This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Thank you for the lies, the lies you sold us
Thank you for this vision, of violence.
Thank you for this song, you gave me to sing
Thank you for the capping day on a culture that lay dying.
Yes, it's us that's dying
Maybe it won't be long now that it's all gone on
[Chorus]
It's all gone wrong, there's blood on our hands
It's all gone wrong, there's blood
There's blood
It's all gone wrong, There's blood on our hands.
It's all gone wrong, there's blood
blood on our hands.
We saw them laying there, with their arms around each other
Staring through their fear and the miles between our heads.
You could have told the truth
It was your decision to
Sacrifice integrity and compassion for greed
[Chorus]
Thank you for this vision, of violence.
Thank you for this song, you gave me to sing
Thank you for the capping day on a culture that lay dying.
Yes, it's us that's dying
Maybe it won't be long now that it's all gone on
[Chorus]
It's all gone wrong, there's blood on our hands
It's all gone wrong, there's blood
There's blood
It's all gone wrong, There's blood on our hands.
It's all gone wrong, there's blood
blood on our hands.
We saw them laying there, with their arms around each other
Staring through their fear and the miles between our heads.
You could have told the truth
It was your decision to
Sacrifice integrity and compassion for greed
[Chorus]
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basically this appears to be about the massacre at Little Big Horn.
First verse is from the side of the Natives. Second verse if told from the side of US Army on the attack.
Very similar to the play done by Iron Maiden on "Run to the Hills".
Queensryche doesn't just do little things. Even if this is about Little Bighorn, there are way bigger things this song has to do with. This has to do with any massacre, metaphorical or physical. Any government that lies to its people, any government that kills its own is despicable.
Additionally, this song appears to be told from the point of view of a group of survivors. In the face of a government that did nothing or did the wrong thing, the survivors did what they could, even though it might not have been the most right thing either.
All in all, it shows how a government has to care for its people and pay attention to them instead of deluding them "for their own good."