21 Guns - Green Day

Sometimes at the oddest moment you find inspiration, or you find the strength to do what you've needed to do for days, weeks or months. Sometimes you're doing what you think is right, and you think that you're being strong, but really you're being weak. Sometimes you know everyone around you is right, but just taking the decision that will let them know they're right is the hardest thing to do! And so you do the opposite of what they want, even if it is the opposite of what you want, and you think it's strength, but really it's weakness and stubborness and ignorance, and most of all, pride! Good ol' stinking pride gets you every time.



I want to post the lyrics to this song, 21 Guns, and I hereby want to personally thank Green Day for helping me in my personal life yet again, and for breaking my pride just when it needed it most.



21 Guns

Do you know what's worth fighting for,
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away
And you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Did someone break your heart inside?
You're in ruins

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

When you're at the end of the road
And you lost all sense of control
And your thoughts have taken their toll
When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul
Your faith walks on broken glass
And the hangover doesn't pass
Nothing's ever built to last
You're in ruins.

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

Did you try to live on your own
When you burned down the house and home?
Did you stand too close to the fire?
Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

When it's time to live and let die
And you can't get another try
Something inside this heart has died
You're in ruins.

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

by Green Day


Their present album 21st Century Breakdown focuses on exactly that, the 21st century breakdown, and hits on political and global issues. This song in particular seems to me to be referring to pointless wars and other pointless acts: "Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone"


The lines that really spoke to me personally tonight were:
"Do you know what's worth fighting for,when it's not worth dying for" and
"Lay down your arms, give up the fight."

I love this song. Have a listen here and be judge for yourself. It may just seem a song to you now, but at some point, some day it will just hit you and its relevance will be real to you then, if not now.