Sacrifice

seems like it could also be seen as someone you thought was a friend going and backstabbing you. it kinda describes the feeling I felt when someone did that

This song is not necessarily about being betrayed. It's about having two personalities.(But not necessarily bipolar.

Everyone has a "good" side and a "dark" side. The lyrics that make this the most obvious is:

In a moment you will see my other side

When I'm confronted

My demeanor turns from Jekyl into Hyde

A book, "Dr.Jekyl and Mr.Hyde" is about having two split personalities.

Hell has broken free tonight, and the darker side demands your sacrifice.

While this is true, DeeBeeEmm, it's possible that that part of the song is complimenting how your attitude drastically changes toward whoever betrayed you.

Once someone betrays you, you label them as just that: a traitor. Your dark side is then shown to that person and they see just how "mean" or "evil" you can be.

"You awoke him, now he will feed On the lies"

Explains the betrayal. Basically, "you" caused this to happen. Now the darker side will feed on the lies to survive snd thrive, meaning everytime the narrator even thinks about being nice again, the Mr. Hyde part of him says "remember the lies. let me out."

i feel like this is about a relationship gone wrong? just spit balling.

No Doubt it's about being betrayed. Hard to say if it is by a lover, or maybe a good friend. But based on the rest of the album I would guess it has to do with his finace leaving him.

The song is about a betrayed survivor of the apocalypse who is friends with the horseman of death because in the lyrics it says, "No pale deception anymore". The horseman of death is known to have the appearance to have the body of a "pale" skeleton plus in the begginging of the song it says "our struggled to survive". Another reason why I say that he's the horseman of death besides the adjective "pale" is that one of Disturbes other songs "Old Friend" in the lyrics it says "Death is an old friend of mine".

this post is to all songs in the album Asylum....

all the lyrics in Asylum, even Draiman said so are metaphors to the holocaust... asylum = ghetto, never again (well duh), another way to die = a metaphor that we kill each other in many ways, the infection = the nazis (the infection must die), warrior = that we are now strong and nothing such as that can happen again to us (the jews), crucified = the scientific torture a nazi (Dr. Mangle) did, my child = it talks about Korczak that attempted to save all the orphan children, innocence = that humanity has left the innocent 'phase', the animal = the anger and pain we still hold onto can unfold itself quickly if you attempt to redo the nazi mistake, serpentine = we (the jews) thought everything was good and then suddenly the holocaust started, sacrifice = showing the other side of our mind thats says that we want a sacrifice from to world to show the sorriness and to promise nothing as such will ever happen...

yes im a jew that lives in Israel... and that was proof of the metaphors.. its all about never again and about the asylum...