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One man army – 1st verse explained
“There is a hero hiding in every heart,
disguised as conscience!”
This song is about you, the
people!
Our lives are made up of situations where we
find ourselves confronted by our conscience every time we make a weak choice, in order to escape the consequences that
come with a hard one.
“When I stand here and I see, the man that glares at me. Ain’t the one I know, but can the one I be?”
When you make a weak choice, what confronts you in a mirror
is not your image, but rather your conscience. And conscience is very strong
and fiery, unlike the weak person standing in front of the mirror. The
only way to satisfy this conscience is by being like it; fiery and strong, not afraid to rectify the mistake and
make the hard choice.
“For peace is yours if you pay the bill!”
The peace being talked about here is “inner peace”, that
comes when you are no longer scared of facing your conscience; the true
contentment. But that peace can only be achieved by making the hard choice,
thus making yourself vulnerable to the consequences that choice entails.
“Just make your choice and take the pill.”
A reference to the “Matrix” movie, the choice to be made is; “Do you want peace, or not?” In other
words; “Are you ready for consequences, or not?”
The situation one is faced with may not necessarily be a
social cause (like crusade against injustice, corruption, prostitution etc),
but it could just be a personal battle where one is pitched against their peers
(like bullies in school) or higher-ups (company managements, government departments etc) or relations (family disputes). A fickle mind and heart
will surrender their interests and live with the injustice when left facing the
daunting challenge alone. But a true fighter will fight it out, like Neo (the
hero from Matrix movies). But such a hero has certain characteristics that
define his persona:
“Ain’t knows no fear, ain’t knows no love, ain’t knows no how to yield! Who knows no hate,
don’t need no fate, don’t hide behind no shields!”
A hero cannot be swayed by as powerful emotions as love and
hatred, nor can he stop his work for fear of the consequences of his choices and action. He cannot leave
anything to fate, and he cannot hide behind a shield. He has to rise above
personal emotional needs, conquer his fears and superstitions, then face the problem without the
fear of taking a blow or two.
“Where brothers lay who kept their pact.
Their words alive, but worlds dead! They ain’t no gonna come around, but the one who cares will
take their crown.”
Neo is just a fictional character, but every religion has
stories of virtuous men like 4 Princes from Ayodhya (Ramayana), 5 Pandavas (Mahabharata), to
tell. And outside all this fiction and mythology, every human society has seen
men of honor who either laid down their lives or lived their lives for the
betterment of their society; like Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio and others from
Philippines, Bhagat, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Chandrasekhar, Bismil, Bose, Ashfaq and many more from
India, George Washington from US, Martin Luther King from US,
Sir Henry Parkes from Australia, Nelson Mandela from South Africa (Recent), etc. These men may have died long time ago, and the worlds
they left behind might have changed beyond recognition, but the value of their
work and words still lives on. They may have died, but the dignity, values and
principles their lives propagated, they will continue to inspire and motivate
those who really care for their society. Such motivated
individuals will continue to strive for their society’s progress, and will keep
defending their societies against the greed and vested interests of the
society’s enemies.
As far as the meaning of the remaining two verses is
concerned, I will leave them to your individual interpretations. And may I also
mention, even the first verse should not be confined to the meaning I have
lined out here.
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