Music Montage: War and Its Casualties

Hi. I'm Jarred.

This is a Music Montage where several pieces of music that I chose will speak to the various points of the views different people hold about the issue of war. The songs chosen were Civil War by Guns ‘N’ Roses and Burn It Down by Avenged Sevenfold. They both hold strong points of view on the topic of war and of people that surround all, in war and our daily life.

As you read the lyrics, they can clearly represent the struggle between one human and another. These humans have it hard and are in something that is not at all civil. They are fighting more than just a war; they are fighting one another. Humans fight constantly; they find themselves being betrayed and cast out from others because “it feeds the rich while it buries the poor.” Humans without power are the ones that risk their lives.

Along their time in battle, they lose hope because they do not have the help and support from others at every moment. “You're on my back when the water gets too deep for you to breathe, a crutch for you that won't always be there.” War is a battle, but not just between two countries: it is so much more than that, because the humans fight to survive, almost like high school students trying to stay above all, keeping their status as being popular and on top of the pyramid.

Keeping your head up is not an option, because only the strong will survive in the real world. It is not like high school where you can fake your way through the harm you feel from others. Soldiers must trust other soldiers, keep the faith, never doubt anyone, and follow orders to stay out of the “groceries store” of dead soldiers.

There is nothing civil about war; it is a dangerous place full of death, full of lies, full of hatred, breeding of leading and deceiving humans and their lives. These soldiers get led “in a human grocery store” that is always open because war does not stop, not in night, not in morning. You may not mourn those lost, for war does not wait, for “falling away, can't buy back time.”


Lyrics

Civil War by Guns ‘N’ Roses and Burn It Down by Avenged Sevenfold

"What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach...So, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it! Well, he gets it! N' I don't like it any more than you men." * a
I can't trust anyone, witness and see it in my eyes Now I can understand, put faith in you for the last time It's sorrow that feeds your lies Falling away, can't buy back time

I don't need your civil war It feeds the rich while it buries the poor Your power hungry sellin' soldiers In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh

You're on my back when the water gets too deep for you to breath A crutch for you that won't always be there Hide in the dark another day, the fear in you is here to stay So keep the * away from me and learn to trust the words I say

You chose the wrong side (it feels so right)I won't help you, let you rot away (despise what you say) Run towards the light exposing your soul (we won't be there by your side) Salvation's dying (somebody's crying)We're all gone in the end, sweet child we'll miss you No, so far away, far away

My hands are tied For all I've seen has changed my mind But still the wars go on as the years go by With no love of God or human rights 'Cause all these dreams are swept aside By bloody hands of the hypnotized Who carry the cross of homicide And history bears the scars of our civil wars

And I don't need your civil war It feeds the rich while it buries the poor Your power hungry sellin' soldiers In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh I don't need your civil war

Converse behind my back, but now I'm here Need no one to comply with me though everyone that I defeat Don't need you, * camaraderie, this rage will never go away One king to watch the horsemen fall

Look at the hate we're breeding Look at the fear we're feeding Look at the lives we're leading The way we've always done before

I don't need one more war Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway