The first lines of the song show the hopeless world for both the Socs and the Greasers. “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 the world we’ve made.” (lines 1-4) This states …show more content…
“Keep what you love,” (line 49) was Dally losing Johnny, the only thing he ever loved. (pgs. 148-149) Then it trickles down, “Never give up, no/ Rise. Rise in revolution/Rise. Rise in revolution/Everybody one for all.” (lines 50-53) These lyrics show Dally’s breakdown. (pgs. 149, 152-154) He goes on to rob a gas station and gets shot down by the police. He was thinking for nobody but himself as he retaliated. Finally two separate lyrics in the end represent what happens afterwards. “Rise, like we’re alive/Tonight we rise/Rise! Make a better life.” (lines 55-57) These lyrics represent the Greasers and the Socs. They rise, not necessary together, to make a better life for themselves. The Socs move on from Bob’s death and the Greasers (Ponyboy) try(s) to do something with their lives as well as they move on from Johnny’s & Dally’s deaths. The last lyric, to me, shows Dally, Johnny, Bob and so on united in death and they realize it isn’t worth fighting. So they do what they can to show the living what they know. “Rise.” (line