cold winter, a freak event, rather than one winter out of a dozen where the temperature is where it *should* be. This is our world changing before our eyes, but we still can't see it, apparently.
Always loved this song, first time I saw the video. Now I love it even more lol. Kids are gonna find this in 30 years and be like, you guys knew this was happening and didn't do anything?? sigh...
You got me through 5 years of florida prison. I had you in my ear247. I met you at bravo cucina italian in milwaukee,I screwed up your order and the only time I broke company policy to not redo your order per your request the breading was held together by egg and you are a vegan like my then wife. You were right in what you said to me about that. I must apologize to you in person. Thank you for the more than generous tip from the band.
In the wise words of Dave Grohl to be a punk rocker you just need to know three chords and have a big heart. These guys are the perfect encapsulation of punk rock. I’m so glad I found them 🤘
It is kind of about that. More it's a critique of capitalism and how workers are just exploited as pawns for giant corporations and their owners. This can be very soul draining, speaking as someone that has worked in factories before. But anyone in the working class can feel that really. It's also about how capitalism is literally destroying the earth and leading to mankinds doom. Pollution, over-consumption etc.
Say Who? Really liking your feedback. In my view, Rise Against is like the next generation Rage Against the Machine. Not as aggressive as Rage Against the Machine was, yet they do write similar songs with similar material.
Things have gotten worse for sure. Those numbers are even more horrific today. Nearly 68,000 people die each year due to a lack of health care. Up from the 45,000 their statistic says in the video.
These issues have a spot light on them now... compared to when rise against first tried to wake us up to these problems. Change is happening... slowly.
i am so in into your songs, its like your letters come into my mind before i know you rise against. i listen to your songs last year first time :) you have soul in all songs i feel it....
It's not like Rise Against is the greatest band today....oh, wait...what am I saying???? They ARE the greatest band today. At 55, I have seen a lot of bands live. From The Eagles, Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and Blue Öyster Cult in the 70s to Linkin Park, Disturbed, Motörhead and Volbeat in recent years, no one, I mean NO ONE is as consistently great as Rise Against. (okay, Thin Lizzy was close)
***** Thanks fopr the tip. A bit more pop than Rise Against, but definitely worth listening to. Plus, they have several albums on Amazon Prime so I can listen for free.
midnight_storm_(vǫrðr) Your reading comprehension is shallow. Do you even read the posts before you post? Think about the fact that not every piece of information was in a post? Think about the fact someone could have a favorite genre although listens to other genres? I was probably listening to "classical music", as well as show tunes, opera, and folk (to name just a few) before you were born. The fact you differentiate and list several different obscure music genres, yet still refer to "Classical music" without mentioning the various genres, indicates that you are ignorant that there even is a difference. Compare Albinoni (Barock) to Mahler (late-Romantic) to get an idea of just how different "classical" is.
I'm not sure why everyone is so confused/ offended/ shocked by this video and the depiction of the city burning. Everyone is so fucking ignorant in our culture, taking everything literally and at face value, and not caring to question or give thought to the things that offend us (which will most always be the most beneficial to think about, as it takes us out of our comfort zone and typical thought patterns that keep us ignorant to any greater truth.) There's a reason they show the JFK quote at both the beginning and end of the video. The entire thing is emphasizing that point, not condoning or promoting terrorism. It is reiterating what John F Kennedy said in a manner that grabs the viewers attention. If peaceful revolution isn't an option, then citizens are going to start taking matters into their own hands with perhaps drastic measures.
Ok...pretty much the only thing I've been listening to for the past week or two was Rise Against. I think the only way I can get out of this is by finding another band that I think is better...but...I don't think I can...
How about A Perfect Circle, I know same singer as Tool, but also very deep songs and svenne is right you're not listening hard enough if you don't like Tool.
I understand the desire to make the music video a message but honestly it was making me feel so sick with those bits of text flickering that I had to go down to the comments section after like 1 minute
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Rise Against songs always have these deeply ethical discussions in the comment section. Good to see that people can discuss some things in a more decent way.
Yep 6 years later still true
And this song is awesome for Harley Davidson motorcycle squad
I personally don't think revolutionary music needs to be paired with civil discussion but I guess it's not a negative.
To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away
To the rhythm of the awful rusted machines
We toss and turn but don't sleep
Each breath we take makes us thieves
Like causes without rebels
Just talk but promise nothing else
We crawl on our knees for you
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you
But we sow seeds to see us through
'Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true
We wait to reap what we are due
To the rhythm of a time bomb ticking away
And the blare of the sirens combing the streets
Chased down like dogs we run from
Your grasp until the sun comes up
We crawl on our knees for you
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you
But we sow seeds to see us through
'Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true
Look now at what they've done to you
White needles buried in the red
The engine roars and then it gives
But never dies
'Cause we don't live
We just survive
On the scraps that you throw away
I won't crawl on my knees for you
I won't believe the lies that hide the truth
I won't sweat one more drop for you
'Cause we are the rust upon your gears
We are the insect in your ears
We crawl
We crawl
We crawl... all over you
We sow the seeds to see us through
Our days are precious and so few
We all reap what we are due
Under this sky no longer blue
We bring the dawn long over-due
We crawl
We crawl
We crawl... all over you
I don't know why but i find this group very underrated in my opinion they deserve far better
Because of the message. No one wants to hear about how fucked our governments are, administration after administration. Some stupid mother fuckers today just want to bury their heads in the sand and twerk.
My favorite songs are ones that have message behind them(not that I don't listen to other stuff)
@@Bladerunner5146 bad religion also has profound messages in their songs
*they* don't want this message being spread in the mainstream.
@@arthurlarrubia it was on guitar hero lol how is it now mainstream music
"those who make a peaceful revolution impossible make a violent revolution inevitable." -JFK
In 2021 it's so more true than ever. I started listening to these guys from a friend at age 12, his name was Collyn. THANK YOU for sharing this song with me. I heard it for the first time over 11 years ago now. Hope you are well if you ever come across this comment and see it.
2024 and it seems we are reaching that breaking point.
Yeah when here we are in 2024 and those kinds of morons got to play "grownups" for a few years and look at how far it got us... It's a hot mess like anyone with a triple digit IQ would have predicted. All that communist trash doesn't work. Funny how they were trying to dunk on the GOP or whatever they meant by that, and here we are entering a new conservative age because the post-modern liberalist religion they follow is so toxic and self destructive...
@@niceguyofgames9490Agreed... Agreed. :-/
Who the fuck has ever made a peaceful revolution possible? It's a stupid quote; no one with power ever gave over the reigns willingly, they were taken. It's ingrained in the human animal to take and hold onto things (darwinism). We have to stop thinking of ourselves as these things separated from nature and above animalistic traits, we're no better than any animal; just a touch smarter.....in some ways anyway.
Unfortunately JFK wasn’t a good guy, operation mongoose was really messed up.
"To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away"
Damn, that's one powerful lyric to start a sound! R.A. are geniuses
"if the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to become the agent of injustice to another, then i say: break the law"
Who's that from?
@@maxhallam8796 Henry David Thoreau.
I asume your american, what stop you from a revolution? Do like your so called right, storm the capitol..maybe it is a distopian dream of an european
Henry David Thoreau was a libertarian, this band had outspoken socialist leanings, they would have had polar opposite views of the role of government lol
@@auklin7079 If I would be born as an american this days I would also hide my mind. Never know who surveillance you if it's not your'e own contry. Love from germany :).
This song is relevant now in 2024 more than ever. WE THE PEOPLE need to stand up and stop letting corporations, billionaires, religious zealots, and downright awful people who don't care whether we live or die have control over major aspects of our lives. THEY CAN'T STOP US IF *US* IS *ALL* *OF* *US* !!
ALL OF US
"religious zealots"? LOL what are you talking about? Are you talking about the covidian cultists that happily exchange everyone's freedom for a pat on the back and an exclamation of "moral superiority"? Or are you talking about the left wing post-modern liberal establishment determined to destroy the middle class by subjugating and devid the population between social and racial divides? Please be specific.
@@MykkiOnTheCusp AMOGUS
@@TB-ni4ur The theocrats that are attacking everyone's rights and funding genocide because they genuinely believe that once Israel wins it will bring about the end of the world as prophesized in the bible.
It's crazy how this song is a decade old and still completely accurate of the situation of poverty and injustice in American ghetto's... I don't understand how not a single person in a position of political power hasn't been pressured enough to fix anything
It's pretty simple..."what's in it for me?" The vast majority of people are selfish. Figure out how to sell them something that they need or want and you'll lift yourself out of poverty.
Simple answer. It is not someone else's job to fix it but your own. If you are counting on the government to fix it that is the same as a cow taking in more feed before they become steak. Nothing has ever been earned the easy way. Strong people create good times. Good times create weak people. Weak people create bad times. Bad times create strong people. This has been the way for all of history.
@Da Sauzz The name "Robespierre," comes to mind.
Look and see how much money politicians and the government get from taxpayers. That's the problem, they can't stop picking peoples wallets.
@@jhaas68865 are you really that dense? the middle and lower class have been getting raped by the ultra wealthy and warhawks for years now.
I've gotta say that punk is not about having a mohawk, earrings or being an "Anarchist"...
Punk is standing up against something that wrong!
Thank you Rise Against for opening my eyes!
Yes 🤘🖤
Nah, punk is just about being generally rebellious and fighting against the establishment.
That's what anarchism means.
@@ozyyy009 no, anarchism is a political idea that strives to abolish the state
@@skullthunder3181 being an anarchist means being against the all systems of hierarchy. That's why we want to abolish state as an oppressive tool. It's not just about "abolishing the state" though, that kind of shallow thinking is what breeds stupid shit like "anarcho" capitalism. Bunch of idiots. So, at the core of the thought, I believe, anarchism means being against everything that's wrong. That means being against patriarchy, capitalism, state, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, ecocide, and all kinds of wrongs caused by social hierarchies that are oppressive and and destructive. Anarchism is not chaos
This hits harder now
Except it's the spoiled losers rioting instead of people who are actually downtrodden. The poorest people in the U.S. are still richer than most of the world.
@@dubsspilly5864 source?
@@dubsspilly5864 you know this songs calls directly for an workers revolution.
DIDO
Same feels.
I think many people misunderstand the meaning of the video. It's not encouraging terrorism or chaos at all, rather it's saying that government negligence, corruption and other bullshit could eventually lead to the tragic ending of the video, a situation that no one wants.
Basically telling the government to sort their shit out before things get to this horrific and extreme example.
+The Fool On The Hill smart people understand this.
Thank you!So many people are going 'what abhypocrite saying killing is okay'...
Finally someone understands
Totally. It's highlighting all the fucked up things we'd rather spend money on: the military, saving companies like Exxon, and lining the pockets of the pieces of shit that ruin this world.
It's a call to action; for peaceful protest and civil disobedience.
That name.... combining fool and hermit.... amazing...
Rise Against taught me to stand up to those that make the decisions and fight back against those blind of truth. Thank you Rise Against because of you I am not one of the sheep in a herd.
Im sure you made a big difference these last 10 years 😂😂😂
In the end your just a sheep just like the rest of humanity 😂😂
Ten years later and triple vax'd for sure. Okay Bud. Rage on...
Guitar Hero. World Tour.
why is this comment here XD
+Brad Hale Because this song was in Guitar Hero: World Tour
+dethpunch1998 really? I tryharded this game and I can't remember this song :0
+-StAnLeY_69 all the way
Call of Duty. Advanced Warfare. Xbox One.
Coffee that
Im proud to love a band who portray a message in there music
That's why i listen to them and Linkin Park, too :) I hate the songs, which are just about sex and the other good things in a relationship. But i dont like that the have to destroy everything in their videos... Lucks a bit like "Kill everyone who does that" to other people, who dont listen to the Lyrics (not me, but the most other, i know)
Neema FFA reminds me of Serj Tankian's Harakiri "There are an estimated 36000 nuclear warheads in existance" "Mother nature vs Capitalism, etc"
Neema FFA Most decent bands have notable messages, very few of them are popular. This is one of them.
Neema FFA Dunno if your into this type of music but check out Break The Silence by For Today
This is a political band... search them up
They should release a re-cut of this music video where everything is the same, only the statistics are updated. The disparity has done nothing but grow over the past decade.
That would be neat, though there's probably some risk of getting in trouble now if you release a "new" music video that appears to condone domestic terrorism
well yes that´s true, and unfortunately in these crisis times (Corona-Pandemic, Climate-Crisis), it´s not only the rich getting richer, the poor becoming poorer,
BUT the whole bloddy thing just accelerated. poor people are worst hit by the crisis, while Bezos and Co. gained unbelievable amounts of profit.
Capitalism is at its end and it won´t change through reforms and voting!
For a social revolution worldwide!
While I agree with the song and MOST of its messages some are unfortunately scientifically refutable and there is evidence that supports some of the analytics displayed in this video are either flat out wrong or completely fabricated. The earth had five previous mass extinction events by various means most by things humans had no hand in creating or making worse meaning they were a natural event. We are not immune to a sixth mass extinction event we just had a bigger hand in this one. Current global government is a problem no doubt but as a group we citizens far outnumber them they have purposefully divided us on the key societal fault lines ie race religion gender culture ethnicity age politics geographical location and financial class to our own detriment, we allowed the governments and all media to minipulate and influence us not only in division but our ability to communicate our issues peacefully amongst ourselves. So who is really to blame the politicians and global industrialists or ourselves for ELECTING THEM and giving too much to the interests of the wealthy industrialists to control EVERYTHING. There's plenty of blame to go around but it will not stop the inevitable future that WE are ALL complicit in bringing down on all the species of earth. Like the dinosaurs we had our shot and we blew it, big time.
@@yrulaughing418 it’s only domestic terrorism if you lose
@@jericho1-4 the problem isn't that cycle occurring. The problem is humans affecting the process so badly, we've reversed course, and then accelerated it 100.000% I wish that were an exaggeration, literally 1000x as fast as it should happen, which means none of the organic life affected can adapt.
I'm starving for change everyday. I'm Navajo and live on the reservation. But I can't live the life I want to, where I can recycle and buy fresh vegetables... I work full time at the hospital. It just, sucks.....
I hear you. It must be hard to be working in a hospital right now. Cases rise as the state does fuck all to stop the spread, especially in poor and Indigenous communities. Solidarity ✊
@@KelikNSG2 It's super stressful. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't. Especially on the reservation. We just recently went back to Code Orange. It just sucks....
damn! hearing this as a teen it's not the same until you grow up and experience it for yourself, it hit different today in 2023!, Thanks for being our voice!
Not the heroes we deserved, but the heroes we need now more than ever
This song has never felt more relevant. ✊
we need a re-release with the facts in there updated for 2024.
That 70% water fact in 2025 is kind of scary
@@NPFinestto bad it ain’t true 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@enderslayer8436 It's a good thing it's not true. It's a shame for any living being to suffer...
This rings true even today. I live in a country where children are going hungry. America can do more. Protect our children and save our future.
The fact this pops up on my feed with the current events happening...
Its bands like these that I respect because they sing about real world problems and not sex or drugs *salutes rise against*
Nothing wrong with singing about sex and drugs dude. Its all a part of the human experience.
This band truly is amazing. I've been looking at the modern pop music in today's music industry for a long time, as in, ever since Bieber and Manaj came in. Their repetitive lyrics and music always drive me over the edge to considering how it just seems to fuel my generation's ignorance. I'm thirteen and this is the type of band I've been looking for for a long time, ever since I gave up on the newer LP songs. This song alone shows the reality of how not only the U.S.' politicians and people are falling into their own inevitable destruction, but of other nations. I'll really be looking forward to listening to these guys!
jesus christ kill me
This video has so much power. I love Rise Against and hate how few people can accept reality and not look away. If only everyone would do just a small step in the right direction so much could change.....
one of those songs that just get more relevant the more time goes on
You sometimes don’t really like a group but sometimes you hear a song that really hits and now you want to go back and see what I was missing. Am a fan now and look forward to the new stuff!!
what the fuck did you say??????
the number cockroaches in the pentagon, was that the insect kind or the human variant?
pretty sure it was the human variant.
+Andrew Leslie It's gotta be.
Human. A little earlier in the song, he mentions how the wealthy elites, corporate media and politicians make it out to be that we the people are the fucking leeches "we are the rust upon your gears, we are the insects in your ears, we crawl all over you".
I think he means not just in the Pentagon but people associated too
Someguy583 I think it's literall cockroaches. It's ment to show how the pentagon is rotting
Rise against are more inspiring then i thought... before listening to this, and make it stop, i had only heard "worth dying for".
It’s amazing how much better this genre is when you actually have a message.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
This is an instructional video. 🔥🔥🔥
Rise Against is taking over my life and I'm completely okay with it.
me too, man
one of the best things that can happen to people !
me 2 im also ok with them taking my whole life away from me
Never let any one thing influence you this much brother.
I miss guitar hero....playing this song on world tour almost made me put my head through the ceiling.
This song needs to be in the radio
It was....
@@kylelee1911 I think they mean it needs to be nowadays lol
It was a major radio hit for the band tho
If you saw my comment on "Prayer Of The Refugee", consider this a part 2.
This was another song I listened to in that mental hospital that helped make the stay for me (and those other kids) better. Not so much the content in the video but that the music was a light in the darkness of how life was for me (and those kids) 1 year ago. Thank you so much Rise Against. I don't think you know how much this music helped get me through that tough time in my life.
Even today this video is relevant
Don't think this is going to stop being relevant anytime soon.
I don't even have words to describe how great rise against is.
This is the sort of video that my friends and I discuss a lot while we're hanging out. Its definitely a bad idea at times but I'm glad videos like this one exist.
i love how the censored version leaves out every single one of these facts that we need to know
Censored for the weak-minded idiots
+Brittany Brown no way really!? >:( I've never seen the censored ver.
None of these facts are really all that important, they're just put here to make you think this video is saying more than it actually is.
***** Somebody disagrees with you = Call them an idiot. Need directions back to the Trump rally mate?
***** With a good education you'd know that smugness and name calling do not an argument make. These "facts" are easily twistable statistics speaking in broad generalizations.
Everyone commenting about how it's crazy how this video is still applicable... Of course it is. Nothing has changed. Nothing has gotten better. The ills spoken of in this video are inherent to the current political/economic system. None of the reform you've seen put into place has ameliorated these problems - and it won't. This is how the system works, and that's the point of the video.
I love this song, the video, the message & rise against in general ❤️🖤
I think it‘d be great, if they would remake the video with today’s facts.
Amazing attitude, they should do a remake for 2023!
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." ~JFK~
Llew KaMiamos Well... hopefully 1776 will not have to commence again and we can just drain the swamp...
Zach E drain the swamp deez nuts. Trumps appointees are more corrupt than the current cabinet
Deez Nuts still better then the Obama administration.
Well the us goverment hasnt stopped any revolutions but a good example would be spain and catalonia.
The Ouchiegiver not at all. I can't believe how blind trump voters can be. Or is it because you're actually *that* stupid?
Every year I find this song more important
I am completely and utterly convinced that humanity is going to destroy the world if the majority does not change their ways. I'm trying to change my ways myself, when I start living on campus next year I'm taking on vegetarianism, I don't drive, I have sworn off violence unless it is self defense, and I support human, and I mean all human, rights. I want to go into activism, I'm just not sure how.
Update?
In today's technology, (if you can afford it no offense), you can get an electric car.
@@vikiss47 Well, that is, if you get your electricity through renewable resources.
Mike White Yes or will produce the car by yourself bc car factories are also using non-renewal energy sources
"No son los rebeldes, los que crean los problemas del mundo. Son los problemas del mundo los que crean a los rebeldes."
-Ricardo Flores Magón.
Esa cita fue estupida!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This band just always gives me those summer vibes, regardless of the lyrics
We have too remember this was made in 2010 man one decade later it feels more real than anything.
It's not lost on me that the censored version of the music video doesn't remove the insinuation of terrorism but the facts and statistics
i've come to the conclusion that these guys can do no wrong. everything they do is awesome
Thanks so much Rise Against, you guys are the best, trying to create a point in the world. Hopefully you will make a change in history. :)
Why so few views?! This is honestly one of their best songs. High school nostalgia... These songs certainly hold up.
This is what we live with everyday
EVERY RISE AGAINST SONG IS TIMELESS!
Sweet Jesus this actually motivates me to do something in the world. Hell, when I am older and have money I know I can make a difference. As a 17 year old girl living at home with no job, I'm not sure what to do... i wish I could meet them and just have them help me on figuring that out.
Did you end up figuring it out?
@@23Harlequin i was just about to ask but really tho did you
I'm 19 myself and find myself in the same situation you were in, do you have any advice?
@@safron2442 Join the communist party
@@Matheus-dj9sq lol in this day and age I can't tell if you are joking or not
Do you feel that world-changing power inside you when you listen to Rise against? Like you could do anything ?
"And don't you remember when we were young
And we wanted to set the world on fire?
'Cause I still am, and I still do"
no
No I feel pissed off I can't do anything to change how fucked up the world is
2:03 His eyes :O
Erik Simon I know right?
S A M L O N
Now do this music video again with updated stats. We need this.
One of the best songs and videos in youtube, I love this shit. btw why the hell there's even a censored and uncensored version? I like this version better.
This band is brilliant and too see the lyrics play out is crazy,this song literally is telling us "watch the government is gonna fuck u"and it did!best band ever hands down they're lyrical geniuses in my opinion
This is more relevant now than it has ever been, god or originator bless us all to overthrow.
Wow can’t believe I am back in the 10 years later crazy how things change and we grow as people . Stay blessed!❤️💜
Just in case anyone's sceptical, I'm a marine sciences major with a concentration in conservation, and this is all true. What you tend to see on the news are conservative (descriptor, not the party) estimations, but without immediate and radical change we will see irreversible damage to the world around us, and we'll see it from the death toll. Hell i mean, we've already seen it, we just have such a short collective memory we know that we've seen it. The west never had a Fire Season, they had summer, and occasionally had Bad Summers where fires happened. That's how the conifer tree life cycle works, after all, but mind you, those trees had time to grow to Maturity and to seed before they burned. That doesn't happen now. Fire rates and intensity increased so slowly over the past hundred years that no one outside the area saw a different. Like frogs in a pot in became the new normal. And the east? Well noreasters *used* to be intense storms that dropped a lot of snow. They're still intense, because they drop more trees than fucking hurricanes, but now if you're within 50 miles of the ocean you'd be damned to see more than a foot or two of snow all winter. Like, pre-industrial revolution the Hudson River would completely freeze between Manhattan and Brooklyn every year, and the ice industry there Thrived, mind you, thats brackish water, do you know how cold MOVING brackish water has to be to freeze? The answer is VERY. But these days, if that river freezes its treated like it must be an unbearably cold winter, a freak event, rather than one winter out of a dozen where the temperature is where it *should* be. This is our world changing before our eyes, but we still can't see it, apparently.
Always loved this song, first time I saw the video. Now I love it even more lol.
Kids are gonna find this in 30 years and be like, you guys knew this was happening and didn't do anything?? sigh...
Its pretty fucked up that the numbers in the video are actually smaller than they are now.
John Wardell and its only gotten worse....
yet you still drive a V8. eat 3 chickens a week and shit into the ocean. haha. Yeah were fucked.
Actually I bicycle, eat things that I grow or raise myself, and live in a town that purifies sewage.
except for the number of western whales, that's lower
Exactly, we were given these animals for a reason. It's just that we need to learn to respect them and the life they're giving us.
This epitomizes my love my Rise Against!
stuff like this is currently also happening in Kiev
great song BTW i love this band
price of oil now: -$37
As long we live in world with financial needs, their wont be peace with one another.
Every blue-collar worker should hear this at least once. ❤❤❤
2020
The more things change the more things stay the same
You got me through 5 years of florida prison. I had you in my ear247. I met you at bravo cucina italian in milwaukee,I screwed up your order and the only time I broke company policy to not redo your order per your request the breading was held together by egg and you are a vegan like my then wife. You were right in what you said to me about that. I must apologize to you in person. Thank you for the more than generous tip from the band.
It’s 2024 and this hits harder now than when it first came out!
In the wise words of Dave Grohl to be a punk rocker you just need to know three chords and have a big heart.
These guys are the perfect encapsulation of punk rock. I’m so glad I found them 🤘
We are the rust upon your gears
Solidarity 2020
When hearing this song for the first time ever, thought is was about dead-end jobs and how debilitating they can be.
+Victor Amadeus III Of Sardinia Kill your sheeo? What
It is kind of about that. More it's a critique of capitalism and how workers are just exploited as pawns for giant corporations and their owners. This can be very soul draining, speaking as someone that has worked in factories before. But anyone in the working class can feel that really.
It's also about how capitalism is literally destroying the earth and leading to mankinds doom. Pollution, over-consumption etc.
Say Who? Really liking your feedback. In my view, Rise Against is like the next generation Rage Against the Machine. Not as aggressive as Rage Against the Machine was, yet they do write similar songs with similar material.
I saw them last night in concert last night and Jesus this song hits you way harder live, absolutely love these guys
Llevo 4 años buscándola
Y al fin la vuelvo a escuchar
After all this time since this song has released, have things gotten better or worse? Because I’m really not sure. Have we made any progress at all?
I've been asking myself the same thing...this song is way more relevant now sadly...
Things have gotten worse for sure. Those numbers are even more horrific today. Nearly 68,000 people die each year due to a lack of health care. Up from the 45,000 their statistic says in the video.
These issues have a spot light on them now... compared to when rise against first tried to wake us up to these problems. Change is happening... slowly.
Thank god for guitar hero world tour 🎸
i am so in into your songs, its like your letters come into my mind before i know you rise against. i listen to your songs last year first time :) you have soul in all songs i feel it....
We need to spread the message of songs like this to change the world, anyone can make a difference, LET RISE AGAINST"S MESSAGE BE KNOWN!!!!
It's not like Rise Against is the greatest band today....oh, wait...what am I saying???? They ARE the greatest band today. At 55, I have seen a lot of bands live. From The Eagles, Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and Blue Öyster Cult in the 70s to Linkin Park, Disturbed, Motörhead and Volbeat in recent years, no one, I mean NO ONE is as consistently great as Rise Against. (okay, Thin Lizzy was close)
***** Thanks fopr the tip. A bit more pop than Rise Against, but definitely worth listening to. Plus, they have several albums on Amazon Prime so I can listen for free.
midnight_storm_(vǫrðr) Your reading comprehension is shallow. Do you even read the posts before you post? Think about the fact that not every piece of information was in a post? Think about the fact someone could have a favorite genre although listens to other genres? I was probably listening to "classical music", as well as show tunes, opera, and folk (to name just a few) before you were born.
The fact you differentiate and list several different obscure music genres, yet still refer to "Classical music" without mentioning the various genres, indicates that you are ignorant that there even is a difference. Compare Albinoni (Barock) to Mahler (late-Romantic) to get an idea of just how different "classical" is.
This really fits 2020...
Defeat isn't going down it's staying down
Why do I get the feeling that the Pentagon cockroaches are not only 'bugs?'
love MUSIC
Didn't notice this was playing and thought it was my own heart beating lol
The world needs these guys now more than ever.
I'm not sure why everyone is so confused/ offended/ shocked by this video and the depiction of the city burning. Everyone is so fucking ignorant in our culture, taking everything literally and at face value, and not caring to question or give thought to the things that offend us (which will most always be the most beneficial to think about, as it takes us out of our comfort zone and typical thought patterns that keep us ignorant to any greater truth.)
There's a reason they show the JFK quote at both the beginning and end of the video. The entire thing is emphasizing that point, not condoning or promoting terrorism. It is reiterating what John F Kennedy said in a manner that grabs the viewers attention. If peaceful revolution isn't an option, then citizens are going to start taking matters into their own hands with perhaps drastic measures.
My ex hated RA
I knew we’d never last
For real. If my girl isn’t into punk and metal there are gonna be major issues
What did she hate about them?
@@missjones7013 the mere sound of them.
@@shizzle1903 my RA loving brain cannot even comprehend
Ok...pretty much the only thing I've been listening to for the past week or two was Rise Against. I think the only way I can get out of this is by finding another band that I think is better...but...I don't think I can...
***** Yeah...I don't like tool. But that's just me. I've listened to it a while ago, but didn't like it at all.
TheDemonized
Then you're not listening hard enough.
How about A Perfect Circle, I know same singer as Tool, but also very deep songs and svenne is right you're not listening hard enough if you don't like Tool.
Try Red Hot Chili Peppers
Try anti flag
Wayyyy ahead of its time. Still Relevant
we seriously need to make a big change so we can have a future
striker fullforce trump won. No more war
there will never be a time when this song isn't relevant.
I understand the desire to make the music video a message but honestly it was making me feel so sick with those bits of text flickering that I had to go down to the comments section after like 1 minute
Gambrous the censored version has everything except the text
As long as the dream lives, there is hope. The least we can do is not let the dream die.