[ti:Survivor Guilt]
[ar:Rise Against]
[al:Endgame]
[00:00.00]Rise Against - Survivor Guilt
[00:01.44]Album: Endgame
[00:03.33]Released on 14th March 2011
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[00:06.68]"What are you talking about?
[00:07.99]America isn't going to be destroyed"
[00:09.63]
[00:10.65]"Never?"
[00:12.87]
[00:16.80]"Rome was destroyed
[00:18.79]Greece was destroyed
[00:20.09]Persia was destroyed
[00:22.11]Spain was destroyed
[00:24.35]All great countries are destroyed
[00:27.00]Why not yours?
[00:29.18]How much longer do you really think
[00:30.97]Your own country will last?"
[00:32.63]
[00:34.36]"Forever?"
[00:35.39]
[00:42.56]Block the entrances, close the doors
[00:46.02]
[00:49.41]Seal the exits cuz this is war
[00:52.81]
[00:56.27]All gave some, some gave all
[00:59.61]But for what I wanna know
[01:02.43]
[01:02.94]Carry on, don't mind me
[01:06.25]All I gave was everything
[01:09.38]And yet you ask me for more
[01:14.49]
[01:15.99]Fought your fight
[01:17.62]Bought your lie
[01:19.25]In return I lost my life
[01:22.77]What purpose does this serve?
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[01:38.42]A fallen figure, burn the heart
[01:42.61]
[01:45.74]A family all but torn apart
[01:49.53]
[01:52.57]And I fought with courage to preserve
[01:56.32]Not my way of life but yours
[01:59.16]
[01:59.67]Carry on, don't mind me
[02:02.91]All I gave was everything
[02:06.06]And yet you ask me for more
[02:11.18]
[02:12.67]Fought your fight
[02:14.28]Bought your lie
[02:15.95]In return I lost my life
[02:19.67]What purpose does this serve?
[02:24.86]
[02:36.77]The campers reaching battered stones
[02:38.44]With words that turn the cameras off
[02:39.90]But once it meant, just fuck them up
[02:41.49]Cuz freedom isn't free
[02:42.78]They send our daughters and our sons
[02:44.34]Deserts under burning sons
[02:45.79]Sacrificial slaughtering
[02:47.17]To fill the pockets of the weak
[02:49.96]I'm not official in the way
[02:55.21]Are we so easily deceived?
[03:00.61]
[03:05.37]They carry on
[03:08.74]
[03:11.29]"You're a shameful opportunist!
[03:14.21]What you don't understand is that
[03:15.08]It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
[03:18.60]You have it backwards
[03:21.04]It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees"
[03:24.03]
[03:24.53]Don't carry on
[03:26.38]Just walk away
[03:27.88]How many more sent to their graves
[03:31.17]In this lasting war?
[03:35.78]
[03:36.69]I fought your fight
[03:38.28]Bought your lie
[03:39.82]In return I lost my life
[03:43.01]What purpose does this serve?
[03:49.06]What purpose did I serve?
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