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Permalink Reply by Zaharah Mohammed on June 28, 2012 at 9:20am

Calling on mike to help us figure this out !!! Thank you :)

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Permalink Reply by amt on July 22, 2012 at 10:15pm

It is about passing away. Read it again

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Permalink Reply by Andy Nares Larios on July 23, 2012 at 11:42pm

This song talk about faith, were it say "We're a puppets under loaded gun" talk about all the problems in our lives and how those problems try to make suicide us, and when that happens, just think in god and We can be better. Well, I think that everyone can have a diferent mean, maybe the real meaning its a ephemeral mean. Only each of us can have the answer.

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Permalink Reply by fahad abdul rauf on August 7, 2012 at 11:34am

it is a prophecy of the impending doom of this world on the day of judgement....the skies would bleed and burst apart...the oceans would boil up like it is kept on a stove......memories would be in cold decay( no one would remember anything but would be afraid).......the song reflects the ideology of some of the members with an extreme jewish mentality.....transmissions would be distorted on that day....everything would get annihilated....and no matter how much u try escaping...u CANNOT....!!!

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Permalink Reply by Henry Popovic on August 25, 2012 at 12:55pm

I was sure someone would have put what I think the song is about somewhere, but I can't find it.
Anyways, I believe the song is about the nuclear bomb.

"It can't be outfought,
It can't be outdone,
It can't be outmatched,
It can't be outrun"
I would say the nuclear bomb certainly applies to all those, considering it is a weapon of mass destruction.

"And when I close my eyes tonight,
To symphonies of blinding light!"
The bomb is basically made up of blinding light visually.

"Far from the world of you and I,
Where oceans bleed into the sky!"
The weapon itself is very powerful, and somewhat "beyond us". When it goes off, everything is in chaos, so oceans could "bleed into the sky" from a certain point of view.

"God save us everyone,
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?"
This one is pretty clear. Obviously if you're going to be in a nuclear explosion, there's pretty much a 100% chance of your death, and your last straw to grasp at is praying for salvation. And generally the entire "A Thousand Suns" theme refers to the nuclear bomb, so that part is pretty straightforward.

Anyways, I'm posting this a while after the album came out, but this is the conclusion I've come to.

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Permalink Reply by Brad Kurtz on October 11, 2012 at 9:36am

This song has relevance to many things, but in essence, I believe it is about nuclear weapons as stated above. However I think the song also makes specific references to the dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan.

"And when I close my eyes tonight,
Two symphonies of blinding light!"

I heard it as "two symphonies." While we slept, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the bomb went off. Perhaps this is supposed to be the idea of being responsible for the deaths of so many haunting the nightmares of people like Oppenheimer, whose quote about the bomb appears in the intro to the album: "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

"Far from the world of you and I,
Where oceans bleed into the sky!"

Japan was far from the US, so the effect we were having on them by dropping the nuke was a distant concept, happening in a "land far away" far out in the ocean.

"For the sins of our hands,
The sins of our tongues,
The sins of our fathers,
The sins of our young."

The people who were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not directly responsible for the war; they were mostly civilians. They were being punished for the "sins" of others.

I think there are many other references to nuclear weapons, and the way the world has changed after the fear that they bring.

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Permalink Reply by Nigel Ultee on November 17, 2012 at 3:25pm

I think, described in a short way, it's about the human race the destroying itself and realizing that something has to be done about this. But there's so much more in this song

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