Description:
Tentative is one of the songs found on System of a down's fifth album Hypnotize. It was recorded on November 2006. I choose this song because it's one of my favourites on that album and I thought it had some sigificant meaning to it. Please feel free to leave your thoughts on the song and this analysis. Thank you for viewing.

Song/Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dtkbJY_hc8A

Lyrics:
"Tentative"

Superstition taking all of us for a ride
Mimes overtaken by the signs of the Right
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
While you are talking all detached, so tell us

Where you're going to the bottom
Do you hear us we are rotting?
We're going down in a spiral to the ground
No one, no one's gonna save us now!

Ceremonies have killed religions for they provide
The masked comforts to delusionals, they're all in fright
The true believer's head was bathed in sunlight
While you are walking all detached, so tell us

Where you're going to the bottom
Do you hear us we are rotting?
We're going down in a spiral to the ground
No one, no one's gonna save us now, not even god!
No one saved us, no one's gonna save us

Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you expect them to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?

Superstition taking all of us for a ride
Mimes overtaken by the signs of the Right
The bombs are falling over our head with no sight
While you are talking all detached, detached, detached, detached, detached,
We're going down in a spiral to the ground
No one, no one's gonna save us now! (not even god!)
No one saved us, no one saved us
No one saved us, no one's gonna save us now
Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?

Song Analysis:
I think this song is referring to all wars that took place (present or past), but the Armenian Genocide war in particular.

"No one saved us, not even God. Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?"
» The people were slaughtered and killed because they never had enough protection, during the Genocide war; they were forsaken and left to die and no one was going to save them. It emphasizes how they really didn't have any help; they want us to understand that many people died and sacrificed their lives. Some people don’t really think about the individuals who fought in wars. This song is a tribute to them.

"Do you hear us we are rotting"
» Demonstrates the neglect placed on these countries that are bombed. In other words it's basically how many innocent lives must be destroyed before the other government gives up. Why must they rot? The innocent civilians were just living their lives, then they got killed.

"Mimes overtaken by the signs of the Right"
» I think this is referring to the people that have a point, but are ignored; something similar to the higher class (politics) not giving us the voice to speak the truth. The people who have a point are mimes acting out and deleivering signs that are the truth; messages that they want the U.S. to hear but are shunned.

"The bombs are falling overhead with no sight while you are talking all detached, so tell us"
» In other words, innocent people are dying why politics and upper class people are back at home sitting on their couch being lazy a**es talking about how wonderful they are and how great their lives are.

"We're going down in a spiral to the ground. No one, no one's gonna save us now!"
» It's too late . . . nothing can be done.