Song of the Week- "Chasing the Rapture"
By 10 Years
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The Lyrics of "Chasing the Rapture"*:
Wounded words from sharpened tongues Are spewing from our mouths Without a translation We're just making sounds The pride of a lion is your disguise But the fear of a coward's in your eyes You're chasing the rapture Praying for a Perfect disaster To save us from ourselves We need more than miracles We need to answer For the blood on our hands now And save us from ourselves Out of sight and out of mind Make everything alright So let the sky and sea collide Just not in our lifetime The end is running late tonight The kingdom comes crashing Down into ashes Careful what you're asking for You're chasing the rapture Praying for a Perfect disaster To save us from ourselves We need more than miracles We need to answer For the blood on our hands now And save us from ourselves We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers Chasing the rapture Praying for a Perfect disaster To save us from ourselves You're chasing the rapture Praying for a Perfect disaster To save us from ourselves We need more than miracles We need to answer For the blood on our hands now And save us from ourselves We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers We're comfortable killers *Lyrics courtesy of AZLyrics |
The Meaning of "Chasing the Rapture": "Chasing the Rapture" is a song about the Christians who spend all their time saying that the end is coming, the rapture is coming, we must prepare for it. They are "praying for the perfect disaster to save them from themselves." They think that all will be well once the rapture comes to take them away from what they've become. They have killed people and hurt people and rejected people in the name of God and now say that all will be as it should be, just wait for the end. These people keep setting dates for this end, but "the end is coming late tonight." They have become "comfortable killers" because of their belief that the rapture will come and erase their sins. They believe that they do not need to worry about taking care of the planet and dealing with global warming and species dying out. They are using the rapture as an excuse to avoid dealing with the important problems on hand. This is the song that first turned me onto 10 Years, so I suggest listening to it. More songs to look into would be Fade Into (The Ocean), Fix Me, Don't Fight It, Beautiful, Battle Lust, Minus the Machine, and Forever Fields. |
