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| Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[anonymousity:19289] Hey I find your interpretation very similar to mine, with one exeption. I think the stage itself is a symbol for mass manipulation (like the central theme of the song Goddamn in the same album). If we look at the lyrics ''Who is the crowd that peers through the cage, as we perform here upon the stage'' and even ''you do know this is just a simulation, don't you?'', I think that the stage here represents the place for a social show, the crowd peering through the cage being like you said an allmighty government, pulling the strings of the puppets the masses are made to be, and making the masses (us) ''perform'' all this social bullshit that is ironically, as ''the fantastical history of the world'' show lets us see (name from music video) our human history. So the idea of a stage is to me such an amazing perceptive use of literary imagery to portray this idea of manipulation, while at the same time criticizing our society with all the bluntness Avenged Sevenfold is awesome for having. I also have a hypothesis which I am not sure of but here goes : the narrator of the song might be Satan ? I think this might be valid from a certain point of view, for example with ''so I arrived, naked and cold'', which COULD symbolize Satan arriving on earth, and could explain why the narrator talks about the human race with direct association with it. |
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