I'm not certain about this one but this song made me think of the poem Ozymandius by PB Shelly. To me it's somewhat about the power of nuclear weapons and modern hubris much like Ozymandius.
It's almost as if our narrator has seen into the past with xray eyes and like PB Shelly sitting at the foot of Ozymandius our narrator perceives the futility of great empires and himself (his own demise).
I think at the end this is a frightening, unsettling, moment and he wish he had never seen what poor PB Shelly had seen.
Anyway I love the song and poetry of it.
I could be very wrong about this... Here's the original PB Shelly poem I'm referencing:
I'm not certain about this one but this song made me think of the poem Ozymandius by PB Shelly. To me it's somewhat about the power of nuclear weapons and modern hubris much like Ozymandius.
It's almost as if our narrator has seen into the past with xray eyes and like PB Shelly sitting at the foot of Ozymandius our narrator perceives the futility of great empires and himself (his own demise).
I think at the end this is a frightening, unsettling, moment and he wish he had never seen what poor PB Shelly had seen.
Anyway I love the song and poetry of it.
I could be very wrong about this... Here's the original PB Shelly poem I'm referencing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias