Rise Against: Make it Stop (September's Children) Meaning
Song Released: 2011
Make it Stop (September's Children) Lyrics
Bang bang go the coffin nails, like a breath exhaled,
Then gone forever.
It seems like just yesterday, how did I miss the red flags raise?
Think back, the days we laughed.
We braved these bitter storms together.
Brought to...
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This song isn't just about gay rights. It's about putting a stop to all bullying. All of those kids weren't gay, however they were all bullied. Nobody, especially kids deserve to feel that alone and hopeless because they are different. R.I.P.
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English is not my native language, so im sorry if i make a mistake.
my brother told me about this song and my mum knew it and told me the music video was really heavy. I watched it and cried. I listened to the song for another hour and everytime cried a little at some point. At the moment I write this its that hour later.
I hope people hearing this will gather their tongues. -
Did they deliberatly put in the line "bang bang from the closet walls" as a link to the saying "coming out of the closet"
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when they say "what God would damn a heart? What God drove us apart? What God could...?" i do not believe they are saying God doesnt exist or that He is wrong, just questioning the "God" used to justify such hatred and creulity. For what God would create a thing just to condem it? or hate his children for being the way he made them? they are saying that these people are using their "God" as an exuse for their wrong doings.
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I think Rise Angaist also point out that ppl shouldnt kill themselves cos the kids in the music vid decide against it after seeing what theyve got left to amplish in life.
i sometimes get builied for being gay even though i'm not just cause i go to an all-girls shcool even though iv never even considered suicide i can see why some people would but you should talk to someone befor it gets that bad.
(Wait, NINE boys killed themselves in SEPTEMBER ALONE and they are totlay un-related!!! that has got to be the most depressing news i have ever herd...) -
Blaming God is not an answer to the bullying and people's beliefs. Bullying happens all the, and it's tragic when people are pushed to suicide to break free from it. I'm a believer in Jesus Christ, and nowhere in the people does it support the bullying of people into believing what we believe. It's these people that give Christianity, a believe in loving others despite their new beliefs, and sharing Christ by example. Christ never did this, he hung out with lepors and the outcasts, he loved them. I agree we need to "Make it Stop" and let people choose for themselves. It is not up to us to change people's views on things, but to set the example and not force anyone into anything.
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if it wasnt for P.O.D.'s Youth of the nation or Rise Against's Make It Stop i would not be here on this earth today, for that i thank both bands for helping keep me alive. I've been bullied for being a ranga and people thinking im gay, at the age of 8 i felt like killing myself coz i couldnt take it anymore, then my dad played youth of the nation for me and i bursted into tears just like i am now, coz i was letting out all of the anger. i know im not the only kid who has felt the same way. So all i have to say to rise against and P.O.D. is THANK YOU FOR KEEPING ME ALIVE I HOPE TO LIVE TILL IM A FUCKING MILLION YEARS OLD.
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Tim McIlrath said it was mainly about the suicides, and it's also about how everybody has flaws. Watch the music video. It's graphic, but it gets the point across very well.
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I think this song is about kids how were bullied because they were gay so wat I'm bisexual so you are going to say that I should not be ali ve beacuase of it then you shouldn't be on earth your the one who should die not me I'm the real perfect one not you I digress we should stop bullieing in its tracks I maybe 14 but I have a voice I'm ridicualed every day if it wasn't for my firends I would be in a song or something I'm lucky I've got people who care plz help go to the website they haVe in their video your donation help with counsiling life gets better trust me I know.
Haters make you
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I'm gay myself and I believe it is a song both about how a lot of young people in the world treats gay teens but also about how it is for the gay teens. It's a hard life and I once considered to end it all, but the girl that has now been mine for almost three years saved me, and she also told me I saved her.
Even now we stuggle with bullies, but it really does get easier, just like the song sais. Great song -
It is definitely about stopping bullying (of anyone, straight or gay, or just different) and the fact that there is a tomorrow if you can just hold on long enough. The video is supposed to be out soon and it shows that powerful message loud and clear. you will get chills watching it.
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While it's about being bullied, I have to point out to the person who said "It's not about being gay". Yes, it is.
"Eighteen years pushed to the ledge." The 18 years refers to the beginning of the "Dont Ask, Don't Tell" policy in the United States, starting in 1993 from President Bill Clinton. And it more obviously expressed in the lyrics, "Of children shamed for those they chose to kiss." While all the children who committed suicide may not have been gay, they were bullied because people thought they might be gay. -
Actually, there lyrics aren't entirely complete. After you hear the guy talking say "Seth Walsh, age 13" he still says a few mire names. I can barely hear it, but I do hear the guy say age 14 at one point, and you also still hear him talking a little bit more. I can't understand him though.
From the September gay suicides in 2010, there were still more victims (4, to be exact), and one of them was age 14.
Asher Brown (13) Raymond Chase (19) Felix Sacco (17) & Caleb Nolt (14) -
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