HOOBASTANK & written by Chris Hesse

I must make a choice

All I see is shattered pieces

I can't keep it hidden like a secret

I can't look away!

From all this pain in a world we made!

Everyday you need a bulletproof vest

To save yourself from what you could never guess!

Am I safe today?

When I step outside in the wars we wage!

Our future's here and now,

Here comes the countdown!

Sound it off, this is the call!

Rise in revolution!

It's our time to change it all,

Rise in revolution!

Unite and fight, to make a better life!

Everybody one for all,

Sound off, this is the call, tonight we rise!

Rise.

Tonight we rise

Rise.

Tonight we rise!

Like a hand grenade thrown in a hurricane,

Spinning in chaos, trying to escape the flame,

Yesterday is gone!

Faster than the blast of a car bomb!

And when the scars heal, the pain passes,

As hope burns, we rise from the ashes!

Darkness fades away!

And the light shines on a brave new day!

Our future's here and now,

Here comes the countdown!

Sound it off, this is the call!

Rise in revolution!

It's our time to change it all,

Rise in revolution!

Unite and fight to make a better life!

Everybody one for all,

Sound off, this is the call, tonight we rise!

Rise.

Tonight we rise

Rise.

Tonight we rise!

In a world gone mad,

In a place so sad!

Sometimes it's crazy

To fight for what you believe!

But you can't give up,

If you wanna keep what you love!

(Keep what you love)

Keep what you love

(Keep what you love)

Keep what you love

Never give up, no!!!

Rise.

Rise in revolution

Rise.

Rise in revolution

Everybody one for all,

Sound off, this is the call!

Rise

Like we're alive

Tonight we rise

Rise

Make a better life

Tonight we rise!

Rise, rise, rise in revolution

Rise, rise, rise in revolution

Rise.

In Act 3, Brutus and the conspirators assassinate Julius Caesar. This song resembles this Act, as a revolution is about to begin. The people of Rome just want a leader who wants what is best for Rome. This song describes the chaos that occurs in this Act and this song is more like a voice for the people of Rome.

this is the start of the end

this is a start of a mess

I don't think we should pretend

that this is anything less than over

let me make it crystal clear

we can't be friends

we can't be friends

you did what you did

and I said what I said

already told you

don't wanna know you anymore

so get it through your head

we can't be friends

stop trying so hard

were so much better apart

you can't just rip out my heart

and then just keep going on like we're not over

let me make it crystal clear

we can't be friends

we can't be friends

you did what you did

and I said what I said

already told you

don't want to know you anymore

so get it through your head

we can't be friends

I wish I could erase my memories

said i never had it in me

swear ill find a way to move along

you may as well erase my number

i already burned your letters

find enough of you when you are gone

we can't be friends

we can't be friends

you did what you did

and I said what I said

already told you I don't want to know you anymore

so get it through your head

we can't be friends

we can't be friends

you did what you did

and I said what I said

already told you don't want to know you anymore

so get it through your head

we can't be friends

When the story starts, the people of Rome are celebrating Julius Caesar's victory over Pompey. The loyalty to Caesar is obvious and growing greater. Flavius and Murellus realize this as do the conspirators. "This is the start of the end, the start of a mess." Those are good lyrics to start out the story. It really sets the tone. "We can't be friends" is also another good line as it sets the mood for the rest of the story.

Chorus:
Just give me the warm power of the sun
Give me the steady flow of a waterfall
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay.
Just give me the restless power of the wind
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire
But please take all of your atomic poison power away.

Everybody needs some power I'm told
To shield them from the darkness and the cold
Some may see a way to take control when it's bought and sold.

I know that lives are at stake
Yours and mine and our descendants in time.
There's so much to gain, so much to lose
Everyone of us has to choose.

(Chorus)

We are only now beginning to see
How delicate the balance of nature can be
The limits of her ways have been defined
and we've crossed that line.

Some don't even care or know that we'll pay
But we have seen the face of death in our day.
There's so little time to change our ways
If only we together can say

(Chorus)

All of your atomic poison power
All of your atomic poison power
Away.

In act 1, We see how the nobles are concern of Caesar gaining too much power and the chorus represents how the nobles only want Rome to be equally powerful. Also when the song says " There's so much to gain, so much to lose. Everyone of us has to choose.", it is saying the the only the people of Rome can decided whether to celebrate Caesar and see what will happen if they crown him or if Rome should stay as a Democracy.

In this act is when Brutus decides to join the conspirators and is whiling to kill his best friend without really knowing the truth. he believes things easily so that's why Brutus is the king of fools. Also Caesar is a fool because he ignored all the signals of his upcoming death and decides to go to the senate. The songs says " As you walk away with him And I lose in love again
I'll pretend to see
That you're still with me" this verse describes when Caesar already knows that something bad will happen, but he pretends as if nothing was going to happen.

In this Act Brutus and Antony are getting ready to go to war. Brutus has lost his wife and at some point in this act he feels that he should just die. he wants is something to take him away. He also got into an argument with Cassius and Brutus feels as no one understand him and that he's going no where by himself. This is an act where Brutus is falling apart and this song expresses someone's madness.

I can't move my feet, cause they're stuck to the ground.
It's hard to pick my head up, but so easy to keep down.
I wanna hear my heart as it's starting to pound.
I miss that sound.

And I've been so stuck that I have to admit.
I'm hardly motivated by the same old trip.
I wanna be invincible.
I wanna be invincible.

I wanna be invincible.
I wanna be invincible.

I can't help but feel like I've messed this up.
I'll never see the sunlight if my eyes are always shut.
Sometimes I feel like I'm about to quit.
But it's about that time I get over it.
I wanna be invincible.
I wanna be invincible.

I wanna be invincible.
I wanna be invincible.

I'm sailing my ship away from the shore.
I need to turn it around before it sinks to the floor.

I wanna be invincible.
I wanna be invincible.
I wanna be invincible.