Before every great change there is a crescendo of the status quo. The lyric is from a future dystopian song that is unrelated, in the concrete sense. The quote,

Before every great change there is a crescendo of the status quo. The lyric is from a future dystopian song that is unrelated, in the concrete sense. The quote, however, in my own interpretation the quote expresses that when things reach a fever pitch, when things become unpalatable for general society, the pendulum will swing back in the other direction.