THIS SONG IS PHENOMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The power of these lyrics!!! This Godless Endeavor is my favorite Nevermore song (and my favorite song of all time), but this song has the best lyrics, and vocal structure of all Nevermore songs (or any song for that matter!)!!!
I think the lyrics are about a robot who is created as a servent to man, but is also created with devestating weapons, and is made to be virtually indestructible. Over time, the robot begins to realize that humans have the ability to think and act independently without programming, and have the ability to dream, have hope for a life after death (well some of us do anyway), and are capable of experiencing acute emotions such as sorrow, joy, love, hate, and happiness. And this knowledge makes the robot begin to question his own purpose of existence. He wants to become like humans, to feel and think and dream and move on after death (or deactivation in his case). But since humans are both incapable of and are not inclined to do this for him, he begins to hate humans, to hate how they treat him as an inferior, and how they expect him to be like all the other robots of his kind. Not to be able to think independant or abstractly, or to feel emotions. And also, he sees the pain we humans inflict on one another in cold blood, and the acts of injustice that we perpetrate on all living things, and he begins to see the blatant imperfection in our design, and since he was created to correct imperfection, he turns on his creators and masters, and begins to kill them all to eliminate the problem forvever, and to cleanse the world of the single most destructive being to walk it's surface.
All in all, the robot in the song makes me think of Sonny from the movie I, Robot, and I wonder if the idea for this song was born from the concept of Sonny. The difference being that Sonny was capable of dreaming, and was certainly much more amiable than the misanthropic piece of work in the song.
Another interpretation I've heard is that the robot was ORINGINALLY programmed to annihilate humanity, but while it is carrying out that task, it envies humans for their ability to feel and think and their possession of a soul. Also, 93phoenix's argument sounds reasonable enough.
Whatever the meaning may be, it's just a great piece of music with awesome lyrics.
THIS SONG IS PHENOMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The power of these lyrics!!! This Godless Endeavor is my favorite Nevermore song (and my favorite song of all time), but this song has the best lyrics, and vocal structure of all Nevermore songs (or any song for that matter!)!!!
I think the lyrics are about a robot who is created as a servent to man, but is also created with devestating weapons, and is made to be virtually indestructible. Over time, the robot begins to realize that humans have the ability to think and act independently without programming, and have the ability to dream, have hope for a life after death (well some of us do anyway), and are capable of experiencing acute emotions such as sorrow, joy, love, hate, and happiness. And this knowledge makes the robot begin to question his own purpose of existence. He wants to become like humans, to feel and think and dream and move on after death (or deactivation in his case). But since humans are both incapable of and are not inclined to do this for him, he begins to hate humans, to hate how they treat him as an inferior, and how they expect him to be like all the other robots of his kind. Not to be able to think independant or abstractly, or to feel emotions. And also, he sees the pain we humans inflict on one another in cold blood, and the acts of injustice that we perpetrate on all living things, and he begins to see the blatant imperfection in our design, and since he was created to correct imperfection, he turns on his creators and masters, and begins to kill them all to eliminate the problem forvever, and to cleanse the world of the single most destructive being to walk it's surface.
All in all, the robot in the song makes me think of Sonny from the movie I, Robot, and I wonder if the idea for this song was born from the concept of Sonny. The difference being that Sonny was capable of dreaming, and was certainly much more amiable than the misanthropic piece of work in the song.
Another interpretation I've heard is that the robot was ORINGINALLY programmed to annihilate humanity, but while it is carrying out that task, it envies humans for their ability to feel and think and their possession of a soul. Also, 93phoenix's argument sounds reasonable enough.
Whatever the meaning may be, it's just a great piece of music with awesome lyrics.