Cassandratic Equation
Rising Against Chains: Strike Anywhere's Powerful Message
Lyrics
The past nights I have had dreams - three dreams of change
The speaker describes having three dreams of change in recent nights.
The final conflict at the world's end. People running away
Depicts a final conflict at the world's end, with people fleeing in fear.
From fear hands to cover their eyes and ears and mouths of
People are covering their eyes, ears, and mouths, symbolizing avoidance of harsh realities.
The leaders drowning listen!
Leaders are drowning and urged to listen, possibly to the plight of the people.
Are our souls in bondage unbreakable? Heartriot exodus solution:
Raises questions about the unbreakable bondage of souls and introduces the concept of a solution through a "Heartriot exodus."
The divergent path seems so clear we run back into freedom
The divergent path to freedom is clear, but people run back into bondage.
We focus and we defy this time of pain and so we go into the
Facing pain, the speaker and others resist and enter an underground movement in America in 1999, applicable to any year or place.
Underground America 1999, but it could be any year, anywhere
Reflects the setting in America in 1999, emphasizing universality.
They try to teach us to take back now into bondage a people
Attempts to teach people to reclaim freedom are met with resistance.
Liberated they shoot and reload fear at the working classes
The liberated face oppression and fear from those in power.
And the poor are separated from their families as the rich act
The rich act without empathy, causing separation of the poor from their families.
Like they've never felt any pain. They reload fear at the working
Reiteration of the reload of fear at the working classes, emphasizing systemic oppression.
Classes. In the wound lies self-defeat.
Self-defeat is found in the wound caused by oppression.
They jail the threat of consciousness (Yes I!) and deprive us of
Conscious individuals are jailed, depriving them of choices and causing societal suffering.
Choices we suffer the mess. I revolt for the vision: strength,
The speaker rebels for a vision of strength, kindness, and love, urging a return to freedom.
Kindness, and love in your eyes run back into freedom.
Reiterates the focus on the vision despite the prevailing pain and a return to freedom.
We focus and we defy this time of pain and so we go into the
Revisits the idea of the underground movement in America 1999, applicable anywhere.
Underground America 1999, but it could be any year, anywhere
Restates the setting's universality and the struggle for freedom.
We build a window for the vision of a freedom we could reach
Building a window for the vision of freedom, creating an opportunity for positive change.
Will we smash it with the brick of self-defeat?
Raises the concern that self-defeat might destroy the vision of freedom.
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