| Architects – Royal Beggars Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I think this is about the fact that none of us really have control of anything and we’ve all forgotten that and lost our way. We try to control everything and we act as if we’re gods and expect to be catered and bowed down to (“waiting for God to bend the knee”). We are all actually only beggars because we control so little and need so much, and our society toils on in this pursuit of a perceived power that doesn’t exist. Even the kings are beggars because they don’t control everyone and they can’t control when they love or die or so many other things, but we all live in denial of these facts and try to set ourselves up as our own gods. | |
| Architects – Black Lungs Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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A lot of religious undertones here, but I think he’s using religious imagery we in the west are all familiar with illustrate a point about our elites. The “Gods” clipping the wings of the Phoenix are the elites that have created a system that virtually can’t be fought against or reset, and we all need to get rid of them (cutting the roots of the weeds). No place to go if we don’t believe - the tyrannical narrative that’s being forced down all of our throats by our overlords while they steal and kill and destroy to continue further enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense. We are heading to hell on earth as if life isn’t hard enough already, and if we all collectively don’t come to terms with the lies and do something to preserve the original free market system built on the notion that every individual person matters equally then we will be lost forever to the new techno-tyranny that’s emerging rapidly. I think he uses this theme in other songs as well but this one is more explicit and I, of course, described the “system” in my own terms but it really is what’s happening all around us while we all sit back not knowing what to do because they’ve built such an impenetrable system and cut off all peaceful means of reform and yet violent revolutions always end up worse, so that’s also not a solution. |
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