Lyrics for Oblivion as interpreted by earthsick

Oblivion Lyrics
The enemy arrives
Escape into the night
Everybody run now
Everybody run now
Break into another time
This enemy alive
Divinity defines
Everybody run now
Everybody run now
Everybody run now
Everybody run

Under the burning sun
I take a look around
Imagine if this all came down
I'm waiting for the day to come

Come with us to the ride
Join in the fight
Everybody run now
Everybody run now
Break into another time
Unity divides
Division will unite
Everybody run now
Everybody run now
Everybody run now
Everybody run

Under the burning sun
I take a look around
Imagine if this all came down
I'm waiting for the day to come

Under the burning sun
I take a look around
Imagine if this all came down
America it's all so beautiful
Until it comes away

Under the burning sun I take a look around
Imagine if this all came down
Under the burning sun I take a look around
Imagine if this all came down
Under the burning sun I take a look around
Imagine if this all came

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Pitface
08-02-2002

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Amazing this one, these guys gonna be big in a few months. Read my Lips!

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j o r d a n 2 0 0 4
08-07-2002

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This song is amazing! It has the best atmospheric sound to it.

I think the song is about war, and the after effects of war.
"The Enemy Arrives" meaning the enemy has come.
"Imagine If This All Came Down" probably means the war, or fight could tear down the world we live in.

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B18CX
08-29-2002

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This IS the best song on this disk, bar none.

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B18CX
08-29-2002

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This IS the best song on this disk, bar none.

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ilovemymadmen
09-16-2002

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i absolutely love this song....the first time i heard it, i got goose bumps. this band rocks on a whole new level. and i'm addicted!

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bornonaugust10th
07-03-2003

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this song is cool it is almost how i feel at the very moment how i might explode into a oblivion and just don't know where or when okay peace.

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return2zero
12-21-2005

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"Under th burning sun" - Sounds like war in a desert.

"Divinity defines.." could be the only difference between the 'armies' is their religion.

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Ajbolt89
03-05-2006

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Definitely the best song on the album, it got me into the band enough to purchase this album. I agree that it's definitely about war and the problems with it... the America line basically is eluding to how easily war can erase beauty.

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Phyxius
04-12-2006

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"divinity defines" - religion is usually the first thing that people define themselves by, and use to separate themselves into enemies and friends, on a worldwide-scale, at least, which fits into the "unity divides" and the whole war overtones of this song.

GODDAMN I love this band.

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Shane_Mase
07-17-2006

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I can see how everyone is gettin a war view out of this, but i think its about the end in general armaggedon or whatever you believe, personally i am an athiest, but i think its about how the world could end at any minute and he's just waiting for it to come

but once again i hadn't even thought of the war view on it so thats another possible viewpoint.

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Justanothereject
10-03-2006

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This song Amazing!!!!I can't stop listening to it!!!

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SimplyAmazing
02-26-2007

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I think this song is about someone who is standing on a battlefield after a battle, looking around at all the bodies littering the ground. "Imagine if this all came down" refers to the aftermath, maybe if they were winning. I'm very sure it is an American soldier: "America it's all so beautiful" Or I could be wrong.

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minuteman
04-11-2007

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no, "echelon" is the best song on the disc. ;)

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minuteman
04-11-2007

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i would associate "imagine if this all came down" with sept. 11 ... personally ... ;|

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morrison24
06-14-2007

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this is defiantly about war and he wants everyone to help him but it can be so dangerous that they have to run away from it, just like george w bush

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.Three.Lefts.
07-05-2007

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It's kinda like he knows how bad it is where he is and he wants to get away. This song is mesmerizing, and the acoustic versian is amazing as well.

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Shiisuke
07-20-2007

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i agree dat this song has the best atmospheric sound ever! n the song sticks in my head like glue the first time i hear it... 8D 30STM rox forever!!!!!!!!

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djhayes383
08-11-2007

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I really love this song; the lyrics are superb. I think that it is about a global war whether it be people on earth fighting each other or uniting against a threat from outer space. I can really imagine these scenes when listening to this song and it is probably my favourite on the album.

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silently_suffering
09-30-2007

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I think this is about America falling, as a nation, because of war. Power isn't everything. Some fail to see that.

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Atagamay41
12-16-2007

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This is one of their sadder-seeming songs. At least it seems that way to me. Something about the way it's sung gives it a really nostalgic and slightly tragic mood.

I tend to see most 30 Seconds to Mars songs as short fiction in song form (which is really, REALLY creative and just awesome), so I take this song mostly literally. It's a sci-fi story, albiet a cryptic one.

But listening to it again, really thinking about it, I found another meaning in it.

I think it's about someone daydreaming about an apocalyptic event, and imagining if it happened right then ("under the burning sun, I take a look around, imagine if this all came down"). Now, thinking about that would probably scare most people, but the narrator of the song actually, in a deep, dark, visceral part of the mind, secretly looks forward to it, if and when it happens ("I'm waiting for the day to come"). Just look at the tone, especially in the middle part of the song. Doesn't it make it seem like it would be almost exciting for humankind to be taken down a few notches and return to fighting and running for our lives every day? S/he probably notices that, in society as it exists now, people tend to be subtly combative with one another, and show little care for others. But imagine what would happen if we had to help each other search for food and water, or protect our group from others? We would probably feel a lot more solidarity ("unity divides, division will unite").

Given that meaning, it's a very interesting song. I know I'm one of the people who sometimes think it would be a huge load off if a drastic change in the world would pull me out of my mundane life and launch me in to a fight for survival.

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Stolen_By_Music
01-23-2008

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Wow...I just watched a movie about this earlier today LOL. Anyways this is a really good song. I think it's about war and looking around, "What if this all came down" refers to what's around them that they love.

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Stolen_By_Music
01-23-2008

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Wow...I just watched a movie about this earlier today LOL. Anyways this is a really good song. I think it's about war and looking around, "What if this all came down" refers to what's around them that they love.

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xxRaWrxx
03-04-2008

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my favuorite line has to be "american its all so beautiful until it comes away.." Its so truthfull about the world, everything looks so beautiful but its really just covering up the truth.

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WhackyMak
03-06-2008

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I agree that this is the best song on the album, just gives off such a great meaning to the world. I think it is from the viewpoint of someone who truly sees what we have done with the world.

"Under the burning sun
I take a look around
Imagine if this all came down
I'm waiting for the day to come"

Although the "Under the burning sun" reminds me off an apocalyptic disaster, a barren wasteland that is left of the world.

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Hersey
01-14-2009

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Alright my take may be a little confusing but just listen..... So imagine your dreaming (or tripping) and you're thinking about what happens when you die. But it's one of those dream where you're trying to run from something but you don't feel like you're moving and it's inevitable that you're going to get caught by whatever:

It's night time and you're being chased by this evil person with a knife("enemy"), you're running but they're catching up. He's just about to get you, than BLIP! You tripped into a similar scene("Break into another time!"). You open your eyes and with the epiphany that God exists ("Divinity defines") with all his commandments, and you're damn sure. But the problem is, you haven't followed any of these commandment before. You're at your dying minutes from your unsuspected death from whatever killed you (enemy does exist ie. "alive"). Well since you didn't follow his commandments and you don't have time too, you're now screwed by God and sent to w/e Hell.
Okay, you're kinda realizing those weren't real, but you're still tripping. You're seeing the huge massive sun coming closer and closer to you (taking up more and more of what you can see) but you have time to think, you look around at it all. You soak it up and think to yourself, "I'm going to miss this".

BOOM you're back into your dream (I smoke another)... alright you broke into another time for real this time, you are standing in front of a blackhawk jet and you hear in the background of one of your soldier buddies, "Come with us to the ride". You're a soldier waiting to go to Afghanistan and you're terrified. And than you vaguely think back at the day you shook that recruiters hand(Join in the fight). BLIP! ("Break into another time!").
Okay, you just see black. In fact you don't see anything, it's just a thought that takes up vision(I realize this may not make sense to you...). You're watching TV (kinda the same because around the TV isn't in thought when you watch TV...) and you see countries going at war with each other ("Unity divides"). Countries plot and scheme(lol), and make allies and new enemies (enemies of new allies ie "Division will unite"), and the country you related with most is you, you're in the country, watching TV. One of those new enemies sent there soldiers and you're watching footage and people are just running, and running but they just can't get away from the enemy.

You go back to the scene where you're sitting on the grass watching the sun get ever closer. You have time to think, you look around at it all. You soak it up and think to yourself, "I'm going to miss this". You complete your thought, you were looking at the surroundings and you realize how beautiful earth ("America it's all so beautiful")is, and how you just couldn't bare to see it go (you were scared of death remember), you see visions of it gone ("Imagine if this all came down", and you just see more frequent visions of black (you dead, earth destroy by massive sun), and they get more frequent until it's just black. And you wake up....







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