| 30 Seconds to Mars – End of All Days Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This seems to be a critique of religion. It starts with the general threat that people that preach use, ie "the end is coming, praise god to save yourselves" to expose the weird ungodly need for faith, worship and praise of particular "Gods". It goes on to describe the personal feelings and existential angst that disciples and preachers take advantage of, to lure someone in. The song describes the manipulative side of mesianic figures (men or deities is left uncertain), the destructive paths they sometimes send their followers on, and the distortion and perversion by them of things like love, life and pleasure. The refrain is a sarcastic plea for faith, which is usually what is simplistically/deceptively and curiously proposed from religious figures as the only thing that's needed for someone to find meaning, fulfill his destiny, and save himself. |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Night of the Hunter Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I should add that most of the song is sung from the point of view of the hunter. | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – Night of the Hunter Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I find the obsession with religion and the wild unfounded conjectures really weird. Jared himself has spoken about the song, the lyrics are pretty clear, and the title even clearer! "My brother and I were born in Louisiana, we had a single mom... who, at the time, was a high school dropout living in the South, [so we] really didn't have very much in terms of materialistic things. And although we moved out of the South when we were kids – you know, we joke we kind of climbed out of the muddy banks of the Mississippi River with food stamps in one hand and our instruments in the other – our mother helped carve a new life for us. And I think that song has some spirit of the South in it; some kind of American Gothic feel"[4] Tie the above with "The Night of the Hunter" --which is an American Gothic novel, where a deranged religious (in a sick sort of way) ex-con serial killer "priest", marries and murders widows (whom he finds immoral and sinners) and in one instance literally hunts his latest wife's children (after he murderred her, and honest to god had told her about it just before) while alternating between exhibiting love (don't be affraid of the dark) and hate for them (and the children are confused too, for they had come to think of him as father, eg when the police brutalize him they beg them not to)-- and the novel's symbolism for the American South's social corruption, distortion of religion, and instability, and how the Southern society "hunts" its children, and you have the song's meaning: A song about problematic roots, and overcoming, escaping them. |
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