Prayer of the Refugee
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| Single by Rise Against from the album The Sufferer & the Witness |
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| Released | 2006: Worldwide | ||||
| Format | CD: Worldwide | ||||
| Recorded | Fort Collins, Colorado, USA | ||||
| Genre | Punk rock | ||||
| Length | 3:21 | ||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||
| Writer(s) | Rise Against, Tim McIlrath | ||||
| Producer | Jason Livermore, Bill Stevenson | ||||
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"Prayer of the Refugee" is the second single from Rise Against's album The Sufferer & the Witness, and was released worldwide in 2006. The song was originally titled "Diaspora", with advance copies of the album using that title instead of "Prayer of the Refugee".
The song is featured as a re-recorded bonus track in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
[edit] Music video
Directed by Tony Petrossian, the video deviates slightly from the song's original message by focusing instead on American consumerism and its impact on the outside world. The video moves from scenes of the band playing and walking around in a warehouse to scenes of young children and foreign people making and packaging goods such as shoes, bananas, jeans and remote controlled cars. It ends with scenes of the foreign people placing 'Made In USA' and American flag labels on packaged boxes, and the band members (except for the drummer) toppling various shelves containing such goods, the broken and fallen goods spelling out "Fair trade", and the video ending in an abrupt change to a black screen.
The video was shot in "All American Center" store.
[edit] Chart overview
The song reached #7 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts. This is their first top 10 Rock single.
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