Songwriters: Baney, James Selleck; Depoyster, Jeremy Robert; Hranica, Michael James; Rubey, Christopher Henry; Trick, Andrew Jerome; Williams, Larry Daniel
Climbing into fire, her hands are forceful.
We're burying earth in earth.
White hands, soft hands: carefully.
This makes no sense.
What's that sound I hear?
I'm lost in a state of confusion.
Oh ground.
I despise you, but rejoice in your essence.
Envy will cease my sky.
Greed will cease my sky.
"Here's a farmer that hung himself on the expectation of plenty"
At this time I feel there is no bottom to earth.
Welcome to the museum of the dead; endless gore becomes reality.
Tradition's dug the grave.
The inferno has commenced
I think that what this song is really meaning, is that the world has become so washed up in sin. People are turning more and more away from God, and leaning more on worldly possessions. "Greed will cease my sky" and "Envy will cease my sky" are talking about how the majority of people these days are full of greed and envy. Let the Inferno commence is saying that God is near and Judgment is upon us. I think that over all, this song is talking about how the world has become so sinful and how we are close to the end. The end days are upon us.
Fabihasabin, I find it funny how you say "I love how mike is like a spectator in his lyrics" when it says on the top of the page that mike didn't even write this song.
But the suicide meaning of the song is the meaning Walker and Danny meant.
I think it is about a man that took his own life in an attempt to get to God. Most Christians that I know feel that the taking of your own life is a sin that can't be forgiven because you are not able to repent for it. Also it is blatently disrespectful to God because life is a gift and shouldn't be taken for granted. "Whats that sound I here?" could be the devil coercing this individual to take his/her life (If satan can get you to beleive a lie he can get you to live it) and "This makes no sense" could be the individual thinking about it because suicide really doesn't make any sense. Envy and Greed will surely drag someone into depression if not kept in balance and suicide is one of the greediest things that one can do with his/her life. So in a desperate attempt for this individual to end their suffering they took their own life to get to Heaven but that isn't the case. The antithesis of that happened and they went to hell thus "Envy/Greed will cease my sky" and "welcome to the museum of the dead; endless gore becomes reality" and "the inferno has dug the grave". In the beginning theres also "Climbing into fire her hands are forceful" these lyrics to me say that some kind of tragedy has happened in this individuals life and the song goes on to tell the tell of how they deal with the pain and hurt in the worst way possible.
i think its about how everyone is messing everything up in the world, its US thats destroying ourselves, not GOD. are burying earth in earth.
the white hands, soft hands, its showing how it makes no sense that WE are god's greatest creation and our life is a gift, our world is a gift, and what have we done in return, there's killing, sin, vanity, gluttony, aldutery, theres evil everywhere and theres people constantly straying away from the one who loves us the most.
all this sin will cease our sky, itll bring our end, and no one is doing anything about it.
the farmer is from macbeth from the PORTER scene, who is a drunk guard who believes hes guarding th gates of hell, the farmer who hung himself on the EXPECTATION of plenty is tragic , but he was in control of what he did and suffered for it, sometimes we expect so much from GOD when we are down here to make OUR OWN choices and we cant blame GOD for our greivances.
The inferno has commenced
JUDGMENT is now, we are being watched NOW
if you died today, how will you be judged, everyone is afraid of the apocalypse but its already happenning, keep your faith and do good, the judgment has started now, not later
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SHOW FOR YOUR LIFE, THE LIFE GOD GAVE YOU ?
i love how mike is like a spectator in his lyrics, he writes like he is seeing everything happening around him and hes telling you what you should do to do as god tells you to do.