I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
When a person turns to wrong
Is it a want to be, belong?
Part of things at any cost
At what price a life is lost
At what point do we begin
Figher spirit a will to win
But what makes a man decide
Take the wrong or righteous road
There's a thin line between love and hate
Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
There's a grey place between black and white
But everyone does have the right to
choose the path that he takes
We all like to put the blame
On society these things
But what kind of good or bad
a new generation brings
Sometines takes just more than that
To survive be good at heart
There is evil in some of us
No matter what will never change
I will hope
My soul will fly
So I will live forever
Heart will die
My soul will fly
I will live forever
Just a few small tears between
Someone happy and one sad
Just a thin line drawn between
being a genius or insane
At what age begin to learn
of which way out we will turn
There's a long and winding road
And the trail is there to burn
There's a thin line between love and hate
Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
There's a grey place between black and white
But everyone does have the right to
choose the path that he takes
I will hope
My soul will fly
So I will live forever
Heart will die
My soul will fly
I will live forever
There's a thin line between love and hate
Is it a want to be, belong?
Part of things at any cost
At what price a life is lost
At what point do we begin
Figher spirit a will to win
But what makes a man decide
Take the wrong or righteous road
There's a thin line between love and hate
Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
There's a grey place between black and white
But everyone does have the right to
choose the path that he takes
We all like to put the blame
On society these things
But what kind of good or bad
a new generation brings
Sometines takes just more than that
To survive be good at heart
There is evil in some of us
No matter what will never change
I will hope
My soul will fly
So I will live forever
Heart will die
My soul will fly
I will live forever
Just a few small tears between
Someone happy and one sad
Just a thin line drawn between
being a genius or insane
At what age begin to learn
of which way out we will turn
There's a long and winding road
And the trail is there to burn
There's a thin line between love and hate
Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
There's a grey place between black and white
But everyone does have the right to
choose the path that he takes
I will hope
My soul will fly
So I will live forever
Heart will die
My soul will fly
I will live forever
There's a thin line between love and hate
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I've not long Finished reading Brave new World, and what RainbowDemon is saying really fits the song well.
"At what age begin to learn of which way out we will turn" This Seems to be talking about the 'conditioning' that every child in Brave new world have to go through. At what age do they begin their path? As soon as they are decanted, they have their social class specified and have no way to change that.
This seems to follow John's Final bleak outlook on life and society very well, about how he feels everything is much too complicated, not just a good and bad, or love and hate. The thin Line between love and Hate, for John, seems to be crossed when Lenina trys moving on John, who Loved her, but snaps at the sight of her (last chapter) and whips her almost. if not, to death.
Well, thats how i see the song anyway. Great song.
@Ikkie Pretty much what I was thinking as well! :)<br /> Nicely put! :)
I get a different reading from this song. 'When a person turns to wrong, is it a want to be, belong?' I think resumes the specifics of what the song serves to speak about. Not everyone finds fulfillment in the same mode of being, the song is exploring the 'darker side' of the psyche. Upon realizing the importance of serving all that is good, what then after makes a person turn to wrong? 'Is it a want to be', is highly ambiguous: it might mean to say is it a natural inclination to want to be otherwise, to not want to subsume some accepted or aspired to mode of being; 'belong' has it that a person's turning to being outwardly wrong is another way of fashioning a persona and through that persona the person gains a sense of belong as that thing which is naturally deviate from the more regular drive to be good. This 'fighter spirit' does duty for what I have called being good. This song seems to be from the point of view of someone who has chosen good encountering another who has chosen a different path, who does not display the same fighter's spirit, and is reflecting back on when and how it was that they themselves came to deciding to being a certain way. The reflection leads this guy to decide that he who has chosen the 'wrong road' is not bad per se, that there is a large ambiguous grey zone of possible reasons, drives, motives, sentimentalities... that could have caused this other to choose the wrong road. The song, in one fugue, speaks of acceptance, but in the other, 'my soul will fly and I will live forever', to me, it seems that the right road the speaker has chosen is hoped to lead them to or maintain for them their immortality. So, again this grey zone, the righteous path is neither wholly selfless. What is then being called to choose the wrong road, let's imagine a road of decay, indecency, callousness, surliness, might have its roots in apprehension, delicacy, preference or straight out fear. In certain senses the wrong road is in some cases not a deliberate choice, but a suspension of one, while the man reflecting realizes that he at one point or other decided to be how he is.
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Maby the black and the white is the good and bad of love or hate.This is a kick ass song and he hopes that his soul will fly forever i dont know that part throws me off...
By the soul will fly part i think he means his image in the world will live forever. and iron maiden certainly has one.
By soul will fly he means that he'll live on forever in the spirit world and through reincarnation, all that kinda stuff. grey place between Black and white is just a metaphor for the difference between good and bad, theres a subtle difference between love and hate, but theres a bigger and more noticable difference between good and bad, or black and white metaphorically! Also he's saying nothing is as simple as black and white, threres an inbetween bit, so everyones got the right to do what they want cos nothing is set in stone
This song is the concluding song about Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It generalises the theories put forth in the book and analyzes them. It is from the point of view of John the Savage, because he understands in the end that he will escape the world that he is from and will go on to eternity where he will be free and live forever. the_apparition has some good points, if you throw that in with what I'm talking about from the book then it all makes sense. John realises that the world is so much more complex than had ever realised.
@RainbowDemon John never thought of the world as complex though. He was fully capable of knowing what the world was, and how twisted and humanless society had become. This song probably has nothing to do with John, nor the resolution to BNW, but I can see where you're coming from. This song is really just about how thin the line good and bad, and love and hate can be.
This is an amazing song. I'm sure you guys are right about the meanings: the_apparition/RainbowDemon. I just like to sit and think about how life is, about how their is a thin line between love and hate and how their is a thin line between good and bad. When you get put in those peer pressure situations or just random situations where it's just a yes or no answer, that could go from you doing the nicest thing you'll ever do in your life to the most horrible and wicked thing you'll ever do in your life. This song is very amazing.