First, as usual, I highly advice you to watch the music video before reading this post. I’ve never been the biggest fan of Shinedown, but this video was so powerful. I am a victim of bullying, so harsh and cruel that I had to switch schools because I was attempting to kill myself. I will never forget the words they said, the scars they left, or the damage they caused. Nor will I ever forgive them, or let someone treat a living creature the way they treated me.
I first heard this song on the radio, and though I don’t listen to Shinedown actively, I don’t change the channel when they come on. Shinedown has some great rifts and strong lyrics, so I’ve put them on my list of bands to pay attention to.
“It’s eight AM, the hell I’m in, it seems I’ve crossed the line again for being nothing more than who I am. So break your bones, throw your stones, we all know that life ain’t fair, but there’s more of us, were everywhere.” Bullying usually takes place at school, which usually starts at eight in the morning. In the video, you see a boy hiding in his room with his door closed, his mother outside worried and upset. Words flash above her face: power, small, weak, object, useless, and then pauses on FEAR. She is afraid of what will happen to her son. The camera then goes to the father, the words saying: Hell, different, hate, tomorrow, lies, bullying, and ends on WARNING. Ironically, victims of bullying feel alone, but most people are bullied at one point in life. The victims need to band together to fight bullies and make it end.
“Think it through, you can’t undo. Whenever I see black and blue I feel the past, I share the bruise, with everyone who’s come and gone. My head is clear, my voice is strong, but I’m right here to right the wrong.” At this point at the video, the boy is at school. The bullies are running around in black hoods, holding nooses and pushing him. The camera pans to someone representing a teacher, who sees it and turns away, the words “Think, look, hide, forget, ignore, SELFISH.” Teachers over look bullying and do nothing. Not so much at Kennedy, but other places I’ve been. Those teachers are the most disgusting people I have ever encountered and are partly to blame for so many teen suicides.
Later in the video, kids are walking into a forest of dead and burning trees, some in the trees while they burn. In the bible, it is said that those who commit suicide will be banished here in the afterlife for destroying the life that “god” gave them.
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