Five Finger Death Punch: Generation Dead Meaning

Generation Dead Lyrics

I look around and all I see is evil
Walking dead disguised as real people
It’s kill or be killed because life is not forever
It comes apart and then it falls together

I am what you made me
Til death do I part
It’s the world I’ve grown to...

1. anonymous

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   May 30th 2012 !⃝

   the band is expressing how fucked up this world is. its full of thieves etc.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 8th 2012 !⃝

   2 Topics: Selfishness of men, Meaninglessness of life
   
   "I look around and all I see is evil" => Man against man => egoistic
   
   -"Walking dead disguised as real people" => Walking Dead=Men, no emotion, corresponds to zombies/zombie movies, just want to eat human flesh; Disguised as real people=behave as if they care about each other, BUT: indicates that there are people with values, or have been => decadent, the reason why he "does not want it anymore"?
   
   -"kill or be killed" => rules of our world, you have to fight to stand your ground, you have to harm other people, when you want to live
   
   -"cuz life is not forever"= confined time to live
   
   -"it comes apart and then it falls together"= equality when everything's destroyed, or: does not matter, because things will come apart anyway
   
   -"i am what you made me" = does not want to be like the others/upper class, but is forced to adapt when he wants to survive, contrast to: you are what you are, means: people in higher positions like the society how it is, because they benefit from it
   
   -"till death do i part"="till death do us part" -> marriage= "married" to the world = has to deal with it, nothing will change
   
   -Chorus: Tells us that he does not want this world, but does not mean that he wants to die, wants to live, but not in that world "forced to live", "grown to know"
   
   -Generation Dead => Decadence -> clarified by "we" -> indicates: not every man
   
   -"you see yourself as such a fucking shepard" -> again: act like they (maybe the government or else) care about the people
   
   -"but you trip the blind"= exploitation of people
   
   -"curse the leper" = accuse people who arent compliant
   
   -"do you really want my true opinion"=refers to democracy, that everyone has the right to utter his opinion, "do you really?"=are you sure? Means that the people he adresses maybe do not want to hear what he has to say, or that it won't be heard.
   
   -"youve taken more than youve ever given" – self explaining

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