Yeeah! This is poetic genius I think. Dust is a reference to all the little guilts, hidden truths and mysteries in history, and how they haunt us.
"What got into you is not a ghost as such
It was just dust"
Also, a very stong last verse:
Here comes the juggernaut
Here come The Poisoners
They choke the life and land
And rob the joy from us
Why do they taste of sugar?
Oh, when they're made of money
Here come the Lamb of God
And the butcher's boy, Sonny
@LukeB Well, 12 years later, but . . . the inexorable forces of destruction come, unstoppable (lıke the juggernaut) and insidious (poisoners). The environmental themes make it fairly clear he's talking about industry, which is both. They give us what we think we want (taste of sugar), while taking all of their profits from us (made of money). The Lamb of God isthe people, maybe us, who become a blood sacrifice for our sins, and the butcher's boy (note the film, the Butcher's Boy, from the same era) is performing the sacrifice for his own gain.
@LukeB Well, 12 years later, but . . . the inexorable forces of destruction come, unstoppable (lıke the juggernaut) and insidious (poisoners). The environmental themes make it fairly clear he's talking about industry, which is both. They give us what we think we want (taste of sugar), while taking all of their profits from us (made of money). The Lamb of God isthe people, maybe us, who become a blood sacrifice for our sins, and the butcher's boy (note the film, the Butcher's Boy, from the same era) is performing the sacrifice for his own gain.
Yeeah! This is poetic genius I think. Dust is a reference to all the little guilts, hidden truths and mysteries in history, and how they haunt us. "What got into you is not a ghost as such It was just dust"
Also, a very stong last verse:
Here comes the juggernaut Here come The Poisoners They choke the life and land And rob the joy from us Why do they taste of sugar? Oh, when they're made of money Here come the Lamb of God And the butcher's boy, Sonny
Can anyone interpret this?
@LukeB Well, 12 years later, but . . . the inexorable forces of destruction come, unstoppable (lıke the juggernaut) and insidious (poisoners). The environmental themes make it fairly clear he's talking about industry, which is both. They give us what we think we want (taste of sugar), while taking all of their profits from us (made of money). The Lamb of God isthe people, maybe us, who become a blood sacrifice for our sins, and the butcher's boy (note the film, the Butcher's Boy, from the same era) is performing the sacrifice for his own gain.
@LukeB Well, 12 years later, but . . . the inexorable forces of destruction come, unstoppable (lıke the juggernaut) and insidious (poisoners). The environmental themes make it fairly clear he's talking about industry, which is both. They give us what we think we want (taste of sugar), while taking all of their profits from us (made of money). The Lamb of God isthe people, maybe us, who become a blood sacrifice for our sins, and the butcher's boy (note the film, the Butcher's Boy, from the same era) is performing the sacrifice for his own gain.