Boy Sets Fire Archive

"We are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, history is written from the biased perspective of the power elite. From our birth we are told lies and myths and expected not to only believe them, but to worship them at America's false altar of progress. We must learn to question history and measure each 'fact' on its own merits." - Boy Sets Fire, "the tyranny of what everyone knows"

"We are trading our rights for the illusion of safety and in doing so we give the real criminals even more potency." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"

"I could lie here for a day--tongue tied and out-classed. Never missing their world that used to be my life." - Boy Sets Fire, "fine art of falling"

"They say that what does not kill you only makes you stronger, well maybe some of us are just too sick and tired of being so damn strong." - Boy Sets Fire, "another badge of courage"

"on the face of every american worker is the constant fear that their job won't remain." - Boy Sets Fire, "when rhetoric dies"

"The story of America is a story best seen through the eyes of its people. It is a story built on the idea of freedom, through the common efforts of a nation united. America, now over 200 years old, is a country that is different from all others, in that it offers equal opportunity to anyone, regardless of gender, sexuality or race. It is on this creed that the story of America was founded. Unfortunately, that is all it is. A story." - Boy Sets Fire, "prologue"

"Blacks fear whites, whites fear anyone different, and we all fear that which we do not know, even though, according to many studies, violent crime statistics are down. We keep adding more police and giving those police more and more power." - Boy Sets Fire, "voiceover"

"I haven't grown to hate you. i've just grown to forget you." - Boy Sets Fire, "the abomination of those virtuous"

"where ever you go leaves a memory--struggles to kill this defending plea, but if you see through you will finally see that i've lived long enough, and my heart has been living in dying pain." - Boy Sets Fire, "phone call 4am"

"I have shed this dry hard shell--traded its comfort for your eyes." - Boy Sets Fire, "fine art of falling"