The War Still Rages Within

"The War Still Rages Within" is the ending credits song for the game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a description of today's society, his development and the way people act.

The lyrics of the song is a reflection of the rapid action in which we move (the humans), the ideas implemented and their impact. In contrast to all other songs of the album MGR:R - Vocal Tracks, "The War Still Rages Within" is a slowly and quiet song, a metaphor to the steep path we have followed until the end of the game, battle after battle, without stopping, with lack of time to make decisions and no questioning our actions, interpreting the busy life around us today and the low value of the decisions made for personal gain.

It is an uplifting message, to not surrendering, urging that within us still there is hope, and the battle continues (to rectify to the right path and be aware of our environment).

Lyrics
Looking down on the cars on the highway

Stream of tail-lights

Everybody invented together

To so willingly sacrifice rights

When people accept the cogs in the system

Give our freewill conform

Individual pieces, a vast world together

Become a force storm

Looking down on the virgulent city

The skyscrapers rise

Even men with the greatest intentions

Start believing in their own lies

Rip them off from their future

But eventually someones has to pay

The only way out of the circle

Is to strike out and pave your own way!

Yeahh... (...)

We all fight our own fight

Will you fuel the desire to win?

Always struggling with the truth

Of the life that might have been

But no matter how jagged your path is

You always come back to the road

When the dust of battle settles, the war still rages within!

Yeahh... (...)