Dark Days

Dark Days is obviously an apocalyptic song. It’s an angry reaction, a response on what we think we’re doing. It’s a hard, unvarnished mirror they are holding in front of us, the cold truth.

“What will you tell your children when they ask you: What went wrong? How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost To eyes that know only a wasteland” -It’s a reproach to the past and the current generation. Blaming them for the beautiful world we’ve lost. How could we do this to the future generation? How will you explain yourself when they ask you how the good old days were, while they live with the consequences we caused, due to ignorance, indifference and selfishness.

“How will you justify Justify, watching the world die” -Again, how will you explain yourself. Because no matter what you’ve done, you’ve participated to this perished world at one point in your life.

“The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered Head first into disaster from which there will be no return With narrow minds, we decimate our one true home Cast into oblivion, judgment is calling” -Everybody knows we’re damaging and destroying the world and it’s nature. And when we will reach the worlds limit, there will be no turning back. All we will be able to say is ‘what if…’. With our selfish minds we’ve been destroying the planet we live on piece by piece (decimate = thinning out, chopping of). Our indifference for the state of our mother nature will backfire, resulting in destruction.

“Behold the pale horse This is the funeral of the Earth Behold the pale horse This is the funeral” -I’ve done some research on this ‘pale horse’, and it appears to be a reference to a chapter in the Book of Revelation (last book of the new testament). The Four Horsemen of the apocalypse. One by one the riders came. First the White Horse, representing ‘false peace’, the antichrist gaining strength and conquering the world. Second came the Red Horse, who brought war and slaughter. Third came the Black Horse, who let the crops die, what led to failing harvest, and resulted in famine and diseases. Last came the Pale Horse, bringer of death. So this pale horse represents the death of the earth, what led to its funeral.

“The blind eye can no longer be cast The clock is ticking, there is no second chance” -When the world ends as we know it, you will no longer be able to act like you had no idea what was going on all this time. If the so-called apocalypse will happen it will be beyond recall, definite. We won’t be given a second planet Earth.

“The blind eye can no longer be cast There will be no future if we can't learn from our mistakes The clock is ticking, there is no second chance There will be no future if we can't learn” -If we continue to live like this, there will be no hope for the next generation. And they’ll have to live with the mistakes we’ve made.

“A forced extinction closes out the age of apathy The final act– sacrifice the world's ecology The death of beauty, the death of hope Cast before the throne of avarice, judgment is calling” -We will be forced into a world’s ending due to our indifference. We are sacrificing the Earth’s nature for our own good, which results in the destruction of it. Death of the beautiful nature we have and we should cherish. We are sitting on a throne of greed, and eventually we’ll pay the price.

“I can't watch it burn!” -Horrible to witness what’s happening to our planet.

“Behold the pale horse!” -Behold our ending