| Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The setting is that of an audience coming to see a puppet-show. This skit/song then goes through a historical timeline: from the primitive ages, moving into medieval times, and then to the World Wars. The skit reveals the brokenness of the world we live in, and how there has been times where there was hope for change (like after WWI), but that hope was short-lived and futile. We find ourselves WATCHING the audience, and appalled by their reaction to the brokenness. They are thoroughly entertained by history and have no intention to learn from its mistakes and downfalls. At the end of the timeline however, we find the audience now on the stage. The audience's ignorance (or even apathy) towards history only meant that they are now the next "symbol of brokenness" in the timeline. And now, we are WATCHING them. We are the NEW audience, watching the OLD audience on the stage, and the poignant question to us is whether we'd be the next ones on stage for a new audience to scorn. Quickly, the second plot twist is revealed: that the audience ended up on the stage because of the hands of a few higher-ups. Our fate, it seems, rests ultimately in the hands of a greater government, and we are told to wake up before we find ourselves bending the knee to a government that would REALLY end us up on the stage for a future audience. A very apt song for a very present reality. |
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