War and avarice describe today's government pretty well. The lust for war and control, as well as greed. The reason we fight and lie awake at night is because of the political unrest that goes on. Come attrition. We need a smaller hand governing us. The bride is quiet because of all the secrecy behind the closed doors of congress.
The bride is also of unquiet things such as wars and oppression. We will fight the archers and the infantry to defend our rights to live and be human beings. When we die, we will die free with our arms unbound because we are free once again. So bring it on big government. Push us too far and come hell, we will take our freedoms back from you. That's how I see it : mrshotglass on February 22, Link. General Comment A simple, yet powerful song that everyone seems to be insistently reading into about love and shadowy government politics though the former does make an appearance.
At ground level, it's about sacrifice in the face of adversity and the driving force behind those that make the ultimate sacrifice. Its about standing up in the face of oppression and certain death and fighting back. Better to die with your arms unbound, rather than living a slave.
At it's heart, it's a patriotic song. It's about maintaining the freedoms that all too many Americans have come to take for granted. Only until it's gone do we realize what we've lost. Awesome song. I agree with this interpretation TheDirge on April 03, So the song is really about hardships of a people, the revolution of a people. Our people. The "Come hell" is about that if we don't fight against such things, war will break out, the world will spiral into a deeper pit of hell than it's already in.
My Interpretation "When we die We will die with our arms unbound" Created an account just to note that, though people are suggesting that this line is about love, it's clearly about the willingness to sacrifice in order to attain freedom. And commitment to one's freedom even in the face of danger and the likelihood of sustaining personal harm. And yearning for freedom. To me, it seems a little overwrought in the context of the US, though I suspect this is what he had in mind as well.
Not that I'm unconcerned about the loss of some civil liberties in the US, but it doesn't resonate very much. But I can see this in the context of social movements--social movements happening now as well as historical social movements.
And people committed to living and dying as free and emancipated subjects. In another context, it was a very timely song given recent events in Egypt and Tunisia--and given other uprisings in the Middle East and Maghreb. It makes me think of the martyrs who died in those countries fighting to live and die with their "arms unbound.
General Comment My take on this song was that it was about the endless fight against oppression and tyranny. In the video the older kids were oppressing the younger kids, rationing food, dehumanizing them; and the breaking point was when they punished that girl, the kid with the glasses sweetheart. In my mind the lyrics were saying come the war, come the avarice, come the reek of bones, come hell, in the fight for freedom against a tyrannical and oppressive power, hence the "when we die we will die with our arms unbound" meaning that they will die free peoples and not slaves.
Also, did anyone notice the parallel to the American Revolution? The main grown up kid was wearing what looked to me a British military red coat uniform as worn during the time period, while the kid with the glasses who snapped and rose up with the flag was wearing a sort of blue American continental army uniform worn during the time.
General Comment I have an interpretation that is very similar to the one by pt, and it hit me like a bolt out of the blue when they were playing the song at the gym the other day. It's a good show and I have to admit that if I flip past the reruns on cable I am stuck on the couch all afternoon. Anyway, there was one episode actually titled "Why We Fight".
By this time in the series, the Germans were pretty much whipped and the war was starting to wind down. As the pace of the action slowed the soldiers had time to start thinking about what is the point of war and was it all worth it.
They were tired and burned out. Then one of the soldiers, out on patrol, stumbles across a concentration camp set up outside of the village. When they go to investigate they are met face to face with the horror, "the reek of bones". As they try to process what they are seeing, the incomprehensible evil that they have exposed, they realize why they are there and why their sacrifice was not in vain. There is one scene where the commanding officer walks into the camp and this ragged skeleton of a man walks up to him and hugs him.
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Playlist Share. Come the war, come the avarice Come the war, come hell Come attrition, come the reek of bones Come attrition, come hell. And this is why, why we fight, why we lie awake This is why, this is why we fight When we die we will die with our arms unbound This is why, this is why we fight, come hell. Bride of quiet, bride of all unquiet things Bride of quiet, bride of hell Come the archers, come the infantry Come the archers of hell.
This is why, why we fight, why we lie awake This is why, this is why we fight And when we die we will die with our arms unbound This is why, this is why we fight, come hell, come hell. This is why, why we fight, why we lie awake This is why, this is why we fight When we die we will die with our arms unbound This is why, this is why we fight.
So come to me, come to me now, lay your arms around me This is why, this is why we fight, come hell, come hell.
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