Kingdom of Heaven (A New Age Dawns, Part V)

Non intellegens nil explicas Videre nolens nil capies Non intellegens nil explicas Incognita non vides

Translation:

Lacking understanding, you explain nothing Unwilling to see, you will grasp nothing Lacking understanding, you explain nothing You do not see the unknown

~ Sahasrara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahasrara ~ Bardo Thodol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_Thodol

This is such an amazing song. The song is about scientists trying to give an explanation on what life is. But no matter how far they get, they will fail to explain life with science and soo the people will blame the scientists and the geniuses and look toward god and heaven. What they don't realise is that god is every one of us and we can create and manipulate the world around us with thought and that the heaven they preach to is what they are living at this moment.

whoops, nvm, wrong song, that comment was ment for design your own universe

I always considered that song as very pessimistic about humanity as seen through a religious point of view. For me it relates the creation of heaven, operated by divine creatures. The problem is that it never ends ; to complete their "work", to make the paradise better and better, to understand and govern the rules of the world, they have to relativize all the time, to refers themselves to spiritual creeds, to explore and exploit capacities and theories over and over again, untill they reach their extreme depths. They spend their whole time in a hard work that involves a rigor that became usual, as the frustrations they have to live if they want to "progress". The problem is that of course they're not quiet ; they've totally gone mad. They've locked themselves in their delirium. We could imagine that a song about the creation of heaven, about heavenly creatures would be light, quiet, amazed, etc. But here they're is a rythm always very fast, very marked, with agressive voices, and melodies that seems totally out of control. They lost themselves in their erudition, they're jailed in their fierce and unending work, their perfection has reached its own vice. So the mortals that come up to the paradise are expelled with anger : in this world of erudition, of perfection, of outcome, they doesn't mean anything, they don't belong. Eventually it's funny because this "kingdom of heaven" is more like a kind of hell. Epica have always been pessimistic – in a certain way, I'm caricaturing – about humanity. Here it's so important that it reached the gods themselves. We can imagine that the perfection that religious people gives to their gods is relativized here... a such perfection can only eat itself. It's my interpretation. (sorry if there's a few mistakes, I'm french !)

I think the song is about the economy and how everybody is worried and hoping for someone to come and save us all. However, the only way that we can be saved is to save ourselves by using our own intelligence instead of depending on some magical forever promised redemption. That is just my opinion \m/

from what i hear and gather from the song, it's partially about the mayan society breaking down after being promised a new king who would liberate them from slavery and sacrifices, unfortunately the king couldn't keep his promise and thus the kingdom is in war and chaos

that's the physical aspect of it

the spiritual aspect of it is how the people truly believe ascending into an after life or expecting hope.