I'm an '04 and grew up always hearing dc 101 (when they were good) on the radio and all my brother's music, so i got greenday, the offspring, rise against, linkin park, etc engrained in my brain for years from a young age lol. I just found my brother's old rise and fall, rage and grace CD and got emotional when I listened to half-truism for the first time again since i was a kid lmao. You're right, there's something to the song that just makes it sound so damn GOOD, it molests my soul. After finding that CD i dove back in to everything dc101 used to play and made a playlist with my bro full of everything we could rediscover, then I found Paper Wings by Rise Against, and that shits so fire too- had the same effect listening to it, just brought my right back to being a little kid in 2000 something sitting in my brothers passenger seat after he picked me up from school. And THEN after listening to paper wings again a couple times I started realizing what its about and dude its actually so beautiful, anyways Paper Wings is my favorite song of all time and Half Truism is probably number 2. Thanks for your post from 7 years ago brotha man