Tom Arraya is a lyrical genious. While everyone is thinking this song is about hell, It is clearly about the demoralization of America and the darker side of human existence. Domineering Deity is the Media, and The Immoral Obeservance is the public feeding into the lust and sex that the media has portrayed for people. The "forgotten children" are the generation of youth that can only look up to their "promiscuous mothers and incestuous fathers". The third verse refers to a society that has lost all moral believes and has corroded into hatred. On and On South of Heaven is referring to a society (USA) that has fallen to humanities darker yearnings. Slayer rules.
@ktaps13 Totally agree and i dont belive he was just writing about America but the whole world, the modern western ways injected with posion of media got to us all. Yet Arraya still mentions the second coming and the day of judgment... goes on saying "before you see the light you must die" the self-centeredness, pride, malice, arrogance it all must die, in the holy scriptures they say Christ is the only one who can redem us and change our lives if he was truly the one he claimed to be. ...
@ktaps13 Totally agree and i dont belive he was just writing about America but the whole world, the modern western ways injected with posion of media got to us all. Yet Arraya still mentions the second coming and the day of judgment... goes on saying "before you see the light you must die" the self-centeredness, pride, malice, arrogance it all must die, in the holy scriptures they say Christ is the only one who can redem us and change our lives if he was truly the one he claimed to be. The lyrics later in the song go (after a solo pause); " the root of all evil is the heart of a black soul, a force that has lived for all eternity. Implying clearly that Satan and his fallen angels exist as a force in the world that inflicts and influences humanity through weak-broken,tormented and evil men.
Tom Arraya is a lyrical genious. While everyone is thinking this song is about hell, It is clearly about the demoralization of America and the darker side of human existence. Domineering Deity is the Media, and The Immoral Obeservance is the public feeding into the lust and sex that the media has portrayed for people. The "forgotten children" are the generation of youth that can only look up to their "promiscuous mothers and incestuous fathers". The third verse refers to a society that has lost all moral believes and has corroded into hatred. On and On South of Heaven is referring to a society (USA) that has fallen to humanities darker yearnings. Slayer rules.
good reading :)
good reading :)
i totally agree - f**king genius lyrically, some of the sickest lyrics ever- matched with the hardest grooving thrash ever...
i totally agree - f**king genius lyrically, some of the sickest lyrics ever- matched with the hardest grooving thrash ever...
@ktaps13 Totally agree and i dont belive he was just writing about America but the whole world, the modern western ways injected with posion of media got to us all. Yet Arraya still mentions the second coming and the day of judgment... goes on saying "before you see the light you must die" the self-centeredness, pride, malice, arrogance it all must die, in the holy scriptures they say Christ is the only one who can redem us and change our lives if he was truly the one he claimed to be. ...
@ktaps13 Totally agree and i dont belive he was just writing about America but the whole world, the modern western ways injected with posion of media got to us all. Yet Arraya still mentions the second coming and the day of judgment... goes on saying "before you see the light you must die" the self-centeredness, pride, malice, arrogance it all must die, in the holy scriptures they say Christ is the only one who can redem us and change our lives if he was truly the one he claimed to be. The lyrics later in the song go (after a solo pause); " the root of all evil is the heart of a black soul, a force that has lived for all eternity. Implying clearly that Satan and his fallen angels exist as a force in the world that inflicts and influences humanity through weak-broken,tormented and evil men.