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The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills Lyrics
From the weeping womb to the tomb
Towering fuming smokestacks loomed
Aloft the emancipated industrial
mercantile maroon
Your heirs will be deprived this fate
A penitentiary as consumer villeins
Never to enter through
the grim rusting factory gates
Six, zero, two, six
Nine, six, one
Torn apart in the soul destroying...
Six, zero, two, six
Nine, six, one
The granulating dark satanic mills...
Subsisting shackled drudgers & drones
Disassembly line of skin & bone
Collieries not beaches
lie beneath the paving stones
When chattel black turned to white
Rigid binding chains were hidden from sight
The unborn will quench
the thirstful smouldering kiln's fires
Six, zero, two, six
Nine, six, one
Torn apart in the soul destroying...
Six, zero, two, six
Nine, six, one
Sweat & no redemption in the dark satanic mills
An existence, subservient, binded you'll see
"A working class hero is something to be"
An existence, subservient, blinded you'll seed
A working class hero is something to bleed
Towering fuming smokestacks loomed
Aloft the emancipated industrial
mercantile maroon
A penitentiary as consumer villeins
Never to enter through
the grim rusting factory gates
Nine, six, one
Nine, six, one
Disassembly line of skin & bone
Collieries not beaches
lie beneath the paving stones
Rigid binding chains were hidden from sight
The unborn will quench
the thirstful smouldering kiln's fires
Nine, six, one
Nine, six, one
"A working class hero is something to be"
An existence, subservient, blinded you'll seed
A working class hero is something to bleed
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No idea what the numbers mean (I've been googling like crazy) but the song seems to be (again) about industry, production, dehumanization
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Thanks for the reply, this is the first concrete interpretation I've read. That's amazing but so obscure. Although, the last line does say "...a working class hero is something to bleed" so it sort of falls into place.
Thanks for the reply, this is the first concrete interpretation I've read. That's amazing but so obscure. Although, the last line does say "...a working class hero is something to bleed" so it sort of falls into place.
First of all you can take away the number of the beast. You are left with 0291. Since it's about industry, it's more likely that they refer to 1920 instead of 0291. 1920 is the year band-aid was invented. Reference to the albumtitle?
First of all you can take away the number of the beast. You are left with 0291. Since it's about industry, it's more likely that they refer to 1920 instead of 0291. 1920 is the year band-aid was invented. Reference to the albumtitle?
@chestbuster it's a database of grave site/ plaques (war memorials) of ancestors
@chestbuster it's a database of grave site/ plaques (war memorials) of ancestors
"And did those feet in ancient time" is a short poem by William Blake. I think It is the premise for the song. The Dark Satanic Mills refer to the Industrial revolution in England.
Gene ID: 6026961
extracellular solute-binding protein
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/6026961
Concentration Camps. The number is the number that got tattooed on the victims arm. At the show they showed images of Auschwitz and various nazi, christian and jewish symbols during the song. Just my opinion but that what I go with.
Anyone knows what 6026961 stands for?
take out the three 6's and you get 0291. Type that into Google and you get this:
take out the three 6's and you get 0291. Type that into Google and you get this:
https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sic_manual.display?id=351&tab=description
https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sic_manual.display?id=351&tab=description
Very interesting...
Very interesting...
Take out the number of the beast and your left with 0291. Type that number into google and OSHA will have your answer.
Much in the same vein as "Arbeit Macht Fleisch", this song describes the dehumanizing effects of industry.
"dark satanic mills" is the name given to factories during the industrial revolution in Great Britain in the 18th Century.
I think the number is a reference to 6 million jews killed in the Holocaust , the vile Nazi regime was the culmination of the what industrialisation had become by the 20th Century, the concentration camps were factories for human slaughter on a horrendous scale. Mechanization and industrialisation, 200 years of progress and that's all what humankind had achieved, wholesale slaughter of its own kind.
When i heard the number in the chorus, first thing that came to mind was that it could have been a phone number which is typically 7 digits excluding the area code which was omitted and probably for good reason too. Of course i could be wrong though