Chamber the Cartridge Lyrics
In alleys void of any light where nameless things live out of sight
Down thru the scrapes of the sky past neon words glowing all night
Echoes my name between each car, are you happy where you are?
We'll let the world carry our weight
Its back breaks with every mile
But we all live in denial
Is it too late to reverse what we've become?
A lesson to learn at a crucial point in time
What's mine was always yours, and yours is mine
While every breath that we take, we only suffocate
Brush past a myriad of scenes of a homeless vet crashed
On Wall Street, a single mom of three, a deadened personality
They let the world carry their weight
Its back breaks with every mile
But they all live in denial
Is it too late to reverse what we've become?
A lesson to learn at a crucial point in time
What's mine was always yours, and yours is mine
Eyes glazed with distrust, no sense of wrong or right
Eyes glazed with distrust, no sense of wrong or right
Eyes glazed with distrust, no sense of wrong or right
Is it too late to reverse what we've become?
A lesson to learn at a crucial point in time
What's mine was always yours, and yours is mine
For me this song is defiantly about the environment and the state of the world. Tim is questioning whether the earth can be repaired or whether we have already done too much damage.
That is defiantly what these lines mean to me:
I’m blind to this impending fate We'll let the world carry their weight Its back breaks with every mile But they all live in denial
When he says: "What's mine was always yours, and yours is mine" I think he is referring to the idea that we all share the one earth. So if I damage part of it, it effects every one else as well.
This is one of the first Rise Against tracks with an obvious environmentalist bend. I wonder if Tim has been thinking of the state of the earth lately.
This is among my top 5 favorite songs by RA. It gets me so charged up every time I hear it, and I always feel a little bit stronger afterwards.
"Save us from what we have become tonight. Eyes glazed with distrust, no sense of wrong or right."
These two lines connected with the chorus are so well written and strike a chord in me like nothing else. Tim can certainly write incredible lyrics. He's been doing that since '99.
I think that Tim is referencing city life. In the first stanza of lyrics,
Tell me how these things traced with colors filled with black debris And how these loyal, living Reich were nameless things swept out of sight Dead through the streamers on the sky past neon words where we Remember those killed by names we each call, are you happy where you are?
He sets up a setting, he points out the buildings and the bright neon signs of the city. He talks about how desensitized we all are, referring to the mother of three on wall street. He even goes further and calls this woman a TV personality, as if trying to say that reporters care more about showing off to the public, rather than helping her.
The words:
Save us from what we have become tonight Eyes glazed with distrust, no sense of wrong or right
Are explaining how the scents of right and wrong has diminished, and how we all cant trust each other. Tim is pleading for this to be fixed.
I also believe that the first words of the track, not the song, but the track
This is noise
Are also important. He is referring to the fact that the song is just media, and how we don't act on it, even though he is pointing out common wrongs in life, no one acts on it. Its a social commentary about how a plea for help is just noise.
Can't believe no one has commented on this song yet. Freakin awesome song.
this is a great song to open the new cd with. i think it talks about all the corruption and fakeness of today's society and wondering if we can still change.
I agree. I only have this CD and ssotcc but on both of them, the opening track seems to take a lot more from the hardcore roots than the tracks that follow them.
"this is noise" no shit, but still a good song
i love this songggg.
Who cares no one had commented on the fucken song, the cd even come out yet.
i donno what it means but im almost postive its about how he feels we are lettignt he planet down?