4.19.2011

Song 59: Prayer For The Refugee, Rise Against

Mosh pits were so much fun in college. 

The verses of this Rise Against song are a bit scattered but that's alright by me. There could be more than one narrator in Prayer For The Refugee but it works as well if there's just one: a weary father talking to his tired son, who's also a slave wage worker thinking out loud about the people who have so much while he has so little, who then wakes his son and tells him they won't suffer in silence any more. And each verse is interrupted by a chorus that's an angry shove against people who might give a helping hand once in a while but just let the narrator down again.