Imagine Dragons: Ready Aim Fire Meaning
Ready Aim Fire Lyrics
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#1 top rated interpretation:I feel this song relates to war from a soldiers perspective. I know it was written for Iron man 3, but I personally feel this song has something more to it.
"With our backs to the wall, darkness will fall" from a soldiers point of view could mean that although they are pinned down, they will keep fighting so the "darkness will fall" the darkness being the enemy.
"An empire falls in just one day, you close your eyes and the glory fades"
Shows that although there has been a victory and there is the initial relief of being alive, that soon wears off and you think back on it and realise what you have done to gain that victory, and who got hurt because of your actions, and how it changed you as a person.
The way "Ready, Aim, Fire" is sung, it sounds almost desperate, like there is one chance left, and it sounds almost resigned to the fact this could be the last shot you get to make.
"We don't have a choice to stay
We'd rather die than do it your way"
Sounds like a soldier who has been badly wounded and captured and doesn't have a chance at living but would rather be gone than captured.
"How come I've never seen your face 'round here?
I know every single face 'round here
A man on a mission, changing the vision
I was never welcome here." Makes it sound like the point of view of a sniper who is scanning the town and seeing someone he hasn't seen before, who could be a threat.
"Back in the casing, shaking and pacing
This is the tunnel's light
Blood in the writing, stuck in the fighting
Look through the rifle's sight"
Also supports the theory that it is about battle as "shaking and pacing" could be from battle nerves, and the lines "Blood in the writing, stuck in the fighting
Look through the rifle's sight" makes it sound like a sniper has been pinned and his team is dying and he is trying to make shots.
This whole theme also relates to Iron Man 3, as Tony is desperate to stay alive for Pepper, but the arc reactor is failing him so he is pinned down but still desperately trying to save everyone. He starts to make reckless decisions but still only wants the best. -
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#2 top rated interpretation:This song to me is about a rebellion. Perhaps a rebellion against the evil things in the world people just accept. But in the song he's helping to rebel against evil (after all, this song was made for ironman 3) "off in the distance, there is a resistance, bubbling and festering." So that means a rebellion is starting."a man on a mission, changing the vision, I was never welcome here" so he is basically saying that he wants to change the world for the better and defeat evils, but people are basically slaves and too afraid to stand up for what they think is right, so they just go with it. However, since he stands out and won't put up with wrongdoing, people look at him as an outsider and they look down on him for standing up against evil. - songmeanings
I have no time to make an opinion for this song.
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#3 top rated interpretation:Its about being under attack, but not necessarily the war reference - it's an analogy. Everything they've gained or won, its all about to be lost(fade away). This guy is an outcast or the odd one, but he's somehow influenced everyone to act the way he wants them to.but now someone else has stirred up a rebellion and now everyone's against him. Now he and his friends are cornered with nowhere to go - defeat is imminent but he'd rather die than submit
I helped write this song I should know ;) -
I think that this song is about making one last stand. The lyrics could be pointing to fighting a war, or just life in general.
"With our backs to the wall, the darkness with fall. We never quite thought we could lose it all"- Even when you're backed into a corner, when you've lost everything, evil will still fall victim to justice. No matter what.
"Empires' fall in just one day"- Circumstances can change overnight. You could go to bed one night, and wake up next day with the world falling apart.
"Read Aim Fire, Ready Aim Fire Away."- Give it everything you have. Leave everything out there, even if it means meeting the end.
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its about beijing uprising in the cold war and how people stood in front of tanks to stop them as the soldiers held guns at them and thertern to shoot as they fought for thre freedom
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This was my answer before I created an account.
"With our backs to the wall, the darkness will fall. We never quite thought we could lose it all"
Even if you are at the brink of destruction, you will keep fighting, and you don't believe in truly losing.
"Off in the distance, there is resistance, bubbling up and festering"
Your sacrifice is starting to be heard and is spreading hope and rebellion OR you can see, in the future, that there will be another uprising.
"An empire's fall in just one day, you close your eyes and the glory fades"
All that has happened, happened so fast, in the course of just one day. You have finally defeated the darkness, and you are celebrating, but when you close your eyes and are alone, you realize just how much you've lost to get here. -
"With our backs to the wall, the darkness will fall. We never quite thought we could lose it all"
Even if you are at the brink of destruction, you will keep fighting, and you don't believe in truly losing.
"Off in the distance, there is resistance, bubbling up and festering"
Your sacrifice is starting to be heard and is spreading hope and rebellion OR you can see, in the future, that there will be another uprising.
"An empire's fall in just one day, you close your eyes and the glory fades"
All that has happened, happened so fast, in the course of just one day. You have finally defeated the darkness, and you are celebrating, but when you close your eyes and are alone, you realize just how much you've lost to get here. -
The lyrics of this song, in my opinion, refer to the failed attempts at revolt, those protesting and fighting, risking their lives for change. The chorus seems to be referencing a military execution as an attempt to control the resistance, with the prisoner/narrator remarking how they didn’t think that they themselves could fall, but in the beginning of verse 1, it references the igniting and spark of protest “off in the distance, there is resistance, bubbling up and festering”, creating a sense that although the leaders of the protest may be arrested and executed by the ruling authority, they can do nothing to stop the rise of change and the unity of the people.
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I feel like this song is more or less about rebellion. Specifically the rebellion of Lucifer to god. For example when they say " I was never welcome here
We don't have the choice to stay
We'd rather die than". I think this in a sense is how Lucifer was never actually normal in terms of archangels and heaven,etc. As well as the thought that the angels who rebelled was cast out of heaven and force to stay on earth. and then finally "We never quite thought
We could lose it all." I think this about the pride aspect and how Lucifer and the angels overestimated themselves believing that they could take down heaven and god.
P.s. I am not christian it is simply something that i do find similarities in and interesting.
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Yes, I know it’s from ironman, but it could be a possible future for good ole America. Just saying what came to me when I first heard it.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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I think it's about the fall of an empire when it says you close your eyes and the glory fades I interpret it as when you die the glory of your great empire falls
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I think it is an analogy for struggle, particularly involving actual fighting. Yet ID has said in statements that not all of their songs have definitive meanings. It's art, make your own opinions :)
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I personally think the song is a rebellion song. "we'd rather die than do it your way..."
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I think it does mean the revolutionary war because an empires falling in just one day, which the British had a great empire with king George. And the beginning has the sound of cannons and sounds like bayonets clashing and If you check the history of the war with certain acts such as taxes with tea, paper, and sugar or perhaps the intolerable acts which caused the colonists to rebel against the empire and this could be the battle of the Delaware river when Washington crossed it and they fought the British to push them out. And maybe the tunnels light could be the musket barrel to eliminate British troops and territories. So they did not want to be treated like the British are treating them so they fought.
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I think it does mean the revolutionary war because an empires falling in just one day, which the British had a great empire with king George. And the beginning has the sound of cannons and sounds like bayonets clashing and If you check the history of the war with certain acts such as taxes with tea, paper, and sugar or perhaps the intolerable acts which caused the colonists to rebel against the empire and this could be the battle of the Delaware river when Washington crossed it and they fought the British to push them out. And maybe the tunnels light could be the musket barrel to eliminate British troops and territories.
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I think it does mean the revolutionary war because an empires falling in just one day, which the British had a great empire with king George. And the beginning has the sound of cannons and sounds like bayonets clashing and If you check the history of the war with certain acts such as taxes with tea, paper, and sugar or perhaps the intolerable acts which caused the colonists to rebel against the empire and this could be the battle of the Delaware river when Washington crossed it and they fought the British to push them out. And maybe the tunnels light could be the musket barrel to eliminate British troops and territories
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