The Eco‐Terrorist in Me, by Rise against

I always listened to this song but never realised how powerful it is. Until I saw a girl wearing a t-shirt on a festival in Italy, and started questioning myself:

When it all comes down will I say I did everything I could? 

I live thinking about leaving a better world for the future. Am I failing? Don't really know, at least I'm trying!

Spray paint the camerasJam the frequencyWhat you kill just comes alive in meHoods and bandanas make not an enemyYou can't define us anyway you please
You make the rules we make the callsMy conscience clean my sins absolvedBecause I found godIn the sound of your factories burning downNow I sleep so sound
When it all comes downWill you say you didEverything you could?When it all comes downCan you say that you never gave up?Or were you standing byTo watch it fall away?Will you hold on or let it go?
Instead of doing what's rightThey built higher wallsWhere we can't shed a lightOn true criminalsWhen business and sufferingIs one and the same whenLaws fail the peopleThey turn to the flame
I found loveI found lifeAs a thorn stuck in your sideAnd you wonder why
When it all comes downWill you say you didEverything you could?When it all comes downCan you say that you never gave up?Or were you standing byTo watch it fall awayWill you hold onDid you hold on or just let it fall?Did you let it fall?
When it all comes downWill you say you didEverything you could?When it all comes downCan you say that you never gave up?When it all comes downWill you say you didEverything you could?
When it all comes downWhen it all comes down
When the lights all go outAnd roadblocks go upAs we sleep to the soundOf alarms going offWhen it all comes downWill you say you didEverything you could?

Album: The Black Market.

This song is the most aggressive from the band in several albums. The music is pummelling and relentlessly heavy. Its central premise is that corporations, with their hands in the pockets of law-makers, are killing the planet and it is up to individuals to stand up and fight before it’s too late. He says that breaking the law is not only justified but a moral obligation if it leads to saving the planet and our species.