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2 Minutes To Midnight Lyrics
Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The Golden Goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.
CHORUS
The killer's breed or the demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb.
The blind men shout let the creatures out
We'll show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time Belsen feast...YEAH!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.
CHORUS
The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.
CHORUS
Midnight...all night...
Indeed about the Cold War. Actually, the "2 minutes" refers to an actual system the U.S. used to determine how close they were to nuclear war, Midnight being the start of the nuclear holocaust. I don't believe the clock ever reached as close as two minutes though. Great song nonetheless. I love the guitar solos.
@Pennybags well it's finally happening...
@Pennybags well it's finally happening...
@Pennybags eyyup the clock is still at two minutes to midnight in 2019
@Pennybags eyyup the clock is still at two minutes to midnight in 2019
@Pennybags The two minutes to midnight occured during the cuban missile crisis.
@Pennybags The two minutes to midnight occured during the cuban missile crisis.
@Pennybags The Clock was developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and 11:58 pm happened after the Soviet Union first tested a hydrogen bomb. Otherwise, everyone is correct.
@Pennybags The Clock was developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and 11:58 pm happened after the Soviet Union first tested a hydrogen bomb. Otherwise, everyone is correct.
It's about the Doomsday Clock, which as has been previously mentioned, refers to a system used to determine how close the world is to nuclear war.
thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/history.htm
@crinos the link you displayed no longer exists. How long ago was it up?
@crinos the link you displayed no longer exists. How long ago was it up?
The song does indeed refer to the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The clock reached 2 minutes to midnight during the Cold War in 1953 when the US and the Soviet Union tested thermonuclear devices within nine months of each other.
According to the clock this is the closest the human race has come to destruction through nuclear war since the clock's introduction in 1947. Currently the clock is at 7 minutes to midnight.
@Fundamental Welp I’m sorry to say but it’s at 2 minutes again has been for a couple years now
@Fundamental Welp I’m sorry to say but it’s at 2 minutes again has been for a couple years now
I love the part about "The Golden Goose is on the loose, and never out of season" I'm pretty sure this is about how the american public were constantly told that the threat of a nuclear strike was an ever present possibility, the golden goose being this kind of unseen, almost mythical threat.
@quiffporn the golden goose is the profit made form war. And war sure makes a lot of profit for the arms companies.
@quiffporn the golden goose is the profit made form war. And war sure makes a lot of profit for the arms companies.
@quiffporn You obviously didn't grow up during the nuclear arms race, and I'm happy for you. But there was nothing "mythical" about the threat my generation grew up under, especially with war-mongering lunatics like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in power. (And on behalf of all of us, from all countries, who fought like hell to stop the insanity, you're welcome.)
@quiffporn You obviously didn't grow up during the nuclear arms race, and I'm happy for you. But there was nothing "mythical" about the threat my generation grew up under, especially with war-mongering lunatics like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in power. (And on behalf of all of us, from all countries, who fought like hell to stop the insanity, you're welcome.)
I don't know much about the cold war. what i got from this song was it being about all countries who make war. particularly the US and other western countries and the war in iraq. i know this song was probably written long before. but this is my meaning for this song.
Ok. heres why: "Kill for gain or shoot to maim"
Oil is gain
"But we don't need a reason"
Saddam hussain hiding WMDs or is he?? obviously they dont need a reason
"The Golden Goose is on the loose"
IRONxxxMAIDEN 44 said the golden goose was a term for capitalism. hence western countries...
"And never out of season"
The U.S. always seems to be sticking their noses in
"Some blackened pride still burns inside This shell of bloody treason" & "Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain"
Pride for "Freedom and Liberty", which is being treasoned against by enforcing it on other nations. Its not freedom if its being enforced.
"Here's my gun for a barrel of fun For the love of living death." & "The glamour, the fortune..." As a culture we idolise and glorify violence and war. look at console games (not that i'm complaining i love FPS games) but we've made war seem fun (barrel of fun).
"The blind men shout let the creatures out We'll show the unbelievers" & "As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,"
People have been decieved into blind patriotism, believing that anything apart from democracy is evil. (just for the record the US isn't a democracy)
"We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies" =ppl sending their children off to war (ne'er to return)
theres lots of other links as well. like i said, this is just my interpretation of the song, the cold war stuff's prolly more on the line although a lot of this can also tie in with that.
I think it's more about war in general and politics of war.
The napalm is referencing vietnam
Belsen feast references WW2 (Belsen was a concentration camp)
And I don't think anything is talking about Saddam and WMD, considering this song came out in late 80's, Saddam was still our friend and any WMD he had, he got from us and we didn't care :)
This song IS about the cold war. We were 2 minutes from midnight (a nuclear holocaust). The unborn in the womb was the action of launching. Killing it would be to give in and fire.
@R-A-M-O-N-E-S the unborn in the womb was the missile in its silo. Pushing the button would bring about the missiles birth
@R-A-M-O-N-E-S the unborn in the womb was the missile in its silo. Pushing the button would bring about the missiles birth
this song is so great, iron maiden is the best metal band ever.
i fotta agree with u they are fucking incredible
i fotta agree with u they are fucking incredible
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This song rocks, at first I didn't like it but now I think it kicks ass. It's obviously about dictators and their regimes, i.e. Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. Great lyrics, great song, Iron Maiden kicks ass.
yeh the video is about russian commie rulers and such
@BeastWithin its about all sides in war. How they profit from war, and send the young to fight and die. The unborn in the womb is the nuke in its silo waiting to born and hitting those enemy nuke before theyre fired is killing the unborn in the womb , which is what you have to do to survive nuclear holocaust , destroy all or as many enemy nukes before theyre launched other wise were all dead.
@BeastWithin its about all sides in war. How they profit from war, and send the young to fight and die. The unborn in the womb is the nuke in its silo waiting to born and hitting those enemy nuke before theyre fired is killing the unborn in the womb , which is what you have to do to survive nuclear holocaust , destroy all or as many enemy nukes before theyre launched other wise were all dead.