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Elegy Lyrics

Elegies are to be sung
Winds of armageddon come
Ignorance within your bliss
Soon you will atone for this
In your carcinogenic haze
Baneful of a newer age
Flower of a different scent
Poisons of the earths lament

A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her

Take another deeper breath
Inhale invisible death
Pollution fills the land and sky
Forever you justify
Take a deeper look and see
Nothing's left to future seeds
Icicles melt into blood
Ashes where there once was wood

A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her

Pain of life has pulled you under
Left you there to bleed and wonder
Open heart left torn asunder
Wrong the wrongs that you've been suffered
Kill we scream in roaring thunder
Destroy all, leave all things plundered

Acid rain cries her pain
Full bloom, a world gone insane
Her anger the flower
Plays God with all of our lives

A requiem
Earth belong not to you
Belong all we to her
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Submitted by
ricoetc On Apr 14, 2004
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amazing song....obviously about how humans are destroying the planet, ''her'' being a reference to ''mother nature''. some very powerful lines in this song. love it.

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yeh i agree. it is an awazing song too

Cover art for Elegy lyrics by Machine Head

Its against the attitude that some people have. They think only about today and not about tomorrow the "live this/the moment-attitude". It is a FU to this kind of thinking.

Cover art for Elegy lyrics by Machine Head

I agree, its about destruction of this planet, and how its going to come back and bite back great song

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Black Sabbath - Snowblind

Cover art for Elegy lyrics by Machine Head

Agree with @paper_champion about it being an elegy for the planet we all live on. An elegy is a poem or song that is mournful.

So this is Robb's elegy for the slow death that Earth is suffering, mainly from the harms, greed and selfishness of humans (in general).

Love the lyrics, the vivid imagery and the tone of the music to match the ups and downs of the emotion in the vocals.

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The song here is a condemnation of humanity's recklessness towards the environment, their ignorance, complacency, and pollution, leading to the destruction of the world and its natural systems. An elegy itself is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. Here, the use of elegy implies that it is too late to save the earth from what's been lost; This is Earth's elegy.

Song Meaning
Negative
Subjective
Sadness
Environment
Recklessness
Ignorance
Pollution
Destruction
 
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