AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) - Meaning of the song
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
This is the title track to the AC/DC album that followed Back In Black, one of the best-selling albums of all time. Back In Black never hit #1 on the US albums chart, but For Those About To Rock did (their 2008 release Black Ice also hit the top spot).
The phrase that this song's title is based on is "For those about to die..." This is a variation on the phrase "We who are about to die salute you," which is what Roman gladiators would say to the high rulers (typically the emperor), before fighting to the death in the arena. AC/DC guitarist Angus Young got the idea after reading a book Bon Scott gave him about the gladiator games in ancient Rome. Young remembers the book as For Those About To Die We Salute You by Robert Graves, but Graves never wrote a book with that title. It's likely that the book was Those About to Die by Daniel Mannix.
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) - Lyrics
Oh, yeah, yeah
Yeah, oh
Oh, oh
We roll tonight
To the guitar bite
Yeah, yeah
Oh
Stand up and be counted
For what you are about to receive
We are the dealers
We'll give you everything you need
Hail-hail to the good times
'Cause rock has got the right of way
We ain't no legend, ain't no cause
We're just living for today
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
We rock at dawn, on the front line
Like a bolt right out of the blue
The sky's alight with the guitar bite
Heads will roll and rock tonight
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you, yes, we do
For those about to rock, we salute you
Oh, salute
Oh, yeah
Oh, yes
Load up
We're just a battery for hire with a guitar fire
Ready and aimed at you
Pick up your balls and load up your cannon
For a twenty-one gun salute
For those about to rock— fire
(We salute you)
Oh, for those about to rock
(We salute you)
Oh, those about to rock— fire
(We salute you)
Oh— fire
We salute you
We salute you
Come on
Oh
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, oh, we salute you
Shoot, shoot
Shoot, shoot
Oh, for those who give and those who take
Doing your time and those on the rank
We salute you, yeah
We salute you
We salute you
We salute you
Fire!
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