A Mandatory Sacrifice Lyrics

Lyric discussion by deadandlivin 

Cover art for A Mandatory Sacrifice lyrics by Oceano

"i think this one is about the book Battlefield Earth.

except he re-wrote the ending to make the dude eat everybody instead of fighting the aliens."

Lol, sounds pretty farfetched for me. I believe the song is about religion, or more specifically the lack of the supernatural. The introduction of the song introduces us to a world abandoned by what we recall as todays sufficient world. Basically that we as humans have managed to destroy our own planet.

Later on the song starts to provoke the darwinistic ideas of "Survival of the fittest" where only the fittest humans who could take the decisions of surviving through the means of devouring others where the ones to survive.

The weak humans, in a sense I believe to be the religious people would as adressed by this song, would die since they would be unable to make the mandatory sacrifice, sacrificing their faulty beliefs in a God. The song pretty much continues in the same alignment asserting for a god allowing the horrific existence to be and either being unwilling to help his creations or simply being non-existing.

It's pretty clear that it's a wake up song in atheistic sense in an essence to make people open their eyes to the real world and expose to nonexisting. Simply, how could an all loving god possibly allow for such situations?