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I am going to talk about one of my favorite songs : Rise against- Hero of war

__Song:__ This song is deeply emotional as it is one of the only songs that this rock group changed their style froma hard rock to an acoustical emotional song. This song has a patrotic morality as the rock band all live in the U.S.A, this song was made to encourage the american troops in irak to keep on fighting until they win and return home as the song says, "Hero´s of War".

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 * __Rise Against-:__****__"Hero of War"__**


 * He said "Son, have you seen the world? **
 *  Well, what would you say if I said that you could? **
 *  Just carry this gun and you'll even get paid." **
 *  I said "That sounds pretty good." **


 *  Black leather boots **
 *  Spit-shined so bright **
 *  They cut off my hair but it looked alright **
 *  We marched and we sang **
 *  We all became friends **
 *  As we learned how to fight **


 *  A hero of war **
 *  Yeah that's what I'll be **
 *  And when I come home **
 *  They'll be damn proud of me **
 *  I'll carry this flag **
 *  To the grave if I must **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Because it's a flag that I love **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> And a flag that I trust **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> I kicked in the door **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> I yelled my commands **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> The children, they cried **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> But I got my man **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> We took him away **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> A bag over his face **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> From his family and his friends **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> They took off his clothes **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> They pissed in his hands **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> I told them to stop **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> But then I joined in **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> We beat him with guns **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> And batons not just once **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> But again and again **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> A hero of war **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Yeah that's what I'll be **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> And when I come home **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> They'll be damn proud of me **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> I'll carry this flag **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> To the grave if I must **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Because it's a flag that I love **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> And a flag that I trust **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> She walked through bullets and haze **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> I asked her to stop **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> I begged her to stay **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> But she pressed on **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> So I lifted my gun **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> And I fired away **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> The shells jumped through the smoke **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> And into the sand **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> That the blood now had soaked **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> She collapsed with a flag in her hand **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> A flag white as snow **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> A hero of war **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Is that what they see **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Just medals and scars **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> So damn proud of me **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> And I brought home that flag **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Now it gathers dust **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> But it's a flag that I love **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> It's the only flag I trust **


 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> He said, "Son, have you seen the world? **
 * <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Well what would you say, if I said that you could?" **

__**<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Summary: **__
 * **__Video__**
 * **__Lyrics__**
 * **__Song Analysis__**
 * **__Activities__**

This song was written by the lead vocalist of the american rockband "Rise Against". It is a tribute and form of remembering the american soldiers that are fighting for their country in Irak. This song is depresing as it all seems to dissappear and transform to ashes. He defends the american patriotism when he says,"Because it´s the flag that i love and a flag that i trust" Most american soldiers fight for their country and defend it with their life and what they get in their funeral is a condecoration and a folded up american flag, it creates a very sad image because the singer refers to the flag that is given to the family of the dead soldier.
 * __Anlaysis:__**

When the singer talks about the black leather boots, spit-shined so bright he talks about the appeareance a of war for the soldiers, as soldiers walking with these black leather boots all around the camp but in real life it is totally different as we see that the soldiers die in these wars. It was all perfect but when as the song continues we see that they kick them and oblige them in hitting and killing inocent people just for fun to torture them as a perfectly natural thing.

The band crticizes the american way of taking this war, torturing people and defending this atrocities by saying that it is all a patriotic that what they did was to defend their country.

When these soldiers come back from war they will be awarded with medals and the only thing they will have of the war are just scars. When they return they will be heroes it is metaphorical i think as he says that they hit inocent pissed in their hands and when they come back they are recieved as heroes because only the soldiers know waht they did in Irak.


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**<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Grade my song: ** **<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">1-Terrible ** **<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">2-Bad ** **<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">3-Normal ** **<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">4-good ** **<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">5-Excelent **