The Seventh Seal
Apocalyptic Echoes: Embracing the Inevitable in Defiled Sacrament's 'The Seventh Seal'
Lyrics
Far across the Earth all of creation wails in harrowing torment
The world is in intense suffering and agony.
Far beyond the suns myriads of watchers go insane from their bloodlust
Powerful entities are driven mad by their violent desires beyond the multitude of suns.
Trapped inside our skin there's no escaping from the karma that's coming
Humanity is trapped in its own existence, unable to escape the consequences of its actions (karma).
Lord bring us the end open the floodgates and fulfill what's been written
A plea for divine intervention to bring about the end as prophesied.
The rancid smell of death fills the air
A pervasive stench of death permeates the surroundings.
Countless ecosystems burn away and disappear
Nature is being destroyed, ecosystems are disappearing through fire.
Mindlessly militarized these children indoctrinated yet smothered in their doubts
Children are trained for war but are conflicted with doubt.
They all know one thing is clear Time is running out
A sense of urgency prevails; time is running out.
Man, beast and birds alike shall soon face destruction and no one will stop it
All living creatures face impending destruction without intervention.
I can see it now centuries of mindless wars should already tell us we'll die for a profit
Reflection on centuries of war driven by greed and profit, leading to inevitable demise.
Written in the iron and blood
Symbolism of fate and destruction in iron and blood.
Signs of the ending of all
Indications of the approaching end of everything.
Mankind has become too broken for all of us to fix it
Humanity is too fractured to repair, likened to a wounded deer.
Like a deer laying struck in the ditch
Metaphor of the helplessness and vulnerability of mankind.
And all the nats and flies begin to harmonize conjuring symphonies from living human Sacrifice
Nature reacts to human atrocities, insects creating eerie harmonies from human sacrifices.
The waters fill with blood monuments fall to ash
Water turns to blood, monuments crumble, consequences of human greed acknowledged.
Killing ourselves with greed and we fucking deserve it
Self-destruction through excessive greed is acknowledged and deemed deserved.
So the end has begun hell is coming
An announcement that the end is underway, with the arrival of hell.
There is no solution to this calamity
Hopelessness is expressed, suggesting there is no solution to the ongoing catastrophe.
Beg now for absolution, no cheating prophecy
An appeal for forgiveness without attempting to manipulate the prophesied outcome.
Far across the Earth all of creation wails in harrowing torment
Repetition of the initial lines, emphasizing the widespread suffering on Earth.
Far beyond the suns myriads of watchers go insane from their bloodlust
Repetition of the second line, underlining the madness beyond the suns.
Trapped inside our skin there's no escaping from the karma that's coming
Reiteration of being trapped with no escape from impending karma.
Lord bring us the end open the floodgates
A plea for divine intervention to bring about the prophesied end.
And fulfill what's been written
A call for the fulfillment of the written prophecy.
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