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Never again
On your forcefed illusions to choke
You feed off my pain
Feed off my life
There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown
Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all of your lies
My hate is blind
There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown
Slaughter of the soul
Suicidal final art
Children - born of sin
Tear your soul apart
Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all of your lies
My hate is blind
There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown
Slaughter of the soul
Suicidal final art
Children - born of sin
Tear your soul apart
On your forcefed illusions to choke
You feed off my pain
Feed off my life
There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown
Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all of your lies
My hate is blind
There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown
Slaughter of the soul
Suicidal final art
Children - born of sin
Tear your soul apart
Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all of your lies
My hate is blind
There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown
Slaughter of the soul
Suicidal final art
Children - born of sin
Tear your soul apart
Lyrics submitted by jt
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dunno what its about, but a really great song (the Slaughter Of The Soul album is one of the best Swedish Melo-Death Albums IMO) but i do know that the part when Tomas yells "Go" before the instruments start was not planned as he said it " ..just kind of happened" awesome stuff and Adrian Erlandsson is such a top drummer
paragraph 6 of these lyrics is wrong, instead of
"Always the same My tired eyes have seen enough".
its
"Never again, my shattered eyes have seen enough"
listen to 2.14 of the actual song, if someone wants to edit that.
Never really understand heavy metal lyrics, it's all kill this, eat this, sacrifice that. Bloody good though. At The Gates are one of my favourite heavy music bands. This is one of my favourite songs of theirs.
@InTylerWeTrust lol you have no clue xD
This song and most of the others on the album for which it is the title track are about the destruction of traditional ways of thinking, and freeing one's mind in general. (Not in the hippy sense, of course.)
The lyrics on the SOTS Album, and the title track in particular, is influenced by Luke Rhinehart's book "The Dice Man". This book is influenced by Zen Buddhism. The book is about a guy who throws dice about all decisions he make, in order to erase all patterns in himself, and thus becoming free of the limiting personality. The book is really dark and full of humor and critic against everything. It is a must read.
This song conveys the central message of the book, that of erasing the self as a way to gain freedom. However, it is written in a metal way, and is also highly misanthropic
@Philospher lol dude, this comment prompted me (in late 2017) to get the book off of amazon since it was cheap. I was curious to see whether there would be some deeper meaning unlocked, or at least an interesting read.<br /> <br /> The Dice Man really shows its age when reading it nowadays. It's super dated and just reads like a story about a hugely privileged white guy who gets bored so goes around abusing people and committing crimes because the dice say so. It's narcissistic to the extreme, has no valuable ethical message, and is little more than tawdry titillation because of the sex scenes.<br /> <br /> I knew it was going to be a chore to get through after the first couple chapters, but I wanted to get through it for experiment's sake. I can't recommend it to anyone else.
Nearly all At The Gates lyrics are very misanthropic...its generally very bleak...kicks ass though...
Its about judgement day/the apocalypse.
Ive read the dice man numerous times and have come to the conclusion that the content on this at the gates album inspired by it is only loosely based on it. Great book. Great band. Great album.
I always thought it was "My shattered eyes have seen enough"
i actually used to think Tomas said "My giant eyes have seen enough" so everytime i heard the song i would wonder why.