as part of the concept album "damnation and a day" and following the seduction of the first and only human inhabitants of paradise, this song basically deals with Satan realizing the new situation and trying to somehow take advantage of it by offering mankind his reign:
"Behold the golden door
To paradise is lost
So praise Me as you raised your Lord
And I shall thaw this gnawing frost"
This means that, since paradise has turned into an inaccessable place for mankind, Satan now can provide it a better life. Speaking of this it is also interesting that the earth, the mortal realm including the mortals themselves is called "a sombre lot", which Satan first could "gain", then, after he apparently has had success, now "tills".
What now follows is Satan's influence changing the course of humanity, which once by was set to praise God, but now, corrupted by Satan, has chosen a different path...
as part of the concept album "damnation and a day" and following the seduction of the first and only human inhabitants of paradise, this song basically deals with Satan realizing the new situation and trying to somehow take advantage of it by offering mankind his reign: "Behold the golden door To paradise is lost So praise Me as you raised your Lord And I shall thaw this gnawing frost" This means that, since paradise has turned into an inaccessable place for mankind, Satan now can provide it a better life. Speaking of this it is also interesting that the earth, the mortal realm including the mortals themselves is called "a sombre lot", which Satan first could "gain", then, after he apparently has had success, now "tills". What now follows is Satan's influence changing the course of humanity, which once by was set to praise God, but now, corrupted by Satan, has chosen a different path...