Never Take Us Alive

Album: Attics to Eden (2009)
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  • Frontman Nathan Leone explained to Kerrang! magazine April 4, 2009: "This is a fight song of persistence. In the two and a half years of touring and going through everything that we have, we've learnt a lot. We now have an awareness that people will always try and pick on you, try and push you out of the game and bring you down, but if you believe strongly enough in something, then none of that stuff comes through. The song is about overcoming the negativity, ignoring it and continuing the pursuit of your own happiness."

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  • Nadia from London, United KingdomI love this song so much!
    I'm doing my speech about it in English[=
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