| Elena Siegman – Beauty of Annihilation Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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TL;DR: it's an anti-Nazi song. The line "Execute hemlock philosophy" is actually the reference to Greek philosopher Socrates, sentenced to death for his supposedly blasphemous teachings. He was forced to drink a mixture of hemlock. In the line "Poison fills the cup of the carpenter", the phrase "cup of the carpenter" refers to the Holy Grail - if you remember that Jesus was a carpenter, and consider the Holy Grail scene in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", you'll remember that the real Grail in the movie was carved from wood. This also ties into the line "Looks like your prophet was mistaken" near the end. German forces had the words "Gott Mit Uns" (God (is) With Us) stamped on their belt buckles, and despite some of the Third Reich's leaders' fascination with the occult, particularly Nordic myths, considered themselves a Christian nation - hence the "poison fills the cup of the carpenter" reference. Who's the mistaken prophet - you decide. The lines "And reason / Is treason" again tie into the Socrates reference: his trial was heavily political, as he was a well-known critic of the Athenian government, moreso after the lost war with Sparta. He argumented against the "might makes right" approach that necessarily leads to armed conflicts, and that was considered treason and blasphemy. Similarly, the Third Reich executed many people for their anti-war convictions. "Seven point six two" refers to the rifle ammunition used both by US and Russian forces during World War II (.30 cal. is 7.62mm in metric, the Russian forces predominantly used the 7.62x54R Mosin round, with the smaller 7.62x39 mm round introduced late in the war), while "seven point nine two" refers to the German 7.92x57 mm Mauser and later 7.92x33 mm Kurz rounds. Notice the wording: "bring ME down with 7.62", "bring YOU down with 7.92". This means that those who revel in the "beauty of annihilation", going against "all that's good and clean" use 7.92 mm guns - like the Third Reich. |
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