I see this song as a response to the previous track on the album Dead.
Dead seems to be about what happens after death and from the point of view of a doubter of religion and someone scared of death.
This seems to be about the religious masses, the fact that they are scared of death and go to chuch/other religious buildings every week to try and perpetuate the idea to themselves that there is a life after death:
"Ten billion feet
Pounding at the ground each week"
But their foot pounding is all done in vain:
"Each one’s waiting on the chance
To be lifted off the ground but then
To discover that we’ll all be dust again"
I think this part best sums up my interpretation of the song:
"But somehow we never get heard
There’s just an echo
From a lost and lonely world"
I see this song as a response to the previous track on the album Dead.
Dead seems to be about what happens after death and from the point of view of a doubter of religion and someone scared of death.
This seems to be about the religious masses, the fact that they are scared of death and go to chuch/other religious buildings every week to try and perpetuate the idea to themselves that there is a life after death:
"Ten billion feet Pounding at the ground each week"
But their foot pounding is all done in vain:
"Each one’s waiting on the chance To be lifted off the ground but then To discover that we’ll all be dust again"
I think this part best sums up my interpretation of the song:
"But somehow we never get heard There’s just an echo From a lost and lonely world"