"The world is broken. We’re the last choking embers of a fire waiting to burn out. Long before our grandfathers and their fathers before them, we started pulling our planet apart in the name of progress and blind ambition. The greed of man has devoured this earth until there was nothing left. We watch as time eats us alive. A generation born to witness the end of the world."
That's what is said at the start of the video. Pretty much what the song means. As for 'we are diamonds choosing to stay coal' I think it means: how can we be expected to live to our full potential by generations before us when they pulled apart most of the earth before we were even born?
"The world is broken. We’re the last choking embers of a fire waiting to burn out. Long before our grandfathers and their fathers before them, we started pulling our planet apart in the name of progress and blind ambition. The greed of man has devoured this earth until there was nothing left. We watch as time eats us alive. A generation born to witness the end of the world." That's what is said at the start of the video. Pretty much what the song means. As for 'we are diamonds choosing to stay coal' I think it means: how can we be expected to live to our full potential by generations before us when they pulled apart most of the earth before we were even born?