THe Devil the song is from Satin perpespective
If we analize the lyrics, the song has obvious biblical references and I think it's a song about Lucifer>
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sweep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
Biblically Who rules the current age the devil. In Job he has power of the elements. At the end of this age he'll be cast out alone in hell, the streets part only fits if the whole church is raptured out, then again he won't be alone, or the earth will be destroyed. Basically the streets line dosen't fit my theory nicely.
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing,
"Now the old king is dead, long live the king!"
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt, pillars of sand
First 2 lines fit Satin a gambler, provoker of fear. King is dead refrence to the slain Christ, then long live refrence to his reserection and accension. The key he held, again he used to be lord of this planet, the walls cave in on him are from when Jesus said it is finished on the cross, to the end of the world, when it will be destroyed and Satin is cast into the lake of fire, all this material reality of Earth is a temporary existence compared to the eternity of hell he's chosen.
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you know there was never, never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
The never honest word, right to the garden of eden and the deception to Eve, the fall of man, and entrence of sin, and sin nature. Which has domanted existence to this day. Again who rules this world Satin.
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever wanna be king?
Wind, one of the titles of the deivl is prince of the air. People couldn't believe what he become, refrence to those who worshiped him the Anitchrist, will be shocked to see this being of light, and beauty and intelligence, on his day of judgement, his true awful and hideous nature will be shown, and people horrified to see him as he truly is. Revolutionaries in the book of Revelations the matarys cry out how long till they are avenged, they are the rebels of his rule, who want his head for theirs. A puppet is refrence to the anti chirst, the last line he's seeking pity.
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