Idiocracy

This song touches on a person's disillusionment with modern society and also remarks on the iraq war. Ideas such as blind acceptance of authority, lies, and ideals are addressed. The songs 'singer' is not blind to the injustice and bullshit of society though, so they are very saddened and frusterated. They fantasize about living in blind ignorance for the emotional and moral burden that it lifts.

The singer is not blind though, and the last verse of the song recounts this. Modern democracies and countries are flawed and need to improve. "I don't want to see this undemocratic, semi-automatic mediocracy and hypocracy". That's how Pain of Salvation feels about the current world and all of the democracies and governments.

Daniel Gildenlöw is the Noam Chomsky of prog metal. Such a badass song. The verses are fairly straightforward, but I wonder what the words he says during the first half of the song mean. It might just be filler, but that doesn't seem like something Pain of Salvation would do.

Well... To me they're quite simple to understand, so maybe this'll help you, Windowpane8902.

Silence, Cold skin, Black mind, Blue light, Broken, Shut down, Knuckles, All white = Flash-bang grenade, or a fragmentation grenade... Either way, the soldier is hurt, white knuckles, and cold skin would indicate losing blood flow in one of his arms. Blue lights bring to mind an ambulance, or hospital lighting, that is a blueish hue.

Babel, Cold fact, Core mine, Black gold, Failure, Lock down, Gun-hands, All sold. Babel = middle east - location; cold fact = realization; black gold = oil... Duuh; failure and lockdown = him being kept in hospital, where he has time to think; gun-hands and all sold = the infamous blood for oil idea of anti-war people in the U.S.

We're waiting, so close your eyes Relax and take a deep breath now Believe the lies When you wake up you'll be democratized

This doesn't even need explanation. It's his interpretation of what the leaders are telling him. Happily he didn't lose his arm.

Violence, Cold pin, Blood crust, Blinded, Damp sheets, Needles, Stale smiles, Sick bed

Oops... This time he lost something that they can't heal so fast... His eye. And it was with his own grenade, as we can see from the feeling of the "cold pin" in his hand when he regains consciousness. The doctors smile at him with the false compassion that only army doctors have.

Guiltknife, Scarsoil. Sinstain, Killchrome, Footbare, Gone wrong, Blue lights, Bring me home

Guiltknife=The now ex-soldier tries to slit his wrists. Scarsoil and sinstain both would sugest he tries it on the arm he almost lost earlier, but I'm not entirely sure, it may be just that he's still in the middle east, where so many bad things happened to him. Killchrome=knife he used. Footbare=he slips on his own blood.Gone wrong=Someone notices him due to the thud he makes falling down. Blue Lights= Again, an indication that he's in hospital, so they bring him back and (bring me home=) send him back home.

Disclaimer: this is just my opinion. I may be wrong.