Born in Dissonance Lyrics

Lyric discussion by andrzej103 

Cover art for Born in Dissonance lyrics by Meshuggah

Well, to me it looks like this song is clearly about singularities or "black holes".

"We are origin" - as in the initial singularity of the big bang.

"You will see our coming for a thousand years" - you can see them, or rather the distortion of what's around them for a really, really long time before they finally evaporate.

"Every violent element incarnate, Made flesh and fused to one" - they suck in every element on the periodic table along with smaller particles like photons, fusing them into this one entity and grinding them down, with time only heat radiation is small and light enough to escape from them.

"You may call us remnant, As we are all that will be left" - all matter will end up inside black holes, leaving them the only thing left, well not only cause there will still be a lot of radiation left going into state of thermodynamic equilibrium, leading to the heat death of the universe after the black holes evaporate, but fair enough I guess.

"Brought forth by ancient whisper, Deployed by inverse suns" - black holes come to being from a collapse, an implosion of a star, so an inversion of it on itself.

"To capture the essence of creation, And render it undone" - to suck all the matter into them and grind them down to the finest dust in the universe.

"We come to make all things collide" - like i already said they suck in everything and smash it together.

"Those joules define what we are, An energy born in dissonance, Long before first ever star" - black holes are probably the most violent, chaotic things ever, "long before first ever star" part might be referring to the formation of supermassive back holes from gas clouds, or just that the big bang itself and our universe is such a chaotic entity and that all the energy within it was "born in dissonance".

"Baptized in the river you call time, We know that we are sacred, In human tongue we're apocalypse, For we bring with us obliteration, Through spectacles tuned to infinity, You will see our coming for a thousand years, You will know us then for what we truly are, The realization of every fear" - Viking poetry. :D

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