let me first say that i am an atheist but will be interpreting this from a christian or jewish or what have you point of view.
I think this whole song has to do with soldiers and how they are in God's eyes. When they say "Young men standing on top of their own graves" i believe it is because the second they take a life they have died in God's eyes, thus why they are standing on their graves. When "God is wearing Black" it is because he is mourning the "death" of all his sons.
and everyone looks at this from the soldier's point of view which i believe is totally correct but they do it wrong. Soldier's see so many terrible things overseas. I'm not saying that there's tons being killed each day, it's the innocent children and people that are caught in the crossfire that really make the impact. When some village is bombed or something and the forces are walking through the ruins seeing rubble and bodies strewn all over, some of them think "God, what have i done, I caused this." the soldier's have gone so far overseas to fight some mysterious enemy they don't know much about just to see that there is no hope here, it's so so pointless, no one can really ever win, there will always be casualties on each side and casualties to the innocents caught inbetween. Sure, alot of them come back, but they are never really the same, they have seen horrible things, thus "They have gone so far to find no hope, they're never coming back." the person who comes back will never really be the same as the person who left, there will always be one little thing that's different that you just can't put your finger on.
let me first say that i am an atheist but will be interpreting this from a christian or jewish or what have you point of view.
I think this whole song has to do with soldiers and how they are in God's eyes. When they say "Young men standing on top of their own graves" i believe it is because the second they take a life they have died in God's eyes, thus why they are standing on their graves. When "God is wearing Black" it is because he is mourning the "death" of all his sons.
and everyone looks at this from the soldier's point of view which i believe is totally correct but they do it wrong. Soldier's see so many terrible things overseas. I'm not saying that there's tons being killed each day, it's the innocent children and people that are caught in the crossfire that really make the impact. When some village is bombed or something and the forces are walking through the ruins seeing rubble and bodies strewn all over, some of them think "God, what have i done, I caused this." the soldier's have gone so far overseas to fight some mysterious enemy they don't know much about just to see that there is no hope here, it's so so pointless, no one can really ever win, there will always be casualties on each side and casualties to the innocents caught inbetween. Sure, alot of them come back, but they are never really the same, they have seen horrible things, thus "They have gone so far to find no hope, they're never coming back." the person who comes back will never really be the same as the person who left, there will always be one little thing that's different that you just can't put your finger on.
@nleonard That's really insightful. Thanks for the read bro!
@nleonard That's really insightful. Thanks for the read bro!