The lyrics seem, pretty straightforwardly really, to be a lament about being "the one" who, by means of some discovery, heralds the coming of some horrible force; what that force is, human or alien or supernatural, is, however, extremely vague, as is what "they" shall do, or have done, on arrival.
The lyrics seem, pretty straightforwardly really, to be a lament about being "the one" who, by means of some discovery, heralds the coming of some horrible force; what that force is, human or alien or supernatural, is, however, extremely vague, as is what "they" shall do, or have done, on arrival.