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Mar 1st 2012!⃝I think a lot of people didn't understand that A Thousand Suns is a socio-political concept album.
"When you were standing in the wake of devastation
When you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
With the cataclysm raining down
Your insides crying, Save me now
You were there, impossibly alone."
Atomic bombs are falling from the sky (wake of devastation, cataclysm raining down). People don't know what is going to happen and have fear (waiting in the edge of the unknown, insides crying "save me now").
"And in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
You felt the gravity of tempered grace
Falling into empty space
With no one there to catch you in their arms."
The explosions killed a lot of innocent lives (burst of light that blinded every angel) and made a lot of mess (sky had blown the heavens into stars).
Some people survived (felt the gravity of tempered grace), but then found themselves in a place flattened by the bombs (Falling into empty space) and without their family (no one there to catch you in their arms).
"Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up all the failures, all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go.
Let it go."
Survivors feel desperate, lost and realize all their failures in the past.
Chester gives them an advice: remember the sadness and frustration of the human past (the actual society) and let it go (build up a new, better world).
