Got my finger on the trigger
But I don't know who to trust
I look into your eyes
There's just devils and dust
I've got my finger on the trigger
And tonight faith just ain't enough
When I look inside my heart
There's just devils and dust
If you take these two stanzas (1 from the beginning and 1 from the end) you can see how Bruce brings the song all together through the means of self-reflection. The song is obviously about war and the affect it has on human emotion. In the first stanza here Bruce is looking outward at others and he seems the evil and deception of Man. In the second stanza here Bruce looks inside himself and realizes that he IS what he sees. War, murder (devils and dust). He has become everything he hated by participating in this war.
As chilling of a realization this is, the most moving part of the song is in this stanza:
I got God on my side
And I'm just trying to survive
What if what you do to survive kills the things you love
Fears a dangerous thing
It'll turn your heart black you can trust
It'll take your God filled soul
Fill it with devils and dust
Bruce refers to God throughout the whole song putting much weight on the spirituality and importance of faith in Man. In this stanza Bruce comes emphasizes the horrible realization that life forces upon us. “What if what you do to survive kills the things you love” is the most important part of the song. Picture holding a man at gunpoint, someone you don’t even know. You love mankind and everything about it. And know you look at yourself and you are about to kill the thing you love in order to stay alive. The man represents mankind The rest of the stanza basically says that these actions have turned you into a hypocritical, dark, evil, person in which there is no escape, unless you are willing to die. Pretty powerful stuff and I’m sure things like this happens in the chaos of war.
Got my finger on the trigger But I don't know who to trust I look into your eyes There's just devils and dust
I've got my finger on the trigger And tonight faith just ain't enough When I look inside my heart There's just devils and dust
If you take these two stanzas (1 from the beginning and 1 from the end) you can see how Bruce brings the song all together through the means of self-reflection. The song is obviously about war and the affect it has on human emotion. In the first stanza here Bruce is looking outward at others and he seems the evil and deception of Man. In the second stanza here Bruce looks inside himself and realizes that he IS what he sees. War, murder (devils and dust). He has become everything he hated by participating in this war.
As chilling of a realization this is, the most moving part of the song is in this stanza:
I got God on my side And I'm just trying to survive What if what you do to survive kills the things you love Fears a dangerous thing It'll turn your heart black you can trust It'll take your God filled soul Fill it with devils and dust
Bruce refers to God throughout the whole song putting much weight on the spirituality and importance of faith in Man. In this stanza Bruce comes emphasizes the horrible realization that life forces upon us. “What if what you do to survive kills the things you love” is the most important part of the song. Picture holding a man at gunpoint, someone you don’t even know. You love mankind and everything about it. And know you look at yourself and you are about to kill the thing you love in order to stay alive. The man represents mankind The rest of the stanza basically says that these actions have turned you into a hypocritical, dark, evil, person in which there is no escape, unless you are willing to die. Pretty powerful stuff and I’m sure things like this happens in the chaos of war.