Going Up
Rising Dissent: Echoes of a World Unraveling
Lyrics
Ain't thou watching my film
A question about someone observing or paying attention to the speaker's life
Analyzing me
Wondering if the observer is analyzing the speaker
Rusty junker squawker
Describing a deteriorated or old vehicle making loud noises
Shaking up it say
Suggesting that the noisy vehicle is causing disturbance or chaos
If he should pull the plugs out
Speculating on the consequences if someone were to disrupt or erase the speaker's history
On our history
Concern about the potential erasure of personal and collective history
And all of history, yeah
Highlighting the impact on all of history if significant events are erased
Things that shouldn't be
Referring to things that should not exist or happen
Things that couldn't be, no
Addressing impossibilities or things that are not feasible
Things that had to be
Acknowledging unavoidable events or truths
Don't you see?
Emphasizing a realization or understanding of a situation
Don't you see?
Repetition for emphasis, urging understanding
It's going up, up, up
Expressing a sense of progression or improvement
It's going up
Reiteration of the idea of something going up
It's going up, up, up
Continuation of the theme of ascent or improvement
It's going up
Reiteration of the idea of something going up
Let's get the hell out of here
A desire to leave the current situation
Let's get the hell out of here
Repetition of the desire to leave
Going up
Stating the action of going up
Going down
Contrast with the previous line, suggesting a change in direction
Don't you wanna know what's wrong with the world?
Pose a question about understanding the world's problems
Everywhere there's people with no flowers in their hair
Observation of a lack of beauty or positivity in the world
Flowers in their hair
Repetition of the observation, emphasizing the absence of flowers
Wanna know what's wrong with the world?
Reiteration of the earlier question about understanding the world's problems
Everywhere there's people with no flowers in their hair
Repetition of the observation of a lack of beauty or positivity
Flowers in their hair
Repetition of the emphasis on the absence of flowers
Flowers in their hair
Reiteration of the emphasis on the absence of flowers, possibly suggesting a continued concern
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