Rise Against – ‘The black market’

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2014-07-15
Rise Against - 'The black market' (2014)
Portada del disco ‘The black market’ de Rise Against (2014).
Índice de Contenidos
  1. Videoclips
  2. The Black Market EPK
  3. Letras
 

▌ 1. Videoclips

 
I don´t want to be here anymore

Videoclip I don´t want to be here anymore en YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv_cvxAAZ-Y
 
Tragedy + Time

Lyric video Tragedy + Time en YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2YgwN6P_7E
 
People live here

Videoclip People live here en YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqSg2PrJpY
 

▌ 2. The Black Market EPK

Video de Rise Against sobre «The Black Market» EPK en YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNnryb8rEDk
 

▌ 3. Letras

A continuación, las letras de las canciones de The black market de Rise Against.

 
 

1. The great die-off
There’s a fire on the borders and it’s burning down the walls you built high
And there’s a steady stream of anger and it’s spilling from the coasts
A tidal wave

And the words say we reap what we sow
So where I bury you I’ll build my home
In line to reclaim but we’re sick of the wait

We want it all and we want it now
Tonight I watched your fires burn out
The cold dead hands we pried these guns from are yours
We want it all and we want it now
A tide is coming to drown you out
We make ourselves at home while your body’s still warm

Tradition tethers us to rituals and
Are we all just clocks on wrong times?
And something triggers each and every time I hear you say
«God bless this place»

But your numbers are dwindling now
Though endangered we’ll still hunt you down
With heads on a stake long may you reign

We want it all and we want it now
Tonight I watched your fires burn out
The cold dead hands we pried these guns from are yours
We want it all and we want it now
A tide is coming to drown you out
We make ourselves at home while your body’s still warm

And there’s a fire on the borders and it’s burning down the walls you built high
And there’s a steady stream of anger and it’s spilling from the coasts
A tidal wave

We want the motherfucking world and we want it now
Tonight I watched your fires burn out
The cold dead hands we pried these guns from are yours

No I don’t want to wait
I know a better way
So step aside, come on or better yet just go away
Our chance has finally come
There might not be another one now
No we’re not gonna wait
We want it now
Yeah we’re dousing the flames
We want it now
*

 

2. I don’t want to be here anymore
On pins and needles we are waiting for the fall
We count the days scratching lines on the wall
Wait in the wings at someone’s beck and call

No longer recognize the place that I call home
No longer recognize this face as my own
Somewhere, this fate, I lost control

We backed down
We took no for answers far too long
We felt those walls close around

I don’t want to be here anymore
I don’t want to be here anymore

I don’t want to be here anymore (be here anymore)
I know there’s nothing left worth staying for
Your paradise is something I’ve endured
See I don’t think I can fight this anymore (fight this anymore)
I’m listening with one foot out the door
And something has to die to be reborn
I don’t want to be here anymore

On hand and foot we answered every single call
And weathered every day like passing storms
But when they break, we will all be gone

Won’t back down
Won’t take no for answers anymore
These walls close, we pace back and forth

I don’t want to be here anymore (be here anymore)
I know there’s nothing left worth staying for
Your paradise is something I’ve endured
See I don’t think I can fight this anymore (fight this anymore)
I’m listening with one foot out the door
But something has to die to be reborn
I don’t want to be here anymore

The point where we break gets closer everyday
But where do we go?
But where do we go?

I don’t want to be here anymore
I don’t want to be here anymore

I don’t want to be here anymore (be here anymore)
I know there’s nothing left worth staying for
Your paradise is something I’ve endured
See I don’t think I can fight this anymore (fight this anymore)
I’m listening with one foot out the door
But something has to die to be reborn
I don’t want to be here anymore

(We need a better way)
(We need to let go)

Anymore

(We need a better way)
(We need to let go)
(We need a better way)
*

 

3. Tragedy + Time
On the edges of the sharpest knives
In the middle of the darkest nights
Always knew that I would find you here
In a puddle of the bravest tears

I’ve seen enough to know it’s lonely where you are
Above the crowd
Feet dangling from a rooftop (a rooftop)
She waits from ledges for a voice to talk her down

And nothing matters but the pain when you’re alone
The never-ending nights when you’re awake
When you’re praying that tomorrow it’s okay

There will be a time to crack another smile
Maybe not today or for awhile
But we’re holding on to laugh again some day
To laugh again some day

All that matters is the time we had
Doesn’t matter how it all went bad
Never wonder what it might be like
Shut the door, say goodbye

When faced with tragedy
We come alive or come undone

So don’t hold back, let it shape you like an ocean
Even the deepest scars in time will fade

Nothing matters but the pain when you’re alone
Never-ending nights when you’re awake
When you’re praying that tomorrow it’s okay
There will be a time to crack another smile
Maybe not today or for awhile
But we’re holding on to laugh again some day
Yeah, we’re holding on to laugh again some day

And sometimes you have to go back
To know just where you have been
But we’re old enough to know that
What has been, will be again and again

And the bravest of faces
Are the ones where we fake it
In the roles that we play

Nothing matters when the pain is all but gone
When you are finally awake
Despite the overwhelming odds, tomorrow came

And when they see you crack a smile
And you decide to stay a while
You’ll be ready then, to laugh again

Nothing matters but the pain
(We are tragedy, yeah, we are sympathy)
Nothing matters but the pain
You see what you want to see

Nothing matters but the pain
(We are misery, and distant memories)
Nothing matters but the pain
We all learned to laugh again
Yeah, we all learned to laugh again
We all learned to laugh again
*

 

4. The black market
A currency of heartache and sorrow
The air we breathe is stale with mold
To shadows we are slaves digging deeper every day
But emptiness is growing so old

Headlamps light the tunnels we wander
They shimmer and they dance on the walls
We’re lost inside these caves as the chances of escape
Grow slimmer ‘til there’s no chance at all

This ink, it travels from the page
Up my hand and to my veins

Choking on those stories I’ve told
If there are words here left to say
I just want to let you know

I’m falling on my knees right now
I’m covered in the mess I made
These colors used to wash right out
But now they are a part of me
And I’ve been searching for a remedy
When all along it’s been in front of me
I need you here, I need you now
Right now

We traffic in the blackest of markets
Trade misery like diamonds and gold
The angst that we exchange for applause or petty praise
Is finally now taking its toll

But there’s a world above the ground
A life that we can lead
We’re washing off the dirt from our clothes
I don’t want to live without
I just wanna let you know

I’m falling on my knees right now
I’m covered in the mess I made
These colors used to wash right out
But now they are a part of me
And I’ve been searching for a remedy
When all along it’s been in front of me

I need you here, I need you now
Right now
Right now

(Black stains) they mark me like a letter
(Won’t fade) cracking under the pressure
(Black stains) nothing stays gold

There’s a world above the ground
A life that we can lead
But we’re lost deep down in these holes
And I’ve seen the way out
Now I just want to let you know

I’m falling on my knees right now (black stains)
I’m covered in the mess I made (won’t fade)
These colors used to wash right out (black stains)
But now they are a part of me
And I’ve been searching for a remedy
When all along it’s been in front of me
Your voice it washes the stains away
(Wash the stains away)
Woo oh oh oh
(Wash the stains away)
*

 

5. The eco-terrorist in me
Spray paint the cameras, jam the frequency,

What you kill, just comes alive in me,
Hoods and bandanas make not an enemy,
You can’t define us, any way you please!

You make the rules, we make the calls
My conscience clean, my sins absolved

Because I found God (hey!)
In the sound of your factories burning down,
Now I sleep so sound…

When it all comes down, will you say you did everything you could?
When it all comes down, can you say that you never gave up?
Were you standing by to watch it fall away?
Will you hold on or let it go?

Instead of doing what’s right, they built higher walls
Where we can’t shed a light on true criminals
When business and suffering is one and the same
When laws fail the people they turn to the flame

I found love (love!)
I found life (life!)
As a thorn stuck in your side,
And you wonder why…

When it all comes down, will you say you did everything you could?
When it all comes down, can you say that you never gave up?
Were you standing by to watch it fall away?

Will you hold on? (Will you hold on?)
Did you hold on or just let it fall?
Did you let it fall?

When it all comes down, will you say you did everything you could?
When it all comes down, can you say that you never gave up?
When it all comes down, will you say you did everything you could?

When it all comes down,
When it all comes down…

When the lights all blow out, and roadblocks blow up,
When you sleep to the sound of alarms going off
When it all comes down, will you say you did everything you could?
*

 

6. Sudden life
Floating in the clouds, I’m giving up the fight
A voice is calling out, I’m walking into the light

We used to race a thousand miles a day so fast
Feet they barely even touched the ground
We used to fly to places out beyond our own little world
The fury and the sound

I saw it flicker like a television set
Bright flashes of a warning sign
Flipping channels in a world gone static
Eroding away line by the fading line

Under water for years we found, till we started to swim than drown
The current takes us, now we’re walking into the light

Are you dying all your life? (Walking into the light)
(Walking into the light)
Broken, beat and tired out (Walking into the light)
You want to live but don’t know how (Walking into the light)
Diagnosis: sudden life (Walking into the light)
(Walking into the light)
Can no one revive me now?
Feels like I’m walking into the light

Woke up floating on a wave of golden sound
Tunnel vision and a great beyond
Heart beating like a rhythm slowing down
And it’s gone, an echo of a song

Flat line and a closing bell
Whisper a warm farewell
The flames are beckoning
As we’re walking into the light

Are you dying all your life? (Walking into the light)
(Walking into the light)
Broken, beat and tired out (Walking into the light)
You want to love but don’t know how (Walking into the light)
Diagnosis: sudden life (Walking into the light)
(Walking into the light)
Can no one revive me now?
Feels like I’m walking into the light

Don’t suppose that you know the way?
Don’t suppose that you care?
I see lights up ahead and hear choirs of angels ring in my ears
But you know that, had you a choice, you would go back and do it again
We all have unfinished business to tend

So no I won’t go gentle
Into the good night
You can keep your candle
I’m walking away from the light
Yeah I’m walking away from the light
I’m walking away from the light
I’m walking away from the light
I’m walking away from the light

Diagnosis: sudden life (Walking away from the light)
(Walking away from the light)
I woke up my heart racing, I’m (Walking away from the light)
At a loss explaining why (Walking away from the light)
Are you dying all your life? (Walking away from the light)
(Walking away from the lightt)
Then put your darkest days behind
Let life flash right before your eyes (Walking away from the light)
And for very the first time,
It feels like I’m walking away from the light
*

 

7. A beautiful indifference
There’s a struggle coming, but to conquer, first they must divide.
The machines keep humming night and day.
How are we so unaware,
Why are you not afraid?

Protests are drumming while you turn your nose and roll your eyes,
Knee-jerk reactions so ingrained.
Judging from an arm chair.

Cause there is hate and there is love and there is loss,
But there is light and there is dark, then there is us.
And whether this world burns, is none of your concern,
Caught up in a ticker-tape parade.

I have learned to stand up and just to walk away,
Sometimes the cold hearts aren’t worth the love or the hate.
Learn to let go, learn to walk away.
Up from the shadows I’m seduced by the light of the flame,
But this time I’m here to stay.

Gunpowder residue, bright lights and turpentine,
True colors shining through, as we are stripped of our exteriors.

Now, cause there is hate and there is love and there is loss,
But there is right and there is wrong, then there is us.
We’re falling until

We learn to stand up and just to walk away,
Sometimes the cold hearts aren’t worth the love or the hate.
Learn to let go, learn to walk away.
Up from the shadows I’m seduced by the light of the flame,
But this time I’m here to stay.

Feet first into the quicksand, every day we are surrendering,
Never straying from the game plan.
I keep hoping you will take my hand and stand up.

The water’s overflowing, the walls are breaking,
But I know where I’m going, that we can make it.
And there’s a light still glowing and I will chase it.
And I’ve been lost before and I have been led astray,

But this time I’m here to stay.
*

 

8. Methadone
Love like a needle full of methadone
Potent but not real, left you wanting more

Lipstick track marks bleeding wet
Like Montagues and Capulets
For us child the stars refuse to shine
Oh why for us, child, do the stars refuse to shine?

Somewhere strung out on the lam
We wound up back here again
Like unstable chemicals
Combining only to explode

What will it take for you to notice?
I am a heart on fire, and all the world’s a fuse
So don’t get close
Trouble and the worth
Am I better off on my own?

Contaminated, quarantined then left alone
A shipment refused, address unknown
A damaged goods they soon forget
The choking dust that we got left
For us all, the stars refuse to shine

Tap the vein and light the match
We burn like stars before the crash
But for you there’s still a chance
Just let go

What will it take for you to notice?
I am a heart on fire, and all the world’s a fuse
So don’t get close
Trouble and the worth
I’m better off on my own
On my own

Now there’s nowhere to run
And yeah there’s nowhere to hide
There’s nothing under the sun
We haven’t already tried

What will it take for you to notice?
I am a hand grenade, pin already pulled so don’t let go
As we chase the sun my shadow slows us down
And without me along, you’re better off and I know
You’re better off and I know
And I know
*

 

9. Zero visibility
Settling in here for the long haul
Can’t hide forever is what they say
In with the wind, out with a bang
Meanwhile nothing has changed

With each word slowly uttered
A storm brews in her eyes
A missed shot at the buzzard
Time, whether wasted
Or well-spent, is still time

We are not brave, we are not wise
We stand at the end of the longest lines
But we stand here all together
We have been damned, we have survived
We came back to homes we don’t recognize
But we return here all together

Moments of clarity here are short-lived
Bled through the bandages again
When is a lie no longer white
But black as a day without sun

Passed out in a gutter
Woke up in your arms
Nursed back and recovered
The same touch that heals me
Left a scar

We are not brave, we are not wise
We stand at the end of the longest lines
But we stand here all together
We have been damned, we have survived
We came back to homes we don’t recognize
But we return here all together

And the world works in ways that I never have claimed to know
We got out in front of the weather but it followed
The view from here isn’t better but it’s all we know
It’s all we know

We are not brave, we are not wise
We stand at the edge of the border lines
But we stand here all together
We have been damned, we have survived
Who we’ve become you won’t recognize
But we became them all together
All together
*

 

10. Awake too long
I watched the rise and the fall of the common man
I lived to see your steps walk back
I watched the walls all crash down, crumbling
Just to be rebuilt while we slept

We threw swords in the oceans wide and deep
We promise peace but the peace won’t last
‘Cause now we forge new blades so nervously
Waiting for this harmony to pass

I stand guard and roam
Like a sentinel
I see it all

I’ve been awake too long
Wish there was something that could close my eyes
To all that I see
Awake too long
It would be easier to fall asleep

We fell in love but the love kept running out
We follow roads but the roads all end
We lived and learned, and learned to live without
Falling from the ladders we ascend

I’ve seen the eyes of the widows left behind
I’ve seen the child of a fallen man
And never once did our leaders apologize
For battles they began

I can’t look away or pretend not to see
And so I say

I’ve been awake too long
Wish there was something that could close my eyes
To all that I see
Awake too long
It would be easier to fall asleep

Asleep

Maybe I would dream if I could sleep
Maybe I’d see what this could be
Instead of what it is
And is there bliss in ignorance?
Is this our demise we can’t prevent?
Should we fall asleep?

I’ve been awake too long
I’ve been awake too long
I’ve been awake too long
I’ve been awake too long

(I’ve been awake too long) And like constant vigils we all
(I’ve been awake too long) Carry eternal flames
(I’ve been awake too long) I’m saturate pains to an open heart
(I’ve been awake too long) But through it all
Every single cut I’ve been awake
*

 

11. People live here
My God is better than yours
And the walls of my house are so thick
I hear nothing at all

I followed you out in the storm
But it carried you off
And I burned every picture of yours
Was that not enough?

My gun is bigger than yours
So let’s arm the masses
And see what the bastards do then
Walking tall once set us apart
Now we’re down on all fours
Do you cry my name in the dark
Like I do yours?

These storms are getting stronger now
Trusses all bend and sway
Lightning hits, the power goes out in the fray
As the waves crash high
And the shoreline disappears
I will scream to the sky
«Hey, people live here.»

My dreams are not unlike yours
They long for the safety
And break like a glass chandelier
But there’s laughter and oh there is love
Just past the edge of our fears
And there’s chaos when push comes to shove
But it’s music to my ears

May you be in Heaven before the Devil knows you’re dead
May these winds be always at your back

‘Cause when we’re all just ghosts
And the madness overtakes us
We will look at the ashes
And say, «People lived here.»

From the penthouse to the holy martyr
Sea to shining sea
From the coffins full of kindergarteners
Is this what you call free?
From the hate that drips from all your crosses
Are your hands so clean?

There’s a wildfire and it’s spreading far
From sea to shining sea

When we’re all just ghosts
And the madness overtakes us
I will scream to the sky, yeah I’ll scream to the sky
Yeah I’ll scream to the sky
«Hey, people live here.»
*

 

12. Bridges
In a world of uncertainty
The night sky told us all to be patient
But when the ground started shaking
I wondered for how long?

But there’s a place that I’d rather be
And there a voice deep inside of me
Saying the progress we are making
Is not progress at all

Into a world of promises, whoa
Is where we let ourselves be led

We built the bridges
We now sleep under
We framed the doorways
But may not pass through
The very same roads
That we now wander
The ones you pass us by on
We paved with our bare hands
Paved with our bare hands

A black cloud hovers over me
But without all this guilt I feel naked
Something about the way it
Wraps it’s arms around

White snow covers everything
An angel watches over me praying
She asks me for a favor
«Catch me if I fall»
A rush of blood straight to the head
I wonder what this could have been

We built the bridges
We now sleep under
We framed the doorways
But may not pass through
The very same roads
That we now wander
The roads you pass us by on
We paved with our bare hands
Paved with our bare hands
Hey!

No I never meant to hurt you
No I never meant to do you wrong
I stood waiting but
A man said move along

We laid the tracks down
But now they’ve rotted
And like a runaway train
We brace for the crash
We were in love once
Have you forgotten?
And like a runaway train
Bearing down upon a gap

We built the bridges (brace for the crash)
(Built from their hypocrisy)
We built the bridges (brace for the crash)
(Built from their hypocrisy)
We built the bridges (brace for the crash)
(Built from their hypocrisy)
We built the bridges (brace for the crash)
And underneath their
Shadows we now live
*

 

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