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.
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.
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 :).
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
"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.
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.
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
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 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.
***** 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.
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....
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)
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.
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 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* !!
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.
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".
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.
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.....
If you knew anything about communism you wouldn't be posting that communist fist. Communism will only lead to an already oppressive government centralizing MORE authority over the population is that what you want? Don't be ignorant, I fight for the freedom for the right for man to govern themselves, not for an authoritarian regime. If you didn't know that, study up on the Russian and Chinese Communist revolution and get educated
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 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
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.
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.
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...
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.
The dairy industry is STRUGGLING now. People are waking up! The numbers may have gone up, but the demand for dairy has gone WAY DOWN. They only survive based on every increasing government subsidies that steal your taxes to artificially and communistically keep a dying industry alive. Join the fight now and stop the unjust killing of animals for our tastebuds! The dairy industry will fall before any of the others, much thanks to movies like "Dominion (2018)" and "What the Health" that target people's false perceptions and educated people about what's really required to produce dairy products. Buy OAT MILK or RICE MILK or any of the dozen milk substitutes instead. No cruelty involved, MUCH lower carbon footprint, MUCH cheaper to make so the price will fall much lower than dairy as demand increases etc. Also it's better for you!
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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 :).
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
"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.
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
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
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 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...
"To the sound of a heartbeat pounding away"
Damn, that's one powerful lyric to start a sound! R.A. are geniuses
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
Not the heroes we deserved, but the heroes we need now more than ever
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.
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....
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
"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?
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 😂😂
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
one of those songs that just get more relevant the more time goes on
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Don't think this is going to stop being relevant anytime soon.
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!
price of oil now: -$37
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.
we need a re-release with the facts in there updated for 2024.
Rise against are more inspiring then i thought... before listening to this, and make it stop, i had only heard "worth dying for".
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
2024 74% of the world still has clean drinking water
Even today this video is relevant
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
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
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.
Every year I find this song more important
It’s amazing how much better this genre is when you actually have a message.
I don't even have words to describe how great rise against is.
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.
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
Every blue-collar worker should hear this at least once. ❤❤❤
2:03 His eyes :O
Erik Simon I know right?
S A M L O N
It’s 2024 and this hits harder now than when it first came out!
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
Amazing attitude, they should do a remake for 2023!
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.
2023 and this is more relevant than ever.. Be safe out there
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
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
Why so few views?! This is honestly one of their best songs. High school nostalgia... These songs certainly hold up.
This is an instructional video. 🔥🔥🔥
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.....
This is what we live with everyday
We have too remember this was made in 2010 man one decade later it feels more real than anything.
This band just always gives me those summer vibes, regardless of the lyrics
Crazy how we get closer and closer to these dates…
This song has never felt more relevant. ✊
If you knew anything about communism you wouldn't be posting that communist fist. Communism will only lead to an already oppressive government centralizing MORE authority over the population is that what you want? Don't be ignorant, I fight for the freedom for the right for man to govern themselves, not for an authoritarian regime. If you didn't know that, study up on the Russian and Chinese Communist revolution and get educated
2020
The more things change the more things stay the same
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.
EVERY RISE AGAINST SONG IS TIMELESS!
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.
We are the rust upon your gears
Solidarity 2020
Now do this music video again with updated stats. We need this.
13 years later and it’s more true now than ever.
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
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. :)
As long we live in world with financial needs, their wont be peace with one another.
If you are ever on the fence about seeing them in concert, trust me. Do it.
Why do I get the feeling that the Pentagon cockroaches are not only 'bugs?'
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.
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.
Defeat isn't going down it's staying down
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...
there will never be a time when this song isn't relevant.
Who listening to this absolutely banger in 2022 ?
That water stat is getting close to being on point.
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.
This just made me more paranoid of the world today.
U need to be aware
Ha, try now.
Don't get mad at the capitalist's rape of the world and the rest of humanity.
Get even.
This is more relevant now than it has ever been, god or originator bless us all to overthrow.
Growing food is an act of rebellion.
Didn't notice this was playing and thought it was my own heart beating lol
This epitomizes my love my Rise Against!
i've come to the conclusion that these guys can do no wrong. everything they do is awesome
Hits even harder now
Fact. America is trash lol
10 years later and things have gotten WORSE
The dairy industry is STRUGGLING now. People are waking up! The numbers may have gone up, but the demand for dairy has gone WAY DOWN. They only survive based on every increasing government subsidies that steal your taxes to artificially and communistically keep a dying industry alive. Join the fight now and stop the unjust killing of animals for our tastebuds!
The dairy industry will fall before any of the others, much thanks to movies like "Dominion (2018)" and "What the Health" that target people's false perceptions and educated people about what's really required to produce dairy products. Buy OAT MILK or RICE MILK or any of the dozen milk substitutes instead. No cruelty involved, MUCH lower carbon footprint, MUCH cheaper to make so the price will fall much lower than dairy as demand increases etc. Also it's better for you!
Capitalism.
This really fits 2020...
This hits even HARDER now. We will not comply.
Our days are precious and few
stuff like this is currently also happening in Kiev
great song BTW i love this band
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.
This song hits even harder in 2021
Sometimes dreams just don't come true!
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.
that heavy part after time bomb ticking awaY
Need an an updated version of this video in 2021.
I wish i can have a 1999 Porsche carrera in all black so i can listen to re educación by rise against it's My favorite rock band 🤟🇺🇲🤗
1:43 love his eyes ♥
Thank god for guitar hero world tour 🎸
Wayyyy ahead of its time. Still Relevant
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.