System of a Down: Sad Statue Meaning

Sad Statue Lyrics

Conquest to the lover,
And your love to the fire,
Permanence unfolding in the absolute.

Forgivness is
The ultimate sacrifice.
Eloquence belongs,
To the conqueror.

The pictures of time and space are rearranged,
In this little piece of...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 11th 2007 !⃝

   this song could be about the genocide. The sad statue may not be a reference to the actualy 'statue of liberty' but it may just be one of the statues which are in places such as lebanon as a memorial. This song could be about the bullshit countries say when they "support" the genocides occurence, SOAD may be asking do they really care or are they just getting caught up in the publicity?
2. anonymous

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   Oct 19th 2006 !⃝

   Do you know about the jewish holocaust??
   Well, something like that happened with the armenians.
   The turkish soldiers eliminated all armenins that they could becoause they thought that the armenians were useless and that sort of things.
   This armenian holocaust is what the song is about.
   
   "you and me will all go down in history
   whit a sad statue of liberty
   and a generation that didn't agree"
   ---
   the victims will go down in armenian history
   with the statue built in honor of the victims
   and the younger turkish generation that didn't agree in the existence of such massacre
   
   "the pictures of time and space are rearranged
   in this little piece of typical tragedy
   justified candy
   brandy for the nerves
   eloquence belongs to the conqueror"
   -----
   the memories of the tragedy
   justified protest
   things to be thought of
   the world superpowers(north america and europe) will just listen to the turkish version of history
   
   if you noticed, there are little or no records about turkish history of the year 1915.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 19th 2006 !⃝

   I think the song is talking about the end of america and george bush "you and me will all go down in history, with a sad statue of liberty and a generation that didn't agree" I think that its george bush saying "you and me" refering to him and america and the generation that didn't agree is refering to that no one agreed with him and his bullshit
   thats how I saw the song anyway
   :)
4. soad_zack_182

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   May 7th 2006 !⃝

   I think this song is about the statue of liberty looking down upon the America or the world and seeing what it was before an what it has come to
   
   I could be wrong the people above are probably more accurate
   
   zack
5. anonymous

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   May 5th 2006 !⃝

   I believe that this song refers to the 9/11 attacks
   
   "The pictures of time and space are rearranged,
   in this little piece of typical tragedy."
   This may refer to how people view the world has changed when they saw something they never expected to happen, the twin towers incident.
   
   "You and me will all go down in history, with a sad statue of liberty,
   and a generation that didn't agree."
   I remember seeing pictures of the statue of liberty crying as she watched the towers fall, and 9/11 will go down in history as one of americas most infamous days, just like pearl harbor. The generation that didn't agree may refer to the protesters that despise the war that resulted from the attacks.
   
   "Justified candy, brandy for the nerds, elocuence belongs to the conquerors"
   can represent political figures telling people to fight for them in response to terrorism.
   
   "What is in us that turns our deaf ears to the cries of human suffering"
   might refer to the question of why people (terrorists) would kill innocent people whithout much care.
   
   Thats my interpretation of the song.
6. Metaliger

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   Apr 20th 2006 !⃝

   I may be wrong but I actually think this song is about a child being raped by his father, I'll take you through it:
   
   The first part talks about how the dad has a sexual obssession with the child and how the child is angered by it. It then says how it will last forever, meaning the scars won't fad away, expressed with the word "permanance"
   
   It then talks about how he cannot be forgiven later on. Then it says it's a tradgedy. "Justified candy" is representing first how rapers lead children into there cars (with candy) and the justified part means how the father's actions are justified due to the fact that he brought the child into the world.
   
   Now for the chorus,the first line talks about how the father and son will be in the papers and stuff someday (if his actions get caught). The sad statue of Liberty is the father (or the rapist) sayiong he's a sad old man, the of liberty part as stated earlier is of how his actions would not be punished due to the fact that he basically owns the child. The last line is about how the generation (or the child) is trying to get out of it anyway he can.
   
   "I forgot to let you know" is talking about how rapists lead kids in thyere cars by saying that they have candy but then rape or capture them (not letting them know). Then the last suffering part is self-explanatory.
   
   I don't know, that's just what came to my mind. I'm probably wrong about it though.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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