This song can be interpreted as human survival in both a personal way (going through the pain of losing someone) and as a species that ruins its own world.
[Verse 1]
We suffer to survive
Are we desperate creatures crawling in the dirt?
Or are we lonely preachers hiding our beating hearts?
We sow the wind and reap the storm
Don't say you haven't been warned
[Pre-Chorus]
No future's written
There's endless possibility
[Chorus]
We suffer to survive
If hope is a prison, then maybe faith will set me free
We suffer to survive
Am I just a victim drifting in the raging sea?
We suffer to survive
[Verse 2]
If a kingdom resides behind my own eyes
I've got to catch the stone and cradle the wave
Damnation is just a daydream away
But still, we carry on
If I'm God in disguise, praying for the rain
And if our demons decide, then is this all in vain?
We sow the wind and reap the storm
Don't say you haven't been warned
[Interlude]
It's time to confess
I haunt this flesh
I answer my own prayers
I bid my own despair
[Pre-Chorus]
No future's written
There's endless possibility
[Chorus]
We suffer to survive
If hope is a prison, then maybe faith will set me free
We suffer to survive
Am I just a victim drifting in the raging sea?
We suffer to survive
[Bridge]
But still, we carry on
There's a lesson in this, what I resist persists
And damnation is just a daydream away
[Chorus]
If hope is a prison, then maybe faith will set me free
We suffer to survive
Am I just a victim drifting in the raging sea?
We suffer to survive
Damnation was written by Josh Middleton & Dan Searle.
Damnation was produced by Dan Searle & Josh Middleton.
Architects released Damnation on Fri Nov 09 2018.
Really cool riff on this. I’m super stoked with how it came out and it’s actually one of my favourite drumming on the record. I love how pissed off the verses are and also how the chorus is referring to hope as a prison from “Gone with the Wind.” I like how we managed to finish that line off for our...