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Songs about the apocalypse
I'll start with the two most nutnumbingly famous ones:
YouTube - The Clash- London Calling YouTube - Talking Heads "Burning Down the House" |
Metallica - blackened
lyrics: Blackened is the end Winter it will send Throwing all you see Into obscurity Death of Mother Earth Never a rebirth Evolution's end Never will it mend Never Fire To begin whipping dance of the dead Blackened is the end To begin whipping dance of the dead Color our world blackened Blistering of earth Terminate its worth Deadly nicotine Kills what might've been Callous, frigid chill Nothing left to kill Never seen before Breathing nevermore Never Fire To begin whipping dance of the dead Blackened is the end To begin whipping dance of the dead Color our world blackened Blackened Opposition, contradiction, premonition, compromise Agitation, violation, mutilation, planet dies Darkest color Blistered earth True death of life Termination, expiration, cancellation, human race Expectation, liberation, population laid to waste See our mother Put to death See our mother die Smoldering decay Take her breath away Millions of our years In minutes disappears Darkening in vain Decadence remains All is said and done Never is the sun Never Fire To begin whipping dance of the dead Blackened is the end To begin whipping dance of the dead Fire Is the outcome of hypocrisy Darkest potency In the exit of humanity Color our world blackened Blackened |
Apocalypse Please by Muse has to be on of the worst about the end of the world. The lyrics are just awful even for Muse standards. I'll spare you posting a vid.
But REM's It's The End of the World has got to be my favorite. |
^^ Bad Day
Yeah, quite a good tune, a bit different from their other stuff at the time. Just a fun track. |
Great thread idea, I ****ing love this song. Super cheese though.
Six Feet Under - This Graveyard Earth http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k6...0342890e32.jpg Every one of us already plagued Soon to wipe out the human race A planet of life, infected since birth Dominated by power, war and wealth Over time accelerated A vicious circle we have perpetuated We will die before we wake We'll never know it's too late This graveyard earth Time to bleed again and again When it's all over we'll just be bones in the sand Monuments built of stone and blood and skin Decaying through the years and found by no one Over time accelerated A vicious circle we have perpetuated We will die before we wake We'll never know it's too late This graveyard earth We've got our own blood on our hands We are all cursed Our world is dead, another faded memory Desolation - sacrificed for nothing This graveyard earth Our fate we create, but we still destroy Murdering ourselves - time to diewe are all cursed Every one of us already plagued Soon to wipe out the human race A planet of life, infected since birth Dominated by power, war and wealth Over time accelerated A vicious circle we have perpetuated We will die before we wake We'll never know it's too late This graveyard earth |
Have you any idea how many of these there are? Anywho, if it's apocalypse ya wants, check out God Forbid's album "IV: Constitution of Treason", entire album tells a story of a post-apocalyptic America very similar to that of the Fallout series (I still say the song "Welcome To the Apocalypse" belongs in the part of Fallout 3 when you first leave the vault, the lyrics and the tone of the song fit the scene perfectly).
What's this? An elitist metalhead is suggesting a -core band? Yes, yes I am, one of the few -core bands I like, not all -core sucks, just most of it |
I always thought Tool's Ænema had themes of apocalypse running through it... more specifically California sinking into the ocean but still a song that promotes thought about the end of the world, etc.
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Tool's videos are so damn good.
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...I didn't know "burning down the house" was apocalyptic, I thought it was just about a really wild party.
The lyrics to this song always make me smile.Especially the nukes: "giant pencil and lipstick tube shape things continue to rain and cause screaming pain".:laughing: Jimi Hendrix 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) Hurrah i awake from yesterday alive but the war is here to stay so my love catherina and me decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea not to die but to be re-born away from a life so battered and torn.... forever... oh say can you see its really such a mess every inch of earth is a fighting nest giant pencil and lip-stick tube shaped things continue to rain and cause screaming pain and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red as our feet find the sand and the sea is strait ahead.. strait ahead..... well its too bad that our friends cant be with us today well thats too bad "the machine that we built would never save us" thats what they say (thats why they aint coming with us today) and they also said "its impossible for man to live and breath underwater.. forever" was their main complaint (yeah) and they also threw this in my face: they said anyway you know good well it would be beyond the will of God and the grace of the King (grace of the King yeah yeah) so my darling and I make love in the sand to salute the last moment ever on dry land our machine has done its work played its part well without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise of the out of style... the out of style, out of style |
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