Locust

First of all - AWESOME SONG!!!

Second - click the link below to read what Robb had to say about it's meaning when interviewed. This link also contains the proper lyrics. Enjoy! :)

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=159399

Those don't sound like the correct lyrics... I just tried following the song with these and it doesn't sound right, nor do these make any sense.

I found lyrics that actually sound right on metalstorm.net:

Sweet caress Grazes my skin It's loveless These hooks sink in Behind an angel's disguise An insect preys Mandibles cut like a knife The reckoning

Forming clouds Their shadow shrouds Louder the tattered wings they sound Descending

Down they come The swarm of locusts Skies above Converge to choke us Feast of souls Consume the harvest Young and old Suffer unto the locust

Surrender These veins are bled Devoured Nothing sacred Strings pull the marionettes See how they dance Upon the winds that beget Our pestilence

Forming clouds Their shadow shrouds Louder the tattered wings they sound Descending

Down they come The swarm of locusts Skies above Converge to choke us Feast of souls Consume the harvest Young and old Suffer unto the locust

Bleeding from my eyes This plague is sent to erase us Bleeding from inside These vermin can't infiltrate us

Faith appears and holds a candle Hark the angels sing

Forming clouds Their shadow shrouds Louder the tattered wings they sound

Tear the veil The lies derail Purity ever will prevail

Trumpets sound The shattered crown Halos of truth now they surround The charade comes down

Down they come The swarm of locusts Skies above Converge to choke us Feast of souls Consume the harvest Young and old Suffer unto the locust

Those are the lyrics I found on metalstorm.net...

"Locust", is a concept I came up with, based on a few people I have encountered in my life, just like everybody has. The type of person that just comes into your life under a different guise, under false pretenses, to befriend you, be your buddy, be your man, be on your team, or, you know, to be your lover or whatever. Their goal is just to soak up all your resources and just to drain you of all you've got, whatever you have to offer. Once they're discovered, they fly off into the next crop and drain that of everything. Yeah, it just feels like hell.

Phil Demmel / Mayhem Festival Interview

Demmel explained the meaning behind the song, writing that it's purely metaphorical and not about the biblical Locusts. “Nothing Biblical about people coming into your life and harvesting everything from you before upping and flying away after they drain you of all they can.” It's much more about a leeching, malicious person exploiting someone for their own personal gain, rather than a literal swarm of locusts attacking a civilization.

Exodus 10 recounts the eighth plague God sent to Egypt because Pharaoh would not release the Jews from slavery:

"14 The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again. 15 They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt."

All throughout the Bible this plague of locusts is referred back to and used as imagery for God's judgement. Sometimes God sends the proverbial swarm of locusts into our life to get our attention, as punishment for sins, to remind us we live in a fallen world and this is not our home, to get us to look upwards towards Him for salvation - the list could go on.

But the important thing and the glorious thing is that these trials are temporary. God promises to bring those who love Him into glory, either in this life or the next. Either way, we have the hope of glory to look forward to.

The song alludes to this in the last stanza:

"These vermin cannot infiltrate us Faith appears and holds a candle hark the angels sing"

Compare with Joel 2:25, "I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you."

There is a candle in the darkness. The Lord is faithful to restore the years the locust has eaten. Look to Him who can save you.

You could just buy the CD. Then you'd know what the lyrics are...