Serj Tankian - Borders Are - Lyric Video
Вставка
- Опубліковано 22 чер 2010
- New Album Harakiri Available Now! - smarturl.it/harakiri
© 2010 WMG
Lyric video for "Borders Are" from the upcoming Serj Tankian album "Imperfect Harmonies" available Sep. 7, 2010. Visit serjtankian.com to download the track.
I played this video for a group of ninth graders today. We are studying the formation of and role of borders. The question, "What point is the songwriter making about borders?"
Perfect visuals and lyrics for our content and skills goals.
Thanks Serj!
I'm going to assume the formation of borders is strickly and solely created by governments of various systems. The objective of borders is partially a mentality indoctrination. The creation of a border creates "others" "outsiders" possibly a enemy figure. It also contributes in the creation of a national identity.
When it comes to borders its also economical, having a invisible wall that says "this is my home", puts a barrier up on trade routes to outsiders.
The media tells us it's to just keep illegals out and or drug substances.
I believe that to be a overly simplified explanation; and it deserves a deeper digging of understanding and the origins by using Critical thinking skills.
Also, by keeping outside people on the outside, it also keeps the ideas of that person on the outside aswell. Perhaps the power structures that be don't want diverse beliefs being included because it will change the way they want rule and order.
I see this personally in my own life in a different manner. When I was in grade school living with my parents, I was raised on Fox News. I hated outsiders and the word Socialism sent me into a furious rage.
After graduating I got my own place, couldn't afford TV, got a good job at a Union Shop and was introduced to a very wide range of people due to the policies of the unions hiring requirements.
After being exposed to different ideas, I am now a Libertarian Socialist, retaining the individualistic liberty side of me and embracing a new collective side of me aswell. I have found things work better with diverse ideas and understandings, and diversity is beautiful.
Oh that's awesome & amazing. Good job. 8 years on they're all better for it-
Smash imperialism! The only solution is global revolution!
That fear keeps us safe from dangerous outsiders, and we should never let go of that fear or else we'll lose everything: our kings, our gods, and our very way of life will be torn apart and killed in front of us in the flood of evil that wants nothing less than to bring us to our knees and make us cower in defeat.
TL;DR: we need strong borders to keep us safe.
@@Theoszombie
The point is that borders are made because of fear of others, to seperate them from us. We shouldnt have borders or be racist based on what side of the border someone is from
"The King is dead and now we're dancing on the streets.."
Damn, those words are so powerful. I really hope the day comes.
I think Serj is driven to teach us about the ugliness of what goes on around us and that we keep repeating our mistakes against humanity.
I appreciate the depth of his music not just the obvious.
Serj is a very intelligent and wise person. The overall message is that national boarders are holding back humanity, but the subtle message is that we hold ourselves back with mental boarders. Seeing the comment section had opened my eyes to the fear of having open boarders, that we can't function together as some cultures clash in morals. This is the message that our own boarders as individuals are holding us back. If we were to cast aside the national boarders and the ones in our mind, we would all learn from each other. After all, we are a stupid society to believe in imaginary lines holding us away from each other.
Never let someone conflate culture and borders. Most countries have multiple cultures and even similar cultures can have drastic differences. Culture is meant to be always changing and evolving with the times, where as borders are meant to stay put and be defended to the death.
A devotion to borders creates a culture of its own. A culture of fascism and division.
@@gregoryadams9025 wow
Invisible man made borders
"The king is dead and now we're dancing in the streets. As the waters rise we're merely covering our feet."
That last border to disappear...
It's so chilling, and symbolic aside from the obvious message this song has...
Yeah, remove those borders instantly, and watch hell break lose :-)
Removing borders will have to take at least decades if not centuries, to avoid problems.
jetibest The vast majority of borders are pointless. Most countries you can accidentally walk across a border.
MrSqurk I live in The Netherlands and i can just walk to Germany and Belgium without even showing my ID.
Bas Coolen I know that's exactly what I was saying.
MrSqurk Was just trying to add an example to the conversation.
Serj is one of the best singers, persons and activists that I have a lucky to meet. His lyrics have meaning and transmit feelings, in this songs have messages. He want to make a better society and in this attempt he's become a better person. Definitely, I love and admire him forever
This is kinda creepy. Say no to capitalism, say no to borders, and you have global totalitarian superstate.
@@restinpeace1916 Depends on how it played out
Imagine if we all lived like native Americans vs communism
Similar in many ways, but different in many ways as well
@@EonsOfIdiocy
I actualy changed my opinion on communism during this year.
Funny thing is total democracy is totalitarian by liberal deffenition.
But, anyways native americans lived under primitive communism, if i remember correctly?
Are you referring to that?
@@restinpeace1916 I wouldn't know, I was just trying to think of 2 examples
'No one owns the land, nor does it cost anything as it is mother nature, and we will all get along, if not then that conflict will *soon* be worked out
@@restinpeace1916 Also by communism I meant like USSR and NK type where it's just all over the place vs native americans how everything was pretty much going good when they had their land
Serj for president! He'll be the best. :)
President of the earth !! ^_^
CM Djent
A resource based monetary system for seven billion people?
Seems stupid.
Replace the system with a new system...a system of a down!!!
Man...people suck
CM Djent i honestly cant tell if you're pro or anti socialism
"Fear is the cause of separation"...it's a real inconvenient truth dudes!
yeah, the other videos from this album are blocked by UA-cam in my country (on mobile), sweet irony
haha xD
+Nudjisquy What country?
israel
Happy Hanukkah
samantha ha
I'm from Israel and I can watch his videos...
Peace is everywhere but, if we want. Love from Turkey!
Never let you go
Never let you go
Never let you go
Never let you go
[Verse 1]
Borders are the gallows
Of our collective national egos
Subjective lines in sand
In the water, separating everything
[Chorus]
Fear is the cause of separation
Backed with illicit conversations
Procured by constant condemnations
National blood-painted persuasions
[Verse 2]
Here's my song for the free
No, it's not about praise and publicity
Corprotocracy, what a hypocrisy
Aristocrasy versus democracy
[Chorus]
Fear is the cause of separation
Backed with illicit conversations
Procured by constant condemnations
National blood-painted persuasions
[Post-Chorus]
The king is dead and now we're dancing in the streets
As the waters rise we're merely covering our feet
[Bridge]
I never let you go, I never let you go
I never let you go, I never let you go
I never let you go, I never let you go
I never let you go, I never let you go
[Chorus]
Fear is the cause of separation
Backed with illicit conversations
Procured by constant condemnations
National blood-painted persuasions
Fear is the cause of separation
Backed with illicit conversation
Procured by constant condemnation
National blood-painted persuasion
[Post-Chorus]
The king is dead and now we're dancing in the streets
As the waters rise we're merely covering our feet
Your gods are dead and now we're dancing in the streets
As the waters rise we're merely cowering in defeat
[Outro]
I never let you go, I never let you go
I never let you go, I never let you go
I never let you go, I never let you go
I never let you go, I never let you go
Never let you go, I never let you go
Never let you go, never let you go
Never let you go, I never let you go
Never let you go, never let you go
Serj, your a genius
You're*
Yeas you genius !!!!😃😃😃😃😀😀🙂🙂🙂💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
What about his genius?
This is one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard.It has meaning....hardly hear that in music these days. His music is so beautiful and amazing....
(Please visit schools people miss you and they don't even know you.... Thank you for everything you have done for the world. My heart feels so much warmer with your music in it, their's will too... )
This particular song change my way of seeing the world .. THANK YOU SO MUCH for what you caused on me with your music. You 're the one who opened my eyes to a painful but true reality.
With Love from Argentina
(by the way, thanks for the great concert with system of a down that you gave in Buenos Aires recently) .
Abril
damn, the last time i watched this beautiful piece of art was about five years ago. some people never learn.
This song isn't about globalism...its about being at peace.
Serj Tankian talks about "peace" in this song. but he supports the armenian separatism against turks. Thats weird.....
Legendkmr He supports recognition of the Armenian genocide. He always criticized Turkish government and not the people.
@@kbdsgnr fuck off grey wolf lmao
@Harutyun Tatlyan No
And actually he says:"globalism = peace", and he's kinda right. We got to get over with nationalism and seperatism. That's what he means with national egos.
Amen or 100 angam lsum em u chem kshtanum.... tarnumaaa u het chi berum🌏🌏🌏
i knew the last one would be mexico
+Hunter Toole Como mexicano yo también lo sabia XD
+Umer Felex yo igual haha
+Hunter Toole because it was topical and still is
Trump kept his promise, I guess...
Would be a Hispanic saying that wouldn't it? xD
ohh I love it.. I love Serj Tankian, I belive he is The Best poet, singer, artist in 2016..
Press the replay button, and listen to the lyrics again. Or if your deaf, read the screen. Simple as that. This song actually means something,
Thank you, Serj, for fighting for us in your own gifted way. You are a good man and this is beautiful.
if everyone on earth are like Serj Tankian, there will be no war or seperations
Serj is a genious!
People need to see these lyrics in 2019.
Also 2020
And 2021
Coming back to this song now, I think I like my borders.
Serj, you are my blood. Thank thank thank...from Czech rep.
Trump was happy till 4:20
OHHHHHH toooooo goooood
HAHA! Awesome.
CTY (Comment of The Year) award goes to you.
double win!!
Not only did you make a great joke, you also made a great accidental joke.
Such a beautiful song. Moves me to tears every time. The thought of how far away we are from truth and real love is so upsetting. We die at the hateful hands of others who are just like us. Killing in the name of a cause we greet with a smile, looking past the cracks. Gunning down, torturing and dehumanizing. Refusing to entertain the forbidin thought. That thought is that we are wrong. You can't justify a cause that requires such slaughter to maintain, we are evil empty and ignorant of our sadistic seed. For what do we kill our fellow man? For who? We are taught by our governments to hate only because that's how they control us. We are all just people, equal. And the moment we accept that, they lose their power. We tell our self s we need our borders. We tell ourselfs they are great. But why? Why do we hate man, why do we spit out empty promises of freedom of equality, treatys blackened by our ignorance and worst of all, our fear. For the the heart controls the pen and language is power.
Much love to all, have a wonderful day
A world without borders.
Sounds like Outer Heaven to me.
Saw him live in concert about 5 years ago and he was awesome..what a great voice and such charisma on stage!
''The king is dead and now we're dancing in the streets''Phenomenal song, i wonder why this has just like 2 milion views, and shits like justin bieber or lady gaga 200+, i guess is just what the people want, the music we listen is a reflection of ourselves.
it's called brainwash
waroderyus Because we are being brainwashed. Just look at most people in America right now. Work at any shitty job and you will see what kind of people work there. Assholes, negative and sad people.
One of the best lines ever.
As much as I like the song, I could never agree with it's core message.
John Toas so instead of a 1000 corrupt people running 200 different counties you want 10 people running one world. Makes sense
No way that would be corrupted.
or maybe he doesnt believe in governments
@@OnceUponReddit That's what I'm saying. The NWO one world government system looks like a nightmare far from free expression and love. It's a power grab. We need to protect our sovereign nations and their unique cultures and values.
@@anomalous34 100%
Serj would never run for president.
Serj for Presidency! He says he doesn't want to get into politics despite how much he hates the injustice.
But we need him, there's no other way to put it.
People are just people, the internet has proven it, we are all the same just trying to live life and be happy, imaginary lines won't change that, fences or walls won't change that, depite what governments want people will remove the borders we want to be united as the human species
24/02/2022
16/03/2022
Imperfect harmonies is the best Tankian's album by far, it has no the SOAD's like rythm but it's so intense and beautiful that I can't stop listening it.
This man is everything! It sholud be thousands like him!
Only when we as a species improve can we live in a world without borders
More music videos like this please. Serj, i love you.
I teach 9th grade geography and it’s amazing how well this song resonates with the students!
Yup, and its that sentiment makes that moment powerful imo. The idea of moving past the worst that can happen is just really awe inspiring.
I hate borders. This song says a lot of what I've been thinking for a few years now.
Great song.
Serj's solo work definitely has some powerful results.
Serj's solo work MM just perfect ;)
Yeah. Let's open all borders in the world and let's see what you say two months after that. It's childish.
Alexander Klat and you think the whole "stay out of my/our territory, stay within your own part of the world and your own cultural group" thing isn't childish? Either way there are flaws but borders confine. They make it harder for other parts if the world to be understood and therefore respected as an equal in the way that we are all part of this one world and we're all the same fucking species. Prejudice, racism, and close-mindedness piss me off. Sure opening up borders straight up literally like that can have it's problems, but in a more metaphorical way that opens us up to the ability to understand and respect other cultures - this is what should happen.
Jesse Lapham If we disregard human nature we can never build a suitable world for humans. And your idea isn't new. It has been tried many times. And it failed. Human nature doesn't change. Never forget that. It's suicidal.
Alexander Klat you're making a bunch of claims and not backing them up. Also your statements are vague. Human nature? What aspect of human nature are you referring to? Elaborate. Maybe then I might have reason to understand and agree with you.
Love you Serj!!
Love love love ❤️
Serj is the best!
amazing! he's an ARTIST! every song of him is up to the minute! bravo!
Wow, the bassguitar is hardpanned left. That's an unusual productional choice in modern music. Serj is amazing though.
3:45 my country’s border flying off
Love from oman 🇴🇲
You can share yours too :)
1:29 Goodbye our border with Ecuador, Peru and Brazil
3:26 Our border with Panama is gone
3:46 Right after Oman's border, our most extense border with Venezuela is flying and we are an oly country again :')
Love from Colombia man \m/ 🇨🇴
I have trouble seeing a world without borders
what a beautiful piece of music...
The effects of music with very well done lyrics with an actual meaning and not popular gibberish.
This is the number one song to listen while playing Paradox Interactive Games
Nationalists would have an aneurysm at this song.
They are if you read the comments lol
We're all brothers and sisters as children of the planet Earth.
eu amo o serj o cara é demais sou fã desde novo ;D s2
очень хорошая музыка. спасибо за отличное настроение
The King of Rock!
The most beautiful lyric video i have seen.
It would have been amazing if the lyrics and the borders disappearing had some connection.
Great song nevertheless, love to Serj.
Not to be the fuckwad here, but I remember Serj said something along the lines that we are the only species to take notice to these borders. although this is true, our desire to create these borders derived from the fact animals tend to be territorial. Animals (including us) create groups/packs/etc. people we can put our false sense of "trust" into. Imagine a pack of natives they don't let other natives in typically due to fear and distrust. Now add in the removal of the desire of needing to travel to find more food in other locations (hunting/gathering), establishing agricultural methods, and finding other ways the natives can spend their time to replace the time they don't have to spend anymore on hunting/gathering (basically anything that allows them to stay in their location) and Voila! the ingredients to creating the issues with borders. Basically, its a mix of natural territorial instincts of animals, and our discovery of agricultural methods that allowed us to go away from our previous nomadic lifestyle.
Are you speaking of native americans when you say natives? Or natives as in native to that specific land?
No replies haha, nice dood
10 years... my goodness, I was at my last year of elementary school... feels like my whole life happened in the last 10 years
Serj Tankian you are the best
Hmm. This was once my favorite vocalist. This song and video came out and I began examining my world around me objectively.
Then, I looked at history. I remembered all of the blood that was spilled to make the U.S. what it is today, and then I thought. No borders? Does Serj Tankian leave the front door of his house open? His garage door?
At one time, I agreed with the bleeding hearts for peace and prosperity for all of mankind. Common sense and human history shows that true peace can only be achieved by common goals, which is recently achieved via trade and mutually beneficial agreements.
What I was missing before is that globalism is actually the thing we should be running from, yet many of the rock stars “bucking the system” were sharing this dream of NO government or no corrupt government, yet only offered the solution of lawless anarchy.
Tidbit: If you have no government and no military in the U.S., who will protect us from foreign armies? Who would be the people to communicate with foreign nations regarding threats that affect us globally?
You canNOT end war. It’s in our nature. How it is waged and how we react as a nation can be changed. First, we must acknowledge a few things:
> BIG government is not the answer. > Gun control is not an answer for a Liberated people.
> It is not the job of government to provide healthcare.
> We need a _strict_ adherence to the U.S. Constitution *as it is written.*
The real threat to our nation is already here: *Useful Idiots* banging the drums of hate and pushing us toward a Socialism that inevitably leads to Communism.
Division is the game and you’re playing right into the snare.
If there is only one countrie, there are no foreign armies.
Don't really agree
Thanks for your music. Greetings from Chihuahua, Mexico. Hope you can write something about what's happening in our country, all the drug violence... so sad.
Rise up. Enough said. Power rests in the people.
I'd just like to wish your nation luck and peace, my friend; no peace is forever, but neither is any conflict.
Josh Long The people have all the power they just don't know it yet
A great love song.
Never let you go
Never let you go
Never let you go
Never let you go
Fear is the cause of separation
Thanks for holding on your voice so soothing makes me long...
So many people are instantly repulsed by this idea because of how radically different it is from current reality.
I believe that the only thing that borders do is make us lose our common humanity and promote hatred and war. The human race is a race. We have to emphasize unity by forcing ourselves to look past differences, rather than changing the meaning of a difference.
I completely agree. It becomes a lot easier to dehumanize other people when there are borders that allows us to distances ourselves psychologically. It's much easier to say "let's kill those damn Iraqis" than "let's kill those other humans who are just like me".
nothing else would create more hatred and war than a lack of borders.
People would claim power in specific places anyway.These borders would re-create due to nationalism.
That is how people get butchered. Do you not understand that? not everyone has the same intentions as the ones who believe in zero borders.
Borders also promote organization and quality of life. This is the statement of an unlearned barbarian with no basic understanding of government, or human nature for that matter.
With no borders, at this present point in history, every single person on earth would attempt to move into the places with the highest standard of living, which would overextend resources in those decent places, promoting a dramatic drop in quality of life, and a dramatic increase in war, poverty and famine. The "good" places to live in the world were made that way by the people who live there. Nobody else lent in a hand to make them that way. Until third world countries get their act together and begin to cooperate internally an open world, open borders policy would just be a massive immigration followed by massive famine.
So to all you open borders advocates out there, feel free to move to Somalia, the Ivory Coast, or perhaps even Yemen. Create your dream there, and then maybe we can all share in it the world across. Until then, the borders should remain an obstacle to entry unless you have something to offer it beyond "cultural enrichment" (Read; The erosion of culture through mass immigration). We have enough criminals and state-dependent individuals as it is.
While war and famine are indeed horrible, and indeed undesired, my ancestors went through thousands of years of that to get where we are now. They were conquered, they were trampled, they were killed, they were starved. Realizing that these things are indeed quite shitty, they all decided maybe its better to put our differences aside for the time being and work to make things better. This is what the third world has yet to grasp, and it may very well be a few centuries before they figure it out. That is on them, my people have done their duty, and built their paradise, while also fending off those who had designs on its destruction.
borders were created by humanity but nature has no borders
You are the reason we need to bring back territorial predators.
Well bring it on but know this nature will prevail
Corey Bloxham So let me get this... you think that humans hunting wolves to extinction, because wolves would kill humans who ventured into their territory is somehow not animals setting borders?
Animals do set borders but they are not as massive as humanities but nature has no borders
And i was mainly talking about humanity made borders
love the lyrics of this song and Tankian ofcourse!!
People, People, don't continue fighting over something as arguable as whether this song is intelligent or not, just as long as you don't think that most of today's artists actually bring in the intelligence. And yes, I'm talking about you Minaj, stop singing about yourself and men you found attractive. But this is not a place of argument and it is a place of friendship and comradeship.
Glad to see the U.S. Mexico border was there until the end. I thought it would be the first one gone because.. Well, the border is a stick in the sand
MindlessSelfGuitar It kind of makes sense to me. America likes to enforce that border with a militant mindset that is only one level below that of North and South Korea.
And in just a few years it’s even more enforced as to becoming a wall
We now live an an age where we have the technology to sustain everyone on earth with more than enough food and water that they need, if we could live in a unified world without borders, and have a resource economy where money is non existent and everyone works together to achieve greatness. Such a world would mean that there would be nothing we couldn't do, this world would have a focus on peace and the gaining of knowledge. Books instead of guns, laughter and fraternity rather than death and separation.
Happy Birthday Serj! You're awesome!
Nobody would know what war is. Just peace, love and family.
"The border" is not a line. It's a difference between people on a very basic level - and it's not a bad thing indeed. We are different from each other - that makes our contacts meaningfull and valuable because of diversity, konowledge etc. We can exchange ideas and experience - but also be afraid of the Another. This relation is maniheistic... bi-polar. Choice, depends on conscience and trust. Even now we can break those artificial lines on a map but the division will remain not necessery on a national level.
Of course yes, but there is so much other ways to separate regions than a simple uncrossable fictive line.....
What you say is absolutely true, but he is not speaking about the separation between the races, the cultures or whatever - he speaks about the borders put there for specific political or economical reason, against the will of the people. Or at least that is how I understand it.
As a Mexican myself, that last part speaks to me
me imagine que seria la ultima haha
LOL
+Rodrigo Romero as a HUMAN everything he sings my heart screams
why because you hate your country and want to move to america?
the most corrupt country is north korea dipshit
So different an TRUE lyrics. Can´t believe to hear them in this song. thanks so much for that. a more or less small step for humans, to start a new kind of unitary thinking and acting.
Serj,you are the best !!!!!!!!
anyone else notice the mexican US border was taken off last XD
yup and that is pretty accurate since most americans are terrified of our southern neighbors
Faraaz Nadeem Yeah, I wonder if that was intentional.
Faraaz Nadeem This video was sponsored by Donald Trump
+Faraaz Nadeem and canada eeuu was the first
+Faraaz Nadeem You would think the South/North Koreans border would be up there too. It is one of the most guarded borders no?
Haha! I had my money on the Mexican-US Boarder holding out and I was right! That's my horse right there.
Serj is my spirit animal
Guys it's more of a figurative rather than literal, it's about how we think we are so different when we aren't, he's not literally saying let's have one massive government
It was obvious that US border with Mexico was going to be the last one
Which is weird because the border between India and Pakistan is by far the most dangerous and volatile in the world.
PhilFilth I think Israel/Palestine is by far the worst border ever created. All the hate around it is sad
***** Let's agree that all these borders are pretty volatile for different.
It's not about how physically dangerous borders are, but as the song is trying to tell, it's how about how they are just made up in our heads. In the mind of a lot of Americans, mexicans are very different people, even though we're all just humans and want most of the same stuff..
Michel van der Molen Also the Canada/America border was first.
Fear is the cause of separation covid 19 fear fear keeping us apart from eachother
true, that hurts
i agree give me a hug brother
One race one love one destiny!
I love your song's Serj, I love you Serj, you are one of the best singers of all times. I am ready to sell my soul for your songs, and to attend your concert.
wow it's amazing! it is funny how mexican border is last :P
***** I was literally just about to write about that!!! Funny how us Americans have such a desire to enforce the border that lies between us and Mexico. Selfish Americans feel said American Dream is only for Americans. People from the other side of the border would work much harder for it and are that much more deserving of it.
I love how this borderless idea resembles "Imagine" by John Lennon
Bill Hamilton
Mailnly because were one of the few countries in the world who don't kill people for beng spys if they cross our borders. Try this plan in Cuba, any South American country, Any African county, China, Russia, any Middle Eastern country. The list goes on and on, Austarila will just put you in prison for life, but most will just shoot you. We evolved better with people of our own culture. America is a multikulti system that is doomed to fail.
GuilesTrolling Hahaha!
GuilesTrolling HAHAHAHAHHA yh ofc dude ofc. such tolerance very murrica
AntiFaZgb ofc? im confused. ehat did you say? lol
Is it fear that leads my life
Or my life that lead my fears?
deep thoughts with thibaud
Serjtankian, you are my hero
Borders, rules and leaders still exist for a reason.
Is it just me or could serj tankian could start a revolution
he has been a revolution for me!
from system of a down, to his solo compositions
he has been full of natural coherency, spirit, and courage
since he first was making records.
many times I have looked up to him
when my own father was disappointing me as a coward
and a theocratic fascist pawn.
serj showed me a man with depth, spirit, and creativity
who was too strong to let his will and natural being
be crushed by the fascists or the theocrats.
The Danish border still remained..
OMGGGGGG onepiece.
AMAZING!!!!!
Free world
i knew it would be the mexico-U.S.A. border the last goners
i could be king but nobody believes that the king actually lives inside me; they don't like how honest i am
When Yury Gagarin looked at the Earth, he saw no borders.