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in the second half of the verse (and the bridge) the guitar strumming gets noticeably chunkier. it makes for a great segway to the chorus, where there's a lot of muting done
one of my favorite lyrics ever is in this song, and it's from the second half of the first verse that goes And if strength is born from heartbreak / Then mountains I could move / And if walls could speak I'd pray / That they would tell me what to do! it describes such a specific yet vague situation, that i still don't really know what it could mean... like the first two lines are just a very roundabout way to say that the narrator has been through a lot of suffering but the last two feels like the narrator is simply looking for guidance, and their only solace in the loneliness of their life is the walls of the places that imprison them (physically or not)
the second verse continues this theme of ambiguity, and (as an aside) has one of my favorite words in it, "save." not used as a verb, but as a preposition

The Sufferer and the Witness is not only the best Rise Against album AND my favorite album in general, it's also just the best album of all time. Which sounds like hyperbolic exaggeration, but if you've ever listened to this album you know it's true.

It is the purest, most Rise Against record they've ever put out. I've listened to it probably a million times, and I'm still not over it. Some people may call that autism (and they're probably right) but I call it masterful craftsmanship and audiophilia. Catchy hooks and dramatic choruses? Fry screams? Octaves? Detailed imagery and political thematics with a touch of everyday despair (and impressively abstract yet poignant lyricism)? You name it. If you're a fan of melody, hardcore, the city of Chicago, suffering, witnessing, or white men with heterochromia, then this album is for you. And if not... what're you still doing here?

Injection

Ready to Fall

this is objectively the best song to listen and mouth to while walking down the street on a cloudy afternoon. something about suicidal ideation just makes mimicing standing on a rooftop so fun.

Bricks

Gallery

Heaven Knows

Heaven Knows is one of the few songs pre-SSOTCC that has a music video. and even fewer featuring the appearance of (the short-lived) shaggy blonde hair Tim era,, gone but never forgotten
this song features one of my favorite Tim McIlrath screams ever, which is during the second verse: You're still searching for these answers / They're not inside your wrist! which is also a fan favorite in Rise Against spaces
i like how Tim calls them Neon grids of cities, instead of just cities

Dead Ringer

Halfway There

Like the Angel

Voices Off Camera

Blood-Red, White, & Blue

Broken English

the first riff of this song follows almost the exact same chords and has an extremely similar progression to another Rise Against song, Survive
i love how they blend these two idioms in the second verse (Let the blind lead the blind / 'Cause it's eye for an eye in your so called life) into one that both makes sense (and rhymes)
ive seen interpretations that the song is a post-9/11 anthem. and i think that interpretation is taking the lyrics too literally. it'd be odd for a song called Broken English to make a bush-esque american anthem whilst not bringing up the post-9/11 hysteria at all would be kinda crazy

Last Chance Blueprint

To the Core

Torches

Amber Changing

endgame

appeal to reason

Appeal to Reason is the fifth studio album by my all-time favorite band, Rise Against, and one of their most beloved albums by far. Honestly, I can see why. It's a more radio friendly version of The Sufferer and the Witness, and is almost always people's first introduction to the band. I'm no exception, either. Savior was the first Rise Against song I ever heard, so I'm guilty as sin.

This album, like most of their albums, is perfect and has no flaws (/hj) so I want to gush about it. If you'd like to scavenge around for on-theme graphics, fun facts, and things about this album that I love, scroll now! And if you're wondering where special edition tracks like Elective Amnesia or Historia Calimantium are, try the miscellanious page!

Collapse (Post-Amerika)

Long Forgotten Sons

Re-Education (Through Labor)

i fucking lobve this song so much i love the industrial themes i love the steampunk-y imagery AAAAAAAA i love it so much i made this painting from the lyrics (yes thats mine). it was one of the first songs that REALLYYYY got me into Rise Against. so heres some of my favorite parts of the song:

⟶ cool ass car metaphor in the post-chorus: White needles buried in the red / The engine roars and then it gives
⟶ the bridge has some super cool bug imagery: We are the insect in your ears / We crawl / We crawl / We crawl / All over you!
⟶ the guitar simultaneously has a repetitive marching beat whilst not being boring and has a lot of "moving parts" so to say since the inbetween parts are very varient.

The Dirt Whispered

COOL DETAILS !!!

⟶ in the first verse there's a line that goes: "She got down on hands and knees / One ear against the ground / Holding her breath to hear something / But the dirt made not a sound tonight" but i actually think she's listening for the vibrations that a car would make in a driveway, not a literal sound
⟶ also also, the detail that she would be holding her breath to hear better is an amazing detail that you don't even think of if you arent a mentally ill fanatic (me)
⟶ this song is something of a sister song to The Good Left Undone; they both have a similar vibe to them (what with the earthy metaphors for relationships and all) but are about two different kinds of relationships
⟶ there's a cool perspective shift that happens during the chorus, where the first two stanzas are from the womans perspective and the second half is from Tim McIlrath's perspective
⟶ during the bridge Tim lists off nouns— a destination, a fading smile, a station, a mile, a day gone —that describes the entire theme of the song in three lines and has a really cool poetic twinge

Kotov Syndrome

From Heads Unworthy

GALLERY

this song was in a capcom trailer... btw...

The Strength to Go On

Audience of One

my cover (ehehehe)..

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Hero of War

Savior

Hairline Fracture

Whereabouts Unknown

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    Biography
    Name(s) Aurora, Rory, Caesthoffe
    Date of Birth 11 August 2003 (age 20)
    Winnemucca, NV, U.S.
    Origin Renton, WA, U.S.
    Pronouns They/them, it/its, neos
    Gender Non-binary
    Sexual/romantic orientation Viramoric, aromantic
    Years active 2022–present
    Title(s) Musician • writer • artist
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    Caesthoffe (sometimes stylized in all lowercase), also known as Aurora or Rory is an American artist and online personality. They[a] are not known for doing anything important outside of the small community they occupy.

    Early and personal life

    Caesthoffe was born in 2003 to a narcissistic mother and a father who was no longer in their life. They attended Hazen High School in Renton, and later Bellevue College before dropping out after their second semester. They've since taken many different retail jobs in the hopes of finally moving out.

    Music career

    Caesthoffe uploads acoustic covers of popular rock and metal songs onto Youtube[1] and less rehearsed/produced tracks onto Soundcloud.[2] On Youtube, they have amassed 1.6k views and currently sit at 50 subscribers as of 13 February 2024. Bands that have influenced Caesthoffe include Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Nine Inch Nails, The Clash, The Smashing Pumpkins, and many of the grunge bands from the Seattle music scene. They've also been influenced by many of the local bands they've seen at smaller venues, such as sundogs (now Diazepam) from Las Vegas.

    Activism

    Caesthoffe has voiced support for left-wing political views and movements, and considers themselves an anarcho-communist. Raised by right-wing parents, they didn't question their political ideology until discovering online political communities on Youtube and Twitter. Left-wing content creators that were "more palatable" to a young conservative brought them out of the alt-right pipeline, and gave them the room to discover their queer identities as well. They support many different beliefs and movements including the freedom of information, the right to privacy, pro-piracy, queer anarchism, relationship anarchy, anti-amatonormativity, and more.

    [a] Caesthoffe uses multiple sets of pronouns, including neopronouns (listed below). This article uses they/them for consistency.

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    [2] Caesthoffe's Soundcloud account.

    [3] A voluntary survey that Caesthoffe filled for us.

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    Whereabouts Unknown (or The Metal March, according to Tim) is the closing track of Appeal to Reason. it's one of the softer songs on the album, and closes the entire thing out on a shakespearien story of heartbreak. about two long forgotten friends, on opposite sides of the battle field.

    there's a lot of poetic tragedy in this tale, and i think it especially shines through in the second half of the track. whereas the first part is mostly some exposition about the characters, the second half gives some absolutely fucking gut punches:

    Another place, another time
    We toed the same side of the line
    Yeah, we saw eye to eye
    Even then the saddest sounds
    Were nothing laughter could not drown
    But we are not laughing now

    I see your face
    In my sights
    I hesitate
    And then look for a sign
    Somewhere in the sky

    the juxtaposition between the two is stark; firstly, he talks about his brotherly comradery. toeing the same line, seeing eye to eye, drowning their sorrows in laughter. the last line of the verse, though, brings us back to reality. the protagonist looks down the sight of (assumedly) a sniper rifle, at a friend he once loved and hesitates as he aims. i can't express how great this dichotomy is.

    i also want to just higlight the chorus, because it's easily the most impactful part of the song. specifically the chorus after the bridge, the one that closes the track (and album) out. if the verses/pre-choruses are the sort of level headed commentaries on the state of their relationship, the chorus is a plea for the future of it.

    Your whereabouts unknown
    Please know you can come home
    It's alright
    I long for the moment
    Our silence is broken
    It's all right
    It's all right
    It's all right

    It's alright now
    It's alright now
    'Cause all is forgiven
    If you could just listen
    It's all right
    It's all right

    even though this song is inherently political, i do like how almost everyone can relate to this in an a-political way. not everyone knows a Christo-facsist soldier, but everyone has a friend that they've lost touch with. everyone has a friend they miss. the repetition of that last line, "it's alright," is filled with desperation but also love. and his final speech, about forgiveness, ends the story unresolved... which leaves the album with a strange unfinished feeling. like there should be more to listen to, more stories of love and war and the weird ways they intersect. overall, it's just a fantastic song and an incredible end to a phenomenal album.

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    bouts" doesn't exactly have the same ring to it (and not a lot of things rhyme with whereabouts anyways). Even though this song is inherently political, I do like how almost everyone can relate to this in an a-political way. Not everyone knows a Christo-facsist soldier, but everyone has a friend that they've lost touch with. Everyone has a friend they miss. The repetition of that last line, "it's alright," feels like a plea to this person.

    The next verse doesn't have much to talk about on it's own, as it's mostly just more ways of saying what we already know by this point and serves as sort of a "flashback" than anything. Coupled with the pre-chorus, though, is where it gets interesting.

    Another place, another time
    We toed the same side of the line
    Yeah, we saw eye to eye
    Even then the saddest sounds
    Were nothing laughter could not drown
    But we are not laughing now

    I see your face
    In my sights
    I hesitate
    And then look for a sign
    Somewhere in the sky

    The juxtaposition between the two is stark; firstly, he talks about his brotherly comradery. Toeing the same line, seeing eye to eye, drowning their sorrows in laughter. The last line of the verse, though, brings us back to reality.

    The protagonist looks down the sight of (assumedly) a sniper rifle, at a friend he once loved; hesitating

    Chamber the Cartridge

    Chamber the Cartridge immediately sets the artistic tone that persists throughout The Sufferer and the Witness. The song begins with some radio chatter, as Brandon Barnes plays this militant drum fill that gets faster as the introduction goes on. After a moment, you can hear a robotic voice announce "this is Noyes." The intro uses a sample from the Noyes station Chicago train line; not only a nod to their roots as a Chicago-based band, but a tongue-in-cheek self awareness that they are quite literally making noise
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    The first verses are spoken incredibly quickly. Which is, honestly, a little unfortunate given the amazing imagery that Tim McIlrath uses.

    Down beyond these city streets through gutters filled with black debris
    In alleys void of any light where nameless things live out of sight
    Down through the scrapers of the sky past neon words glowing all night
    Echoes my name between each car, "Are you happy where you are?"

    He manages to make these lyrics come alive, like a camera is panning around this Gotham-esque city. He could've called them "neon signs," but instead he says "neon words glowing all night." He could've said "sky scraper," but instead he says "scraper of the sky." Which may sound like an immature and childish change, but I think it enhances this section a lot. At a first hearing, you don't really understand all of what he's saying. Unless you physically read the lyrics, he's just speaking too fast and aggresssive to understand it. That small change adds an air of mysticism to itself.

    Injection

    Injection blends together the themes of politics and personal strife into a wonderful concoction of desperation. The equivalent of watching someone trapped in a tank of water try and claw their way out.

    The chorus is so fast-paced, and by the end Tim McIlrath is pleading to the listener:

    Give me the drug, keep me alive
    Give me what's left of my life
    Don't let me go
    Pull this plug, let me breath
    On my own I'm finally free
    Don't let me go

    Ready to Fall

    Ready to Fall, the first single and third overall track of the album, is so fucking catchy it's crazy. A soft riff begins and, after the first two measures, breaks out into the main part of the song. The first verse plays out as a conversation between two people, going something like this:

    "Hold on slow down again from the top now, and tell me everything."

    "I know I've been gone for what seems like forever, but I'm here now waiting. To convince you that I'm not a ghost or a stranger, but closer than you think."


    She said, "just go on to what you pretend is your life, but please don't die on me!"

    The pre-chorus and chorus tackles the narrators willingness to die, with lines like:

    Wings won't take me
    Heights don't faze me
    So take a step
    But don't look down
    Take a step

    Hinting that he's afraid to follow through, and other lines like:

    I found a shoulder to lean on
    An infallible reason to live all by itself
    I took one last look from the heights that I once loved
    And then I ran like hell

    Indicating that he is scared to follow through.

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