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This punk rock band is very good at evoking this reaction.

  • "Hero of War" is about a young man who enlists in the military. The song starts out talking about his boot camp, how he was making friends, and how his buzzcut didn't look too bad, and the chorus is fairly positive.
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 "A hero of war

Yeah, that's what I'll be

And when I come home

They'll be damned proud of me

And I'll carry this flag

To the grave if I must

'Cause it's a flag that I love

And a flag that I trust."

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    • Then it moves onto the serious matters as he actually goes to war. He beats a prisoner of war with his squadron after trying to get them to stop, and he kills a civilian woman, mistaking her for an enemy soldier. The final chorus of the song takes a rather darker turn.
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 "A hero of war

Is that what they see?

Just medals and scars

So damned proud of me

And I brought home that flag

Now it gathers dust

But it's a flag that I love

And it's the only thing I trust."

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  • "Make It Stop (September's Children)" is a message to LGBTQ youth who are bullied, saying "It Gets Better". The lyrics are powerful as is, the video only makes it more so.
    • Also, the radio sections in "Make It Stop".
    • As well as the flash-forward sequence in the music video, where it showed the girl with her future wife. Oh, god.
    • At the three minute mark of the song (and the video), lead singer Tim McIlrath list off names of kids who committed suicide because of bullying. The video kicks it up even more so when clips from the "It Gets Better Project" on YouTube are inserted in as well.
  • In a completely different way, "Swing Life Away". I dare you to listen to it without tearing up.
  • About half the tracks from Revolutions Per Minute are this, especially "Heaven Knows". "The day I learn to fly/ I'm never coming down"
  • "The Approaching Curve" from The Suffer and The Witness. The spoken-word verses highlight the bleak lyrics about a failing relationship, while the chorus is perhaps Tim McIlrath's most anguished performance.
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