This song is a condemnation of the current US political regime. Not unlike APC's earlier song "Pet" (an obvious jab at GWB for his warmongering ways), "The Doomed" criticizes Trump and all of his pals for their love of wealth, their materialist attitude, and their efforts at lawmaking that benefits the rich and shafts the poor.
Additionally, "The Doomed" is an interesting and literal response to WB Yeat's poem "The Second Coming" (google it). Yeats believed that every 2000 years, there was a "changing of the gods". This song is an answer to the question posed in the last two lines of "The Second Coming":
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Technically, "... you're on your own" is a curse and not even remotely a 'beatitude', which Bible scholars literally define as beginning with some form of the phrase "Blessed is/are" (ie, "Blessed are the meek, for they ..."). The "Doomed are ..." lines are obvious "anti-beatitudes" and might best be thought of as maledictions: curses backed by seriously evil intent. (Also the brand name of the most popular cigarette in Hell :)
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This song is a condemnation of the current US political regime. Not unlike APC's earlier song "Pet" (an obvious jab at GWB for his warmongering ways), "The Doomed" criticizes Trump and all of his pals for their love of wealth, their materialist attitude, and their efforts at lawmaking that benefits the rich and shafts the poor.
Additionally, "The Doomed" is an interesting and literal response to WB Yeat's poem "The Second Coming" (google it). Yeats believed that every 2000 years, there was a "changing of the gods". This song is an answer to the question posed in the last two lines of "The Second Coming":
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"