Child of Dust

I think this might have more similarities to The Flame Deluge than you might think.

The term child of dust originally comes from Louise Lawrence's novel Children of Dust. The novel is about a post-apocalyptic world and the effects of a nuclear war. So this is similar to the Flame Deluge in the sense that both reference the devastation that would occur if nuclear warfare were to ensue.

But mostly I think the song is just the Earth asking why we mistreat it and misuse it. The first two lines say how Earth feels like it took us, as mankind, under its wing, provided for us, and gave food and shelter to help us grow.

I am not sure, but I think the end of the first stanza might talk about like space travel and how we were not content with what the Earth provided and we were so greedy that we wanted to go further. That could be totally off though, especially since we aren't even sure about what the lyrics say there. It doesn't sound like "though demons raped the earth before your eyes" to me. It is more like "All legions weld the rain before you eyes" but that really doesn't make sense.

Anyway back on topic. The second stanza says something about burying dead with the whole uprooting flowers and filling the holes with blood. I would imagine that the blood that fills these holes is the blood shed in warfare. I guess the next stanza talks about how a nuclear holocaust and the devastation that would occur. mostly referring to death of humans.

And then the end part is just awesome. You can hear them shoveling dirt on to the "coffin" that encases the microphone. This is just sort of a representation of burying the dead. But it is freaking powerful. I can imagine a music video for this song. Like the members of the band would be laying in open caskets the whole time and then be carried through like a desolate area that had been clearly hit by a nuclear bomb. And at the end the casket would close (thus the muffled part would begin) and someone would begin to shovel dirt n the coffins until they were buried.