I'm pretty sure this song is about how humans will typically try to pass the buck no matter what the situation, but still feel entitled to bitch and moan about how someone else somehow dropped the ball.
In the first stanza, it seems like there are a group of people sitting around a fire when another person stumbles up and tries to explain himself. The group's first response is that of a professional critic. The stranger's first words could've been more inspired. After they realize the guy's hungry, tired, or frozen, they have the decency to offer him a seat and to let him put his feet up, but they still demand that he entertain them with stories.
When we know there's gonna be "hell to pay", humans would rather "hide away" and "run away" even though we know "we're to blame". However, all we're doing is trying to do is dig ourselves out of a bottomless pit. At the most, we'll "destroy on command all who came", but then quit before providing a replacement.
I'm pretty sure this song is about how humans will typically try to pass the buck no matter what the situation, but still feel entitled to bitch and moan about how someone else somehow dropped the ball.
In the first stanza, it seems like there are a group of people sitting around a fire when another person stumbles up and tries to explain himself. The group's first response is that of a professional critic. The stranger's first words could've been more inspired. After they realize the guy's hungry, tired, or frozen, they have the decency to offer him a seat and to let him put his feet up, but they still demand that he entertain them with stories.
When we know there's gonna be "hell to pay", humans would rather "hide away" and "run away" even though we know "we're to blame". However, all we're doing is trying to do is dig ourselves out of a bottomless pit. At the most, we'll "destroy on command all who came", but then quit before providing a replacement.