Don't quote me, but I believe this song is from the perspective of a dark angel, or even Lucifer himself, walking across the land witnessing their goals of annihilating religion.
The first verse shows the angel passing a house and describing a Crucifix as if it's a foreign object no one's heard of (which they haven't, since God is dead remember?) But as he passes the old, presumably a church i'm guessing, he notices a disciple to the destroyed religion committing suicide "And kneeling man talking to the effigy of steel.."
The second verse shows more destruction against everything considered holy, such as virgins, and the last line could be in reference to a Catholic communion or Mormon sacrament... Something to that effect
And the third is where I came up with my angel theory. He/she/it says that they have been traveling the world disproving the religious myths being spread like poison among humanity
Basically, it's describing a world where religion was violently eradicated
Don't quote me, but I believe this song is from the perspective of a dark angel, or even Lucifer himself, walking across the land witnessing their goals of annihilating religion.
The first verse shows the angel passing a house and describing a Crucifix as if it's a foreign object no one's heard of (which they haven't, since God is dead remember?) But as he passes the old, presumably a church i'm guessing, he notices a disciple to the destroyed religion committing suicide "And kneeling man talking to the effigy of steel.."
The second verse shows more destruction against everything considered holy, such as virgins, and the last line could be in reference to a Catholic communion or Mormon sacrament... Something to that effect
And the third is where I came up with my angel theory. He/she/it says that they have been traveling the world disproving the religious myths being spread like poison among humanity
Basically, it's describing a world where religion was violently eradicated