Wildfire

This is a screed against the destruction of the environment for the sake of corporate profit and general greed. The narrator charges humanity, under the direction of amoral corporations, with needless, wanton destruction of our environment. The song also hints that Nature will have it's due.

//You didn't come in peace, wear a flower in your hair //Didn't mean to harm anyone of us in here //You need what you take, like a candle needs a snowflake

You (general you, corporation, humanity) messed up the environment, but claimed that it was accidental and were just trying to survive. That's BS, because we didn't need to cut down as many forests/drill for as much oil/etc just to live a decent life.

Humanity's incessant need to exploit every facet of our environment is likened to "Waging a war to a mountain", but just because we're the top of the foodchain doesn't mean that we will always win against nature; "Know that if Mountain wants you all begone, thou wilt be gone".

//You bring in the machines "fire in the hole!" //Money is the power, morals gotta go //Tomorrow comes and the law is not a problem. //Corruption. //On every standing nail a hammer is to fall //No value in the oddities, evolution's gone //Talk is cheap but the suits are not

These lines continue top paint a picture of amoral, soulless corporations, represented by talking heads in expensive suits, finding ways to eke out every bit of profit from the natural environment, at the expense of not only said environment, but the beauty in unguided nature ("No value in the oddities, evolution's gone"). The methods that the corporations employ are not only amoral, but oftentimes corrupt.

//Thy will be done, thou wilt be dead If we keep f--king with Nature, it's eventually gonna f--k us back.

//You dig another hole in the one you´re standing in //Nothing is enough for Generation Greed //Angels die for the cause, long live the faction //If you have access, "it is fine to reave!" //You only destroy to be able to leave //This planet one day, what a perfect day!

This is expanding on the totally unnecessary extent to which we've wrecked the planet. We have what we need, but humanity just has to take even more. The end goal is the destruction of a habitable planet, but the uber-wealthy don't care because they're already making plans to GTFO (Jezz Bezos and the other billionaires getting into the space travel game).

//Fiat iustitia, Pereat Mundus This is classical latin for, "Let justice be done, let the world perish"

//Tulkoon oikeus, tuhoutukoon maailma This is the same as above, but in the Finnish language *(Sonata Arctica is a Finnish band, after all).

//Seen so many of you die, thy will be gone. Yay!

Self-explanatory. Goes with the above phrases.

//You are wasting your life, use a pen as a knife //Always wanna take more than you ask for //All your promises reek, gluttony makes you weak. //Our planet is ever so grateful, //Grateful when your offspring´s gone, done!

Continuing to paint a picture of greedy corporations destroying the environment. "[using] a pen as a knife", meaning using regulations, corrupt laws, lobbying, and bribery to give themselves approval to frack, mine, deforest, and generally destroy our natural resources. Nature will rejoice when global climate changes wipes out our species.

There are more verses that I am skipping, because further explanation would be redundant.

//The Mountain still wants to believe, you can turn the page again //You lose your hope here, one by one //Listen to me, son, you've got nowhere to run

There's still a chance for humanity to repair enough of the damage we have done to the environment, to save both the environment and ourselves by extension, to "turn the page again", so to speak. It's really our last hope, because we've "go nowhere to run".

//Species, generations. Extinct? Evolved? //What you call progress, must be put on hold //To let you have your way is not an option

Industrialization and over-consumption is literally killing the environment, and when that happens, we kill ourselves.