After crashing back down into an expressed or faithless state, their beliefs are so fractured and deformed you can literally taste the hate.

In reference to the Greek myth of Icarus, a human being who tried to fly with wings made of wax, only to get too close to the sun. His wax wings melted and he crashed back down back to Earth. It often holds a religious significance and is compared to someone trying to reach a God-like state in humanity only to find themselves crashing down into the dirt beneath them and shattering their beliefs in the process.

Emphasizes the title of the song, saying that it’s too late to recover any chances of redemption from their viewpoint and that it truly is the beginning of the end, so you mine as well wave your white flags and start custom-making your caskets kiddies, it’s a long road to hell.

A popular phrase, “God helps the ones that help themselves” which is often misinterpreted as an actual Bible quote when the truth is that it comes directly from the Ancient Greek collection of fables, Aesop’s Fables. Of course within these circumstances it’s meant with a negative context as to justify someone’s greed with God’s permission to allow themselves to gain anything they want if they tried & believe they have holy support.

Another blunt, more involved representation of saying “Screw you, I’m looking out for me and me only.” Greed seems to play the most blunt number within the album, whether it’s to other people and their possessions or the Earth itself as shown in songs such as “The Warning”, “Capital G”, and “Survivalism”

Simply representing greed & selfishness with no concern for others respect or otherwise.

This line suggests that while the ruling class of power has considerable wealth and resources, it has come at the cost of oppressing those who do not fit into to the new ideologies of the dystopian society of Year Zero.

Most likely taken from the viewpoint of a soldier, this is meant to portray the distortion of the person’s self-image, their acts and knowledge of what’s going on in the country making them feel like some foreign monster.

Not meant to be taken in a literal sense, this line is meant as a metaphor to the immense amount of paranoia spread everywhere to the point where if you talk about the government funny they’ll probably consider you as their next test subject.

The almighty and infamous name featured as just the immoralistic protagonist within Super Fly also applies to the African-American culture and it’s reputation through the category of already existing stereotypes to represent the unfairness, loose morality and cheapness of the drug-dealing underbelly.