This is an amazing song, wow...
I'm not really sure these lyrics are 100% correct, but as Duzel said, I think this song is about death. Or... about moving on after someone else's death.
In the very first verse someone suddenly dies, and it's a big change for his family and friends (in this case, Sylvia). It's a revolution for them, but they slowly heal from this loss. When someone dies it's hard to go on living at first but as time passes it becomes easier and everything goes back to normal again, "all that was after is now as it was before".
And I agree with the full circle theory... I mean, there's some hope in the last verse but there's also darkness, shadows... and "all of us ready ourselves to go into the dark". A circle... We march, stomp, dance, then we die, the world goes on without us, and then again people marching, stomping and dancing.
This is an amazing song, wow... I'm not really sure these lyrics are 100% correct, but as Duzel said, I think this song is about death. Or... about moving on after someone else's death. In the very first verse someone suddenly dies, and it's a big change for his family and friends (in this case, Sylvia). It's a revolution for them, but they slowly heal from this loss. When someone dies it's hard to go on living at first but as time passes it becomes easier and everything goes back to normal again, "all that was after is now as it was before". And I agree with the full circle theory... I mean, there's some hope in the last verse but there's also darkness, shadows... and "all of us ready ourselves to go into the dark". A circle... We march, stomp, dance, then we die, the world goes on without us, and then again people marching, stomping and dancing.