Blood Red Skies

I love this part:

"As the end is drawing near Standing proud, I won't give in to fear As I die a legend will be born I will stand, I will fight You'll never take me alive I'll stand my ground I won't go down"

Amazing

Makes me think the likes of Kyle Reese from the first Terminator.

I feel this is an angry struggle against religious views of homosexuality. I believe those laser eyes and the pneumatic fingers which nearly had him in their vice, was about the urging of religion telling him that he can't give in to his sexual tendencies, and the fear of going to hell if he did being imprinted on his mind, and him struggling against that. Saying "you can't break me...." What my personal views of this are isn't revelant, so lets not get into any of that.

I read somewhere that it was influenced by the future of The Terminator, but I don't know how credible it was. It would make sense, though, Either way, it will always be an amazing song.

The seventh son of the seventh son has all power,and is sole owner of all things,they all try to destroy him,and also mankind.

I think it reminds me of the struggle between God and the Devil. The Devil is always running and hiding from final judgement but at the end , they will fight one another under a blood red sky. The beginning of the conflict is described almost at the beginning: "Felt the hand of justice Telling wrong from right Threw me out upon the street in the middle of the night." Meaning that Lucifer where cast out from heaven and stripped off his former glory in the middle of this age for his rebelion against the Laws of God. But that he is constantly surveyed by angelic and divine forces while roaming a broken world:"Through a shattered city, watched by laser eyes Overhead the night squad glides The decaying paradise

Automatic sniper With computer sights Scans the bleak horizon for its victim of the night."

He is certain that his time is almost at an end and that he is using the lack of spiritual insight as a cover for his deeds and existence. The downside of this is that he has to deal with his upcoming final judgement and increasing mockery from believers: "As the sun goes down, I move around Keeping to the shadows Life, hangs by a thread And I've heard it said, that I'll not see tomorrow.

But even though he is in this position he refuses to back Down and repent. But is determined to fight the heavens to the bitter end:"You won't break me You won't make me You won't take me Under blood red skies."

That is my interpretation.

This song almost perfectly mirrors the Butlerian Jihad from Dune. It's close enough to be a soundtrack for it.

fist comment? really? doesnt sound like typical priest but its still a classic "You won't break me You won't make me You won't take me"

Seems to be about every bad sci-fi from the 80s.