Great Purification
Eternal Flames of Truth: Corrosion of Conformity's Message
Lyrics
Try but you cannot deny the earth is alive
Expressing the inability to deny the vitality of the Earth.
Our rivers, they are dying and smoke kills the sky
Highlighting environmental issues, with dying rivers and polluted skies.
Modern man's cities are built on their lies
Criticizing modern cities as being constructed on falsehoods.
When cleansing flames burn, no one can hide
Describing a scenario where cleansing flames reveal the truth, leaving no hiding place.
(From the truth)
An emphasis on the inescapable truth.
All love lost
Stating a loss of love or compassion.
Power is the heroin of the small-minded man
Portraying power as a destructive addiction for narrow-minded individuals.
And force, force is the needle, the gun in his hand
Equating force to a destructive tool, like a needle or a gun.
He lusts to control all the people and the land
Describing a lust for control over people and land.
Complete, total destruction, his ultimate end
Expressing the ultimate consequence of such control as complete destruction.
All love lost will be reborn
Suggesting the possibility of renewal after experiencing loss of love.
Fire will burn
Emphasizing the purifying nature of fire.
Take your first breath
Encouraging the audience to take their first breath, possibly symbolizing a fresh start.
Breathe your first freedom
Connecting the first breath to the experience of freedom.
Our Fourth world, nearing its end
Referring to the imminent end of the Fourth world.
Purification, close at hand
Highlighting the proximity of a purification event.
Our Fourth world, nearing its end
Reiterating the approaching end of the Fourth world.
Purification, close at hand
Reemphasizing the closeness of a purification event.
The time it happened all before, the end was a flood
Recalling a past event where the end came as a flood.
Man became so arrogant and paid with his blood
Attributing the past catastrophe to human arrogance and the price paid in blood.
No lesson was ever learned, our fate stays the same
Indicating a failure to learn from past mistakes, resulting in a recurring fate.
Profane civilization will perish in flame
Predicting the downfall of a profane civilization in flames.
All love lost
Repeating the theme of a loss of love or compassion.
Burn...
Commanding the action to burn, possibly as a symbolic act of purification or renewal.
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