“The Hate from Your Heart” by Trivium
As the title suggests, the addressee of “The Hate from Your Heart” is a hateful person. Moreover the narrator himself is apparently the object of his ill will. And being alarmed by this reality, he is trying to ascertain what exactly will cause the addressee to adopt a more-peaceful disposition.
The implication is that the singer has been enduring abuse from the addressee for an extended amount of time. But now things have reached the point where he feels he’s “been silent for far too long”. He therefore wants to speak out against this hatred with the hopes of ending it.
The singer also implies that the addressee’s dislike of him may be more of an internal than external issue. Or stated otherwise, one day he’s going to have to confront what it is exactly that is causing him to be filled with so much negativity. But overall the singer seems sympathetic towards him. Thus he is trying to find a cure, if you will, to heal his hatred.
Gregoletto sheds light on “The Hate from Your Heart”
So with the above being established, it must be noted that what Paolo Gregoletto based this song on is the challenges Japanese-American soldier went through during World War II. One of America’s enemies in that conflict, as you may already know, was Japan. So the United States was interning its own Japanese citizens in America while their own family members were out representing the US, as soldiers, in the war.
So reading about this disturbed Paolo, as he concluded that he personally would never fight for a country which has imprisoned his family members. But instead of approaching this subject from a perturbed standpoint he and the band decided to question, in light of many of these soldiers actually losing their lives, exactly what would have needed to be done to prove to a person who was negatively prejudiced against them not to be.
Remove the “Heart from your Hate”
Or speaking more poetically, they wonder what it would take to rip ‘the heart from their hate’. And on a macrocosmic level, they are applying this inquiry towards all like-minded people who are filled with hatred. So ultimately, we can say the idea which this song is based on is it being difficult to change someone’s mind once they have already a hateful disposition.
Facts about “The Hate from Your Heart”
This song was written by Trivium, and J. Wilbur handled the song’s production duties.
Roadrunner Records issued “The Hate From Your Heart” as the second single from Trivium’s album, “The Sin and the Sentence”, on 20 October 2017.
