Some of these lyrics are wrong. Namely "We will mourn our freedom" should be "We will know of our freedom" while "without love for our brothers" is (i think) "We'll have love for our brothers"
Both of those are followed by "Never again, never again" so I think they're supposed to be the opposite.
The other things are just small stuff. Anybody think Obama when they read the first part? I think this song is less about society in general and more about one particular leader ascending to power. Each time we allow someone to have stronger power than everyone else but they bring us all down as everyone falls victim to human nature. For each of these eras that he mentions, we righteously overthrow an oppressor but with our violent revolution we set ourselves up for another oppressor to step into place and let the cycle continue. In the end, no matter what we're fighting for, we're still fighting fellow human beings with whom we should be sharing the planet. We're erasing "all that we've become" and "all those we loved" until everything burns to the ground, which leads into the next song, where the character sees "a dead world at sunrise." That's all my interpretation at least.
Also, it's worth mentioning that the little speech part beginning with "Warmongers!" not only sums up the concept of the song quite nicely but is one of the most powerful vocal parts of any song i can think of, with the "ROT IN YOUR GRAVES!" ending. it's brilliant imo haha
Some of these lyrics are wrong. Namely "We will mourn our freedom" should be "We will know of our freedom" while "without love for our brothers" is (i think) "We'll have love for our brothers" Both of those are followed by "Never again, never again" so I think they're supposed to be the opposite.
The other things are just small stuff. Anybody think Obama when they read the first part? I think this song is less about society in general and more about one particular leader ascending to power. Each time we allow someone to have stronger power than everyone else but they bring us all down as everyone falls victim to human nature. For each of these eras that he mentions, we righteously overthrow an oppressor but with our violent revolution we set ourselves up for another oppressor to step into place and let the cycle continue. In the end, no matter what we're fighting for, we're still fighting fellow human beings with whom we should be sharing the planet. We're erasing "all that we've become" and "all those we loved" until everything burns to the ground, which leads into the next song, where the character sees "a dead world at sunrise." That's all my interpretation at least.
Also, it's worth mentioning that the little speech part beginning with "Warmongers!" not only sums up the concept of the song quite nicely but is one of the most powerful vocal parts of any song i can think of, with the "ROT IN YOUR GRAVES!" ending. it's brilliant imo haha