Eye for an Eye

This song is wrong, true passages are: Does our ruin benefit the Earth" (not rule) "Are you loved by all?" (not god)

That's it. This song explains exactly the nature of the landsharks, and one of the best videos on Earth. Think you can box it?

Good song.

Pretty obvious message regarding pacifism and the savage nature of mankind.

Yeah, we suck.

Part of the dialogue here is taken from Terrence Malik's "The Thin Red Line." Explosions in the Sky uses the same quote.

After reading some Youtube comments in the Video Clip and analyzing it, I reached to a very valid interpretation. This song is about the end of times prophecy, it's about the corruption of the humanity, causing your own end.

"Even now in Heaven There were Angels carrying savage weapons"

This verse, makes reference to the Angel War in the heavens, that started with the betrayal and the corruption of Lucifer. The hell, the demons, the evil beings of the spiritual realm, just were created by the corruption of one pure being.

In the clip, after this verse, we have a book opening yourself for us. What makes reference to the prophecy of the end of the times, prophecies are written, just as legends, tales, and other types of histories.

After that, we have scenes of the little beings of the clip just living, this little little buddies represents us, the humanity. I believe that the planes carrying that giant have a more abstract meaning, the planes should represent the other humans. In our actual age, we live in a world naturally corrupted, we don't corrupt our selves, the other people that bring the corruption to us. Nowadays, looks like everyone that are in the top of our society, is dishonest and corrupt, planes are symbol of wealth.

And the great being, probably represent the corruption itself, the desire of being superior, of being above the others, the greed and other bad feelings and desires. The teats and the buddies sucking it, represent the people that surrender himself for the corruption, thinking that this is the only way to live. The baby needs of the maternal milk to survive, because of that he cries to catch the attention of your mother to be breastfed, because he knows that he needs this, its a natural instinct.

After this, a black milk starts to be spat, and some dark ghostly wasps starts to get out too. The meaning here is nothing special, this represents the corruption of the human beings, wasps are venomous insects, they poison the pure humans with the corruption, that enter in they veins and transform them into aberrations, despicable and repulsive.

"An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth"

These 2 strophes make reference to the Talion law, that is a rule created in the Babylonian Empire, that consists in the reciprocity of the crime and the penalty. The most famous part of this law is that in which it is said that If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye, and if a man knock out a tooth of another man, they shall knock out his tooth. This makes reference to the fact that everything we made have consequences, the evil and corruption of the mankind, is exclusively consequence of the men actions.

"Run, Run, Run But you sure can't hide"

This verse says that don't matter what we do, don't matter to where we run, the corruption and the end of mankind is inevitable, the corruption or the doom we'll catch you soon.

"Does our rule benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow? The sun to shine? Is this darkness in you too? Have you passed through this night?"

This verse is very obvious, it questions if our rule above the planet is bringing some benefit to the earth, and the quick answer is: no, we're just destroying our homeland. "Have you passed through this night?" probably say that we don't have so much time remaining, we probably will be not here to another day.

"This great evil, where's it coming from? How'd it steal into the world? Who's doing this? Who's killing us? Mocking us with the sight of what we might have known"

The answer is simple, this evil come as result of our actions, the humanity actions. We could realizes that and tried to change our future, our destiny, but we didn't.

The clip ends with the corrupted creatures, placing a flag with Red, Green and Blue colors, these are colors of the standard color compositions of a standard image (RGB), returning to the idea of the dishonesty and corruption are normal way to live in our age.

An the clip end with the corrupted creatures entering inside the giant, and the giant flying with the planes to another place, to corrupt more creatures and colonize another planets. The corruption spreads yourself to everywhere, and will be bringed by more humans to another humans.

"Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this?

Are you loved by God? Do you imagine your suffering's will be lost? Because you loved goodness, truth?"

When this sample is played, the giant is closing yourself with the corrupted creatures inside, whats gives to understand that these are questions of one corrupted creature inside, a corrupted human questioning your own action in your life. But unfortunately it's to late, the damage is done, and everything already happened, 'Where you're going you're not coming back from".

An the song ends with the quote:

"What are you to me?"

that probably talks about the corrupted being don't think about other people, they don't care if they hurt our deceive other people to grant their objectives, they don't consider people that isn't like as humans, but just as tools, as insignificant beings.