#nowhere generation

Across the generations, we are the voices all ignored.

They are erasing our history in real time. We are a credible threat to the rules they set. We are not the problem...it's the fucking system they design and enforce to break us down and break us apart.

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[WIP Wednesday]

We are the nowhere generation We are the kids that no one wants We are a credible threat to the rules you set A cause to be alarmed

We are not the names that we've been given We speak a language you don't know We are the nowhere generation The nowhere generation, oh-whoa

And one day All the walls will come down All the doors will open All the roads will lead home

But right now We are spiraling down And the longer we wait The further we go

I know we're slippin' through the cracks now No place left on your map now to call home

And for your sweat you'll be rewarded They told us every day There's a land of milk and honey And it's not that far away

But the finish line kept movin' And the promises wore thin And the smoke on the horizon Was the burning promised land

And this place used to be somewhere But they sold it out from under us Our voices all ignored

The ironic part was, a year or two later, the same kid grew his hair long and got into bands – I was like, ​‘Fuck you!’ When Rise Against got big, I became cool to him.

Adults in my life were very dismissive about what I was doing with my life until I was successful and then it was all, ​‘Good for you! I respect you now because you can buy a house!’ That’s so wrong; I was like, ​‘You should have respected me then, and you should respect the person doing this who isn’t successful at it.’”

(From Tim’s interview with Kerrang!)

Source: Kerrang! (full interview here: https://www.kerrang.com/features/rise-against-tim-mcilraths-track-by-track-guide-to-nowhere-generation/)