Just listening to this song and not knowing any background, it is obviously a song about the end of the world. The list of things they sing about are the common stuff of our day to day existence. Then come the sirens and "hell reigns above." It is a forecast for Armageddon. Whether the end is brought because of nuclear proliferation, alien invasion, or the return of Jesus Christ is not made clear. One thing is clear, that we see the end approaching because the narrator says toward the end: "the statement, the warning, the sirens, we set 'em off."
Just listening to this song and not knowing any background, it is obviously a song about the end of the world. The list of things they sing about are the common stuff of our day to day existence. Then come the sirens and "hell reigns above." It is a forecast for Armageddon. Whether the end is brought because of nuclear proliferation, alien invasion, or the return of Jesus Christ is not made clear. One thing is clear, that we see the end approaching because the narrator says toward the end: "the statement, the warning, the sirens, we set 'em off."