Lyric discussion by E4Ducky 

Cover art for God Damn lyrics by Avenged Sevenfold

The song is about how we, in current society, through our own fears for safety have given the government too much control and power over us, but it didn't happen like a massive martial law takeover or like 1984... it happened because we gave away too much of our freedom for the sake of feeling safe. So there was no big evil big brother, or illuminati. It was us, we did it ourselves.

Due to fear mongering of racism, sexism, and guilt for the sin's of the father, the left: big government was created and uses our insecurities on those issues (which aren't as big of issues as we've been led to believe) we've bought their malicious narrative and took it as truth.

"It goes beyond big brother in the sky Beyond the threat of martial law no Horus eye No one came to cuff you they just handed you the chains Blind follows the blind and now the one-eyed man is king"

Horus eye and one-eyed man are allusions to the illuminati: the all seeing eye. The public accepted the lies of the government and now the even the sheep are fighting people who are against the government; they've become self-herding.