Saving us

Aquí dejo un trabajo que he encontrado navegando por la red en un blog en el que estuve comentando el año pasado para la asignatura de inglés. Debo decir que ADORO a Serj Tankian... Es mi segundo cantante favorito, especialmente por las letras, que no son las típicas canciones de amor, sino van más allá y son todas para analizar, por el hecho de que son quejas hacia la sociedad entre otras muchas cosas. En fin, es una persona muy interesante... 

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SERJ TANKIAN - SAVING US

Why do we sit around and                                          In this part, I think the singer wants us to
Break each others hearts tonight,                   understand that we’re greedy, we just think
Why do we dance around                               about us and we don’t care about the others,
The issues till the morning light,                       even we’re always annoying people, and
When we ­­sit and talk and                                            making more difficult their lives.
Tear each others lives apart.
You were the one to tell me go,                      Here, I understood that he’s talking about
But you were the one for me                                God. God gave hopes to him, but when he
And now you’re going through the door    really needed him (to bring peace to earth,
When you take that step                                       stop pollution and wars…), he realized that
I love you baby more and more             God wasn’t listening to his prayers and wasn’t

We need to laugh and sing and cry                              doing anything for him or this world.

And warm each others hearts tonight,
Observing the fun of everything         
And loving all of mother God,         
Then, as everything goes wrong, the news are care always sad and “we need to laugh and sing”  but we need to cry too; we’re humans. We need to take of the others, and be generous. “Observing the fun  of everything”: you can feel better  when you’re helping someone.                                                                                                                                                

Tearing us, you’re tearing us,                              
You’re breaking us, you’re breaking us,       
You’re killing us, killing us,                               
You’re saving us, you’re saving us,            
You’re tearing us, you’re tearing us,          
You’re breaking us, breaking us,                 
You’re killing us, killing us,                     
You’re saving us.                                         
In this paragraph, he’s reproaching to God. God tears us, break us and kills us when he wants, because he controls everything. It’s like the singer is wondering how God, that can became everything real, and make whatever he wants to, is not trying to end with misfortune. But, either way, people believe in God, and these people think that is saved just because of their beliefs in God. The simple fact to believe  in someone makes us feel safe. 

                                                                            

Why do we sit around and
Break each others hearts tonight,
Why do we dance around
The issues till the morning light
When we sit and talk and
Tear each others lives apart,
You were the one to tell me go,
But you were the one for me
And now you’re going through the door
When you take that step
I love you baby more and more
We need to laugh and sing and cry
And warm each others hearts tonight,
Observing the fun of everything
And loving all of mother God,

Tearing us, you’re tearing us,
You’re breaking us, you’re breaking us,
You’re killing us, killing us,
You’re saving us, you’re saving us,
You’re tearing us, you’re tearing us,
You’re breaking us, breaking us,
You’re killing us, killing us,
You’re saving us,

Forever alive, forever alive, forever, forever,
Forever alive, forever alive, forever,
Never and ever again,

You’re tearing us, you’re tearing us,
You’re breaking us, you’re breaking us,
You’re killing us, killing us,
You’re saving us, you’re saving us,
You’re tearing us, you’re tearing us,
You’re breaking us, breaking us,
You’re killing us, killing us,

You’re saving us
You’re saving us
Forever alive, forever alive,
Forever, forever
Forever alive, forever alive,
Never and ever again.

[Some interesting scenes and things of the video:]

First of all, the papers that people’s holding I supose it represents what they like/what they usually/what they think about. The words written on the papers are these words:
Homeless; gambling; pharmaceuticals & meat eating; terrorism; rehab; stem cell research; big business; animal testing; bottled water; family & love, freedom; arms races; NRA, succes & reception; inmigration & marriage; nuclear testing.
Then we have a part with pictures and words changing fastly. The words are:
Greed, fear, fate, choice, consume, dream, fight, abuse, lust, martyr, deceit, waste, debt, confess, lost and destiny.And then again with the papers:
War; legalize marijuana; religion; divorce; FBI & CIA; taxation; liposuction; big brother & education; cat rights; faith and hope. 

Minute 0:30 : The homeless is laying on the floor, when suddenly a policeman try to make him leave. Together with the lyrics (“Why do we sit around and break each others hearts tonight? Why do we dance around the issues till the morning lights?”) I think that this part wants to represent somethin like: we have our own problems, and in our world we have wars, and a lot of more important things than having to make leave a homeless. First of all we have to look at ourselves and then look at the others.

From minute 2:50 more or less until 3:10 : the homeless put his hands up as wondering why him, why is he so unfortunate, why people wants him to leave from everywhere, and looks at him in a bad way when there’s more things to care about like wars, consume, pollution… And even there’s worse people than him and they can have whatever they want, they have money, home and they can eat. But the homeless, that’s probably better person than other people, he can’t have anything and he has to survive everyday with a small amount of resources.

From minute 3:46 until 3:53 : the homeless is scavenging in trash something to eat and there’s a religious family having a lunch peacefully. They just look at him smiling, but they don’t give him any food. Serj Tankian (singer) doesn’t like religion, he doesn’t follow it, and he’s trying to make us understand that even if religion is treally rich because of people that gives money to churches etc. they’re not going to give you any help when you need it. 

From minute 4:13 until 4:26 : you can see that 2 little girls approach to the homeless and give him some money, and for the second time the homeless look at them, you can observe that in the papers is written “Faith and hope”. It wants to mean that new generations, new children borning this years are the future of our society. 

And in the end, the homeless continue with his “life”, trying to survive everyday how he can. And the video returns till the beginning. (Homeless walking around the road).

Serj Tankian is one of my favourites singers. I reckon that all his songs or almost all of them complain about something. He’s an interesting singer. I love his music. These are some reasons why I chose one of his songs.

Postscript: the explanation is written weird, but I’ve tried to update it hundred of times and it still continue like you see right now :S