Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: Iron Maiden

Posted by Dr. Sulabh Shrestha | Posted in ironmaiden , videos | Posted on 4:05 AM

Lyrics:

We are not the sons of God

We are not his chosen people now

We have crossed the path he trod

We will feel the pain of his beginning

Shadow fingers rise above

Iron fingers stab the desert sky

Oh behold the power of man

on it's tower ready for the fall

Knocking heads together well

Raise a city, build a living hell

Join the race to suicide

Listen for the tolling of the bell

Out of the universe, a strange love is born

Unholy union, trinity reformed

Yellow sun its evil twin

in the black the winds deliver him

We will split our souls within

Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven

Out of the universe, a strange light is born

Unholy union, trinity reformed

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Bury your problems and bury your dead

Bury your head in the sand

E=MC squared you can relate,

How we made God

With our hands

Whatever would Robert have said to his God

About how we made war with the Sun

E=MC squared you can relate,

How we made God

With our hands

All nations are rising,

Through acid veils of love and hate

Chain letters of Satan

Uncertainty led us all to this

All nations are rising,

Through acid veils of love and hate

Cold fusion and fury

Divide and conquer while ye may

Others preach and others fall and pray

In the bunkers where we'll die

There the executioners they lie

Bombers launch with no recall

Minute warning of the missile fall

Take a look at your last sky

Guessing you won’t have the time to cry

Out of the universe, a strange light is born

Unholy union, trinity reformed

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousands suns

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Out of the darkness,

Brighter than a thousand suns

Holy Father we have sinned

This song has one of my favorite lyrics. It is a song from the album "A Matter Of Life And Death" released on 2006. It is about "The Manhattan Project". It is a reference to the detonation of the first atomic bomb. The title of the song "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" refers to a comment made by one of the scientists after viewing the explosion of atom bomb at the Trinity site. The "Robert" in the song refers to the head of the whole project, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. And the constant reference to E=MC squared (theory of relativity) refers to Einstein's involvement in the building of the weapon. So, this song is about the stupidity that we have done by creating something that has the potential to destroy the creation of god. So, we are not the sons of God.

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