Lyrics for End of the Beginning as interpreted by flashflatliner

End of the Beginning Lyrics
Here we are searching for a sign
Here we are searching for a sign

It's the end here today
But I will build a new beginning
Take some time, find a place
And I will start my own religion

As the day divides the night
Here we are searching for a sign

Watch the men multiply
See them ease out of the circle
Watch your friends run and hide
Help them fall back in this cycle

Here we are searching

You saw what you get
If you take what you take
Look in the eye of the test
It's all because...
Now there's a feeling I get
When I look to the left
But it should never be sensed
Our searching for a sign

Can you feel it?
Things are changing
Can you see it?
Watch as the worlds colliding
Can you see it?
Can you feel it?
Watch as the worlds...
Collide into themselves
Collide into themselves

Another time, another place
Another time, another place
Some paradigm has shunned the race
Some paradigm has shunned the race

Searching
You saw what you get
If you take what you take
Look in the eye of the test
It's all because...
Now there's a feeling I get
When I look to the left
But it should never be sensed
Our searching for a sign

You saw what you get
If you take what you take
Look in the eye of the test
It's all because...
Now there's a feeling I get
When I look to the left
But it should never be sensed
Our searching for a sign

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Inept Sepulchral
07-02-2002

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...it might have something to do with how in life, you get and take that, and try to use to the best of its capabilities, but it never always is known of its intended purpose, and maybe we should just try to find that out somehow...

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hansdude84
08-05-2002

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There was a band that was very similar to 3tm a coupla years ago. THey were called Templar, and i believe that at that time the world just wasn't ready for a band like Templar but now I think the world wants omething different and finally bands like 3tm will be able to shine

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30STM_rules
10-13-2002

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its about him making his own religion. duh. "And I will start my own religion" favorite line is "you saw what you get if you take what you take". one of the best on the cd.

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Echelon30S2M
04-08-2003

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Not just starting a new religion but a new way of life "build a new begining" "watch the men multiply" And then those people being shunned, thus the end of the begining....*shrug* thats why I love 30 Seconds their songs can be taken many different ways.

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stebug
06-13-2003

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i think it is maybe the way that religions seem to rule everything we do, "watch the men multiply" is how people are converted, maybe some weird post apocolyptic religious war thing, but i think all songs are weird

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issues
07-26-2005

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stebug said exactly what i was gonna say.

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Hackstar18
02-05-2006

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I've never thought of it as a religious song, although it fits with the rest of the album. I've always thought of it as a person who's trying to uncover some deep, dark secret. But by doing so has caused them to learn something they shouldn't have and caused their world to come crashing down on them and everyone they know.

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chardsofglass
08-06-2006

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The entire first CD is a concept album I dont really know what it's all about, but basically it's got something to do with someone who believes he is a god and a war I have been told before. Ooh, it rhymes lol

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Unsound
06-14-2007

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Their debut album is a concept album centrered around the idea that space travel/ escaping earth represents separating from what humanity has become (which Leto doesn't consider very human); which is dominated by war and religeon, and ultimately, religeous wars ("This is what's right and we go to fight for freedom and justice and innocence so get out their and do your part while I sit back in washington- oh wait, you're already dead. Somebody bring me another 100k soldiers...)

Shine On

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Unsound
06-14-2007

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"You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run, Tried to hide
Break on through to the other Side"

Inspiration by the Doors?

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deadxlettersxc
07-14-2007

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I agree w/ Hackstar...but I think the deep dark secret is something inside of the speaker...

the whole cd seems to be about finding yourself and losing pieces of yourself in the process.

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Atagamay41
12-16-2007

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I always saw it as a story, like most of their songs. They work on their own, but sometimes, it seems like the album has an overarching story to it. Especially since so many of the songs borrow lines from each other. I actually agree with Hackstar on this as well. I always thought it was about someone trying to uncover something.

That really fits in with the "plot" of their songs. If not part of the same story, I always imagined their songs as taking place in the same fictional universe. I always imagined a world that had advanced space travel but wasn't very futuristic otherwise, and full of secret societies, corruption, desperate people, conspiracies, hidden/lost technology... Just a very dark, esoteric, violent world. (Pretty much what you said, Unsound!)

My favorite part is when he repeats "another time, another place." The mood of a short story I intend to write was actually somewhat inspired by the emotion in that line. (And the plot flashed before my eyes in a half-dream I had while waking up from a nap in a planetarium...)

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TheBloomfield
12-26-2007

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i think its not about 'their own religion' god u on drugs??

i think its about how things are changing, gettin better..getting worse whatever... but we all want to belong so people believe in their own spirituality and beliefs, not so much into mainstream religion...mm..i think

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TheBloomfield
12-26-2007

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i think its not about 'their own religion' god u on drugs??

i think its about how things are changing, gettin better..getting worse whatever... but we all want to belong so people believe in their own spirituality and beliefs, not so much into mainstream religion...mm..i think

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pstewart18
06-06-2009

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the way I see it, this band was named around a theory that science and the evolution of human-kind is so limited by our religion and the basic morals and laws we have formed around religion. thinking about it literally, "thirty seconds to mars", as in we are so close to being able to perform long-distance space travel, but we are being held back, amongst various other examples.

this song however makes me think of the continuation of this story perhaps, and it seems to me that this song depicts the segregation of the world into two new worlds, and their final confliction.

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Hihey9989
11-05-2009

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This is the best song by 30 Seconds to Mars. Amazing song!!!

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