The lyrics always sounded like a description of the "mob instinct",like a village of people in a past era turning on one individual(the one who is "pulled to bits")accused of something they likely aren't guilty of,but the fact that they're outnumbered sentences them to what sounds like a very brutal method of public execution.
"Tongues are clacking" obviously vicious gossip and judgement
"Words of one vision" accusations all agreed on,though nothing but words,but still powerful enough to condemn the individual
"One tiny incision" either the accused did do something,very minor,or the "incision" is inflicted upon them by their accusers
"Pulled to bits in silence" no one even says a word as the accused is violently killed
"Left rotting on the ground" their remains are left to decompose
"The mindless ones yapping/slashing through the thoroughfare" every ignorant person present participates in the execution,mindlessly following the mob
The lyrics always sounded like a description of the "mob instinct",like a village of people in a past era turning on one individual(the one who is "pulled to bits")accused of something they likely aren't guilty of,but the fact that they're outnumbered sentences them to what sounds like a very brutal method of public execution.
"Tongues are clacking" obviously vicious gossip and judgement "Words of one vision" accusations all agreed on,though nothing but words,but still powerful enough to condemn the individual "One tiny incision" either the accused did do something,very minor,or the "incision" is inflicted upon them by their accusers "Pulled to bits in silence" no one even says a word as the accused is violently killed "Left rotting on the ground" their remains are left to decompose "The mindless ones yapping/slashing through the thoroughfare" every ignorant person present participates in the execution,mindlessly following the mob
Just my interpretation.