Rise Against: Kotov Syndrom Meaning

Kotov Syndrom Lyrics

They're high on the watchtower
Keeping the peace.
Whatever that means.
'Cause you see the world through
Cross hairs, and TVs don't you?

Ten foot walls built around us
White picket death
So quiet, so safe.
If we fall there'll be...

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   Feb 5th 2010 !⃝

   Kotov Syndrome:In chess, occurs when a player thinks very hard for a long time in a complicated position but does not find a clear path. The player then notices he is running low on time, and so quickly makes a move, often a terrible one that was not analyzed at all, and loses the game.
   
   This song isn't merely about how fighting can't solve our problems. It's about us not being able to think our way out of a complicated situation, such as hostile relations with another country and coming to a rash decision.

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   Jan 10th 2010 !⃝

   My interpretation is that we as a world can't solve problems without fighting. For example "you see the world through cross hairs and t.v.'s don't you. Also in the chorus, spinning out of control represents not being able to stop what has already started. "Try to recover but collide with each other" backs up my original statement, that we can't solve problems without fighting.
   
   The line "Something I cannot, I was born in a place that lives by the sword... my dreams are of children orphaned by blood spilled at these hands" shows the remorse for killing. It may be that the person thinks his actions were necessary, but still dreads what he has done.
   
   "Here on the graves of the innocent, we raise our flag" simply means they killed innocent people and took there land
   
   "The fate you suffer" that is so much worse than death, would be him having to live with what he has done.
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   Mar 29th 2014 !⃝

   I think this song is about believing what we are told, never questioning things, and never truly seeing the horrors that occur before our own eyes (War, Greed, Poverty, Corruption) "Ten foot walls built around us, white picket death, so quiet so safe" and "You only see the world through Cross-hairs and TVs don't you?"
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   Dec 23rd 2012 !⃝

   My interpretation is that war among other countries creates chaos and death.

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   May 30th 2011 !⃝

   i think it is about being trapped in a prison as the gaurds would "see the world through crosshairs and tv's". it could also mean a being enslaved in a Russian camp as in Black Ops

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