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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 |
It's raining men is actually about fear of nuclear war. The song title is a metaphor for nuclear bombs. |
In regards to the apocalypse, there's a stanza or two from Genesis's epic "Supper's Ready" that stand out:
...With the guards of Magog, swarming around, The Pied Piper takes his children underground. Dragons coming out of the sea, Shimmering silver head of wisdom looking at me. He brings down the fire from the skies, You can tell he's doing well by the look in human eyes. Better not compromise. It won't be easy. 666 is no longer alone, He's getting out the marrow in your back bone, And the seven trumpets blowing sweet rock and roll, Gonna blow right down inside your soul. Pythagoras with the looking glass reflects the full moon, In blood, he's writing the lyrics of a brand new tune. And it's hey babe, with your guardian eyes so blue, Hey my baby, don't you know our love is true. I've been so far from here, Far from your loving arms, Now I'm back again, and babe it's gonna work out fine... |
I think 'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' by Dylan is the most striking lyrically. When Allen Ginsburg, perhaps the best of the Beat Poets, heard it, he wept.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Oh, where have you been, my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains, I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways, I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests, I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans, I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard, And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard, And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? Oh, what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it, I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin', I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin', I saw a white ladder all covered with water, I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin', Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world, Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin', Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin', Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin', Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter, Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley, And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son? Who did you meet, my darling young one? I met a young child beside a dead pony, I met a white man who walked a black dog, I met a young woman whose body was burning, I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow, I met one man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded with hatred, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son? Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one? I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin', I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest, Where the people are many and their hands are all empty, Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters, Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison, Where the executioner's face is always well hidden, Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten, Where black is the color, where none is the number, And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it, Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin', But I'll know my song well before I start singin', And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. |
Hellz yeah. Classic. |
hella old school but still totally on the mark
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I think there's lots of them.
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Bob takes the apocalypse with humor. |
how far we've come by matchbox twenty.
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Hell is Here by Saves The Day. A rather depressing song
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YouTube - radiohead - street spirit (fade out)
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead Rows of houses, all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and the strain I am under Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under And fade out again and fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady eyes All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again Immerse your soul in love IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE |
What about "The End" by the Doors ... was featured in the movie apocalypse :-p
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09-015-00 Part 1 by Godspeed You! Black Emperor always gave me a real apocalyptic image. And Part 2 always made me think of an apocalyptic aftermath. One of my favorite songs ever:
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YouTube - DOOM - Cellz [OFF "BORN LIKE THIS"]
DOOM - Cellz Intro by Charles Bukowski as well, I guess this song kind of fits the title. Someone is going to have to teach me to embed videos. :o: |
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The only good Doors song. |
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