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1991 | s, sk _________________________
i saw the injustice, and yet i still turned my back to those that suffered. who am i?
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it was too hot.
the stage lights always seemed to burn his skin, no matter how much he moved around the stage. though they bathed his skin the most beautiful shades of dark violet, making him look more like that of a God with his perfect smooth skin that the hands in the audience reached out eagerly to touch, and the cocky smirk he wore after each line that he yelled into the the mic, the one that made the women and men up front push each other eagerly to claim that they were the one on the receiving end of it. the music, the screeching of the guitar and the loud thumping of the drums made him feel a bit deaf at times. it was too much, right behind him, right beside him - inside him, in the deepest pit of his heart. sometimes he thinks he might be having a heart attack on stage - his heart feels like it might hammer out of his chest at any moment, his hearing is shot out though he somehow manages to keep up with whatever song their on, and he's sweating buckets worth, his hair falling into his face in a damp mess as he runs and jumps back and forth from one end of the stage to the next like he's in the fucking olympics.
in the midst of all of this, jeon jungkook felt great.
the vein in his throat is prominent as he shouts the last line of the song. it was also the last one of their show, a rebellion inspired song called "knock them back!".
ryuu had been the one to write it of course, citing his inspiration as his hate for the machina. of course, he wasn't allowed to say that in any band interviews, as he learned after being tackled by security and the other band members countless times for attempting to do so. it was no secret that ryuu had a deep hatred for the machina, but saying so in public was like asking for an execution. still, that didn't stop the rebellious drummer, and it was assumed by many that he hadn't been killed yet simply because he was a public figure.
a famous drummer expresses his hatred for government tech then goes missing a few days later. that had "silenced" written all over it, and it seems that even the government was trying to steer clear of being labeled murderers.
ryuu claimed that his song came to him in a dream in which the people of seoul finally fought back against the machina who regulate them, and at one point they managed to gain the upper hand against the machines, causing one of the citizens within the fight to yell, "knock them back!". ryuu immediately woke from his dream and woke jungkook up, dragged him to the studio at four in the morning, and by two that afternoon, they had made a hit. the song charted in the top 10 in over twenty countries.
