Title: Bang
Length: 3:02
Written By: (A)Rhia
Genre: Synthpunk
Track
"Bang" is the first track on (A)Rhia's debut EP 'Government Warning'. The song opens with a hevy beating of drums alongside a disfunctional sounding synth that immediately gets the adrenaline pumping. This whole sound continues throughout the song until (A)Rhia gets to the spoken ward part of the song; here the music sounds muffled as if heard through a wall before slowly rising in volume again. However, when the backing track gets back into full swing, the drums become more aggressive as if someone is pouding them. When (A)Rhia stops singing the track continues for another 20 seconds with just the synth playing. The song fades out with the sound effect of a heart monitor flatlining.
Meaning
The song is basically about the evil in the world and no matter how much you try to make a perfect world by locking up criminals, killing dictators and ending wars there will still always be one person out there to do harm.
(A)Rhia said; "Looking on comments on music videos I see a lot of artists get hate just because they release a so called 'rubbish song'. They get death threats and everyone turns on them. People seem to care more about the amount of dislikes a video has on YouTube than important things going on in the world. So writing this song was inspired by those horrible comments, they said to me 'do something wrong or something I dislike I will kill you and single you out'. If that happened for real and everyone was killed for doing something 'wrong' then nobody would be left in the world. That'ss what this song represents, aiming for perfection by killing all the bad things but in doing so by killing you then become 'bad' and it's just a viscious cycle."
Key
Italics: spoken word
Bang bang bang bang!
We all fall down
No one left screaming, no one makes a sound;
If you even whimper, if you turn around
Bang bang bang bang!
You will fall down
In this game there are no winners
We all play but no one makes it out alive
In this game there are no losers
We're all in the same boat, we're going to capsize
In this world there is no justice
We all seem to think it should be served with a bang
In this world their are no leaders
Cos one by one they all get hanged
Keep running, keep running, we can try to escape it but it'll just keep coming
Keep running, keep running, we can try to escape it but it'll just keep coming
Keep running, keep running, for fuck sake just keep on running
Keep running, keep running, don't look back cos' I can hear them coming
Bang bang bang bang!
We all fall down
No one left screaming, no one makes a sound;
If you even whimper, if you turn around
Bang bang bang bang!
You will fall down
Keep running, keep running, we can try to escape it but it'll just keep coming
Keep running, keep running, we can try to escape it but it'll just keep coming
Keep running, keep running, for fuck sake just keep on running
Keep running, keep running, don't look back cos' I can hear them coming
Bang bang bang bang!
We all fall down
No one left screaming, no one makes a sound;
If you even whimper, if you turn around
Bang bang bang bang!
You will fall down
Nobody is safe, we can try to escape, but in the end we just gotta do it
You might cry, you might try to hide but in the end you're gonna get a bullet
Keep running, keep running, we can try to escape it but it'll just keep coming
Keep running, keep running, we can try to escape it but it'll just keep coming
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