So, given the entire album is rife with metaphor (or direct quotes) of nuclear holocaust, why are people spouting off about how this song is about "the police state being constructed all around us, and the fact that the majority of the population has been lulled into submission." and "the NWO being worldwide and the ushering in of the new political and belief system of one world government."
Seriously, the album opens with a quote from Openheimer and you think the "loaded gun" is a bunch of cops and polititians?
It's about nukes. Fits everything. They are the loaded gun, they can't be outfought/outwon/outdone/outrun etc, and with 10000+ of them still in storage around the world, we may well suffer the sins of our father and burn in the fire of a thousand suns.
Some of it is a bit more abstract. My best guess is the "twin symphonies of blinding light" are the only two times we've used nuclear weapons on a live target (japan). I am also GUESSING that the "transmission echoing away" is the fact that nukes release a huge amount of RF energy, they are theoretically "audible" across interstellar distances.
But yeah, this is a fine tune, but don't over analyse it. Nukes are bad, mkay?
So, given the entire album is rife with metaphor (or direct quotes) of nuclear holocaust, why are people spouting off about how this song is about "the police state being constructed all around us, and the fact that the majority of the population has been lulled into submission." and "the NWO being worldwide and the ushering in of the new political and belief system of one world government."
Seriously, the album opens with a quote from Openheimer and you think the "loaded gun" is a bunch of cops and polititians?
It's about nukes. Fits everything. They are the loaded gun, they can't be outfought/outwon/outdone/outrun etc, and with 10000+ of them still in storage around the world, we may well suffer the sins of our father and burn in the fire of a thousand suns.
Some of it is a bit more abstract. My best guess is the "twin symphonies of blinding light" are the only two times we've used nuclear weapons on a live target (japan). I am also GUESSING that the "transmission echoing away" is the fact that nukes release a huge amount of RF energy, they are theoretically "audible" across interstellar distances.
But yeah, this is a fine tune, but don't over analyse it. Nukes are bad, mkay?