To Burn The Eye Lyrics

Lyric discussion by -the-decieved- 

Cover art for To Burn The Eye lyrics by Trivium

i think that this song is about people who beat their wives and kids and generally abuse them and how the wives and kids feel. for example the line "two become as one, one become a slave" two become as one means that two people get married and this suggests that the man practically enslaves the woman, then the line "immolation of the human self, conflagration of the ego" is about how the people being abused will feel horrible about themselves and will feel that they deserve it. matt heafy also describes the people being abused as empty shells for the same reason. He also partly talks about the person abusing saying the he will, "burn in his own hell" being that this will come back to haunt him and describes him as a "leech of the addiction" meaning that he is sick and is addicted to it and finally tells them that they will lose in the end