Don't you hit that defenseless child
What gives you that empty right
Carry that for the rest of your life
Carry that for the rest of time
Did they hold you down oh yeah
Did they push you around oh yeah
Burning in the black sun
Like a jackle on the run
Burning in the black sun
Burning up in the black sun oh yeah
Rotten apples every one
Look at them
Look at them run
Guilty now for what they have done
Did they hold you down oh yeah
Did they push you around oh yeah
Burning in the black sun
Like a dog on the run
Burning in the black sun
Well the time has finally come oh yeah
Black sun
Like a jackel on the run oh yeah
Burning in the black, the black sun
Caught their vien,you've gone insane
You've lost your mind,you're not my kind
I hate your soul, you kill my fun
You did no good, you better run
Gonna get you down, gonna put you down
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna make you oh gonna make you whoa
Burning in the black sun black sun
Burning in the black sun
Don't you hit that defenseless child
What gives you that empty right
Burning in the black sun black sun
Like a dog on the run
Black sun
Yeah you were a bully
The universal bullies
Who's laughing at you now
Who's laughing at you now
You ain't got no hold on me
You ain't got no piece of me
You are lost in your own mind yes you are you're declining in
Oh yeah black sun
Black sun
What gives you that empty right
Carry that for the rest of your life
Carry that for the rest of time
Did they push you around oh yeah
Like a jackle on the run
Burning in the black sun
Rotten apples every one
Look at them
Look at them run
Guilty now for what they have done
Did they push you around oh yeah
Like a dog on the run
Burning in the black sun
Well the time has finally come oh yeah
Black sun
Like a jackel on the run oh yeah
Burning in the black, the black sun
You've lost your mind,you're not my kind
I hate your soul, you kill my fun
You did no good, you better run
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna make you oh gonna make you whoa
Burning in the black sun
What gives you that empty right
Burning in the black sun black sun
Like a dog on the run
Yeah you were a bully
The universal bullies
Who's laughing at you now
Who's laughing at you now
You ain't got no piece of me
You are lost in your own mind yes you are you're declining in
Oh yeah black sun
Black sun
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Great tune from their 1994 album. Obviously speaks of child abuse. Good story arc wherein the beginning is the outcry of injustice against the innocent kid, the black sun I assume is hell. Funny this came out right around when "Black Hole Sun" came out by Soundgarden. I think this is a far better song. The story arc occurs where the speech focuses on how the abused child turns into the seeker and executor of vengeance and/or the abuser clearly gets what's coming to them: justice. Generally, abuse takes on such cosmic, eerie, permanent meaning when it permeates in the child from not only the event itself but for years and years later, doing the real and permanent damage to the young adult's present and future, and adults often who never heal from the abuse. However, in this song, the adult abused child seems to have processed the past, and evolved. He/She now realizes THEY have tremendous power, and that the abuse is completely in the past, that their abuser can no longer hurt them. They speak of justice in return, but more importantly they speak about how THEY can now interpret the past differently and even sum it up so simply as "Yeah, you were a bully". And that's it - you were not a destroyer of me or my life, you were not a God, you were just a screwed up person who bullied a little kid. Great song, and I hope abused kids who are older now perhaps benefit even if only 1% from the way this song speaks to their pain and their personal power to overcome it and rewrite not only their past, but their future as well.