The song makes more sense in the context of the other tracks on the album. Damnation and a Day, which this is from, "tells Satan's side of the sotry." The two songs before Better To Reign In Hell, "An Enemy Led The Tempest" and the orchestral song "Damned In ANy Language", which tell of the war in Heaven and Lucifer's downfall.
Better To Reign In Hell, then, picks up with Satan awaking in Hell. First coming to grips with his predicament, he rallies his fallen legions and they decide on a course of action - to corrupt the fledgling human race so that they, too, may be fallen in the eyes of God.
The song makes more sense in the context of the other tracks on the album. Damnation and a Day, which this is from, "tells Satan's side of the sotry." The two songs before Better To Reign In Hell, "An Enemy Led The Tempest" and the orchestral song "Damned In ANy Language", which tell of the war in Heaven and Lucifer's downfall.
Better To Reign In Hell, then, picks up with Satan awaking in Hell. First coming to grips with his predicament, he rallies his fallen legions and they decide on a course of action - to corrupt the fledgling human race so that they, too, may be fallen in the eyes of God.