One day I’ll review and comment on songs by bands other than Strike Anywhere, I promise! But today, I felt in need of a morale boost. And that boost often comes in the form of music I find invigorating; In this case, Infared by Strike Anywhere.
Check out the music video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUDNskH4vkY
Infared
Are we running so far
from facing the numbers who
clash in an empty rooms
for false visions we search
and the reflections consume
but the mirror is everyone’s tomb
what we’ll find
in the waste of time
all these self hating days in the image maze
losing sight of our roots in the empty shells
where everyone fights themselves, selves
everyone fights themselves, selves
[Chorus:]
I’m tired of looking out from
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
watching gridlock in the window
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
another answer for our crimes
and I get so tired of waiting for it
to find the truth in everything rejected
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
another day between the lines
Rooftop to rooftop screaming out into the sky
we fight the war inside us turning answers into questions
through all this vanity we’ll fight ‘til soul rebuild
fools gold what we had the symptoms of a world gone mad
the world’s lies, the masses cry,
children’s lives spent sewing up our cheap disguise
losing sight of our roots in the cathode rays
amnesia for the end of our days, days
amnesia for the end of our days, days
[Chorus:]
I’m tired of looking out from
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
until it’s nothing special
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
another answer for our crimes
and I get so tired of waiting for it
to find the truth in everything rejected
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
another day between the lines
We’re all gone dead
what we reject [x3]
Wake up everyone!
blank eyes tired of waiting
outside here I am
blank eyes tired of waiting and tired of wasting it all away
outside here I am
To me, this song is all about how often we feel trapped in the circumstances of our lives and the world. Being sick of the daily grind, feeling destroyed by the tiring and sickening routines that we’re forced into, and told give our lives value.
Is our sole purpose on this planet to work to get money to buy food and shelter to be near our places of work so that we can repeat this cycle and never realize our full potential? I would say no. I would say that an ideal society is one where we are encouraged and intended to explore our creativity, our passions, and our loves and truly discover who we are. I find it repulsive to be told to fit into a mold, follow the rules and make sure that I ‘invest for the future’.
What kind of future is there for a life that toils and toils in circles of misery until old age when, our lives’ work completed, we are too disillusioned with being told our roles that we simply give up on the passion we once had.
At times when I feel that I’m working in circles and repeating my routine over and over to an meaningless end, it renews my hope to know that there are others that know there is another way, and have hopes and aspirations like mine. Hopes of a better life and world where we can realize our full potential, instead of simply being cogs in the grand machine of capitalist corporatocracy.
Their schools test us on what they teach us, not what we actually know. Don’t let anyone ever tell you to bury your dreams.
Peace, Love, Unity.
-Justin
