This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
We're born to reign as masters
To ashes we'll burn the pastures
Repell their ways back to nothingness
Chaos in symmetry
This glorious victory
In darkness only we can see
Our name has seen the future
Headshot target now on god
Pointblank crimson dawn
Spew forth tomorrow's spawn
Transcend with rage of the elite
The new order come to rise and shine (rise and shine)
Write new history as we wipe and delete
An urge to rid this world of human waste
Weak aside
Defiled bloodlines severed
The lowlife's doom endeavoured
The sheep of masses trampled under our march
Set out to lead and create
This power indulge our fate
This era calls for annihilation
Our whispers outsound prayers
We claimwhat was never theirs
Sworn to the triumph of darkness
Our name has seen the future
Headshot target now on god
Pointblank crimson dawn
Spew forth tomorrow's spawn
Transcend with rage of the elite
The new order come to rise and shine (rise and shine)
Write new history as we wipe and delete
An urge to rid this world of human waste
Weak aside
Down... insects bow to me
Die... insects too blind to see
Down... disgusting foul flea
Die... we remove the life of thee
To ashes we'll burn the pastures
Repell their ways back to nothingness
Chaos in symmetry
This glorious victory
In darkness only we can see
Our name has seen the future
Headshot target now on god
Pointblank crimson dawn
Spew forth tomorrow's spawn
Transcend with rage of the elite
The new order come to rise and shine (rise and shine)
Write new history as we wipe and delete
An urge to rid this world of human waste
Weak aside
Defiled bloodlines severed
The lowlife's doom endeavoured
The sheep of masses trampled under our march
Set out to lead and create
This power indulge our fate
This era calls for annihilation
Our whispers outsound prayers
We claimwhat was never theirs
Sworn to the triumph of darkness
Our name has seen the future
Headshot target now on god
Pointblank crimson dawn
Spew forth tomorrow's spawn
Transcend with rage of the elite
The new order come to rise and shine (rise and shine)
Write new history as we wipe and delete
An urge to rid this world of human waste
Weak aside
Down... insects bow to me
Die... insects too blind to see
Down... disgusting foul flea
Die... we remove the life of thee
Lyrics submitted by Brujeria6SixSeis
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this song i believe speaks of the age were an old religion ruled and new religions involving christ spawned and took down satanism and now it being accused 4 being evil all u anti religious or satanic metal fans do religious history research u will see how christ religions r new like christianity PS if any christians or such and such luv christ so much then u shouldnt b listening 2 this song
Okay, so I can tell you exactly what the song is about. The song is about bloodlines. There is an "elite", "untainted" bloodline that runs throughout humanity and they want to eradicate the "impure" bloodlines. This has been a goal for many many generations. The impure bloodlines are stalked, harassed, tormented.. and all with the hopes of them killing themselves etc. The ones who don't kill themselves will be slaves or put in a shallow grave.
The whole goal is for the elite to reign supreme and flourish and breed so that all of humanity will have a pure bloodline.... That means no more breeding for the filthy impure bloodlines. This objective is actually very much in play in reality.
Believe what you want, but this is what he's talking about. My question is if he's speaking down upon the elite or if he is an elite.
From here on out is what alleged information I have gathered: I'm not too sure, and this is entirely (somewhat educated) speculation, but I believe there are 13 families in the "elite" and their descendants... And then there are 12 bloodlines of "God's" children. The 13 families were originally 12 created in mockery of God's 12. And then there is a mixture of bloodline for the 13th. The 13 are the ones that rule the capitalist and global economy. Again, the 13 "elite" believe the rest of the population or at least and of "God's' chosen to be weak and tainted and they must perish.