It’s a song about war, based on the Doomsday Clock, a clock set by scientists in the 80’s, set at 2 Minutes To Midnight, to signify how close we always are to a nuclear war. The songs lyrics are mostly metaphors for war and the horrors of the killing in war. \m/ Stay Metal \m/
Yep.. and now it's down to 30 seconds. There is about a 99% chance that within 50 years climate change is going to have a massive effect on agriculture. There is already completely unheard of drought in africa, the mid east and s.america. in northern countries like the u.s. and russia.. you actually NEED freezing cold for the wheat to mature. And in China they are out of water in their grain growing region.. literally 100 lakes and thousands of wells have dried up. There is very little doubt this will cause crop collapses very soon... and starving people migrate and fight for food.
You guys are getting this song so much now that you’re analyzing the lyrics. I love how you do a lyric review also. I remember when I 1st heard it when it came out and actually thought the “to kill the unborn in the womb” was about abortion and it bothered me so much until my friends and I sat down and read the lyrics in context. We realized it was not about abortion, and that using that line causes people to react like you 2 did. You got to shake people really bad if you want end the war and killing. Now 35 years later the world is the same. A few people start these wars and make money and get power And how easily and happily they do it.
Just cutting and pasting Wikipedia: A protest song about nuclear war, "2 Minutes to Midnight" was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson. The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight in the 20th Century, when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. The atomic clock, set at 12 minutes to midnight in 1972, regressed thereafter among US-Soviet tensions, reaching three minutes to midnight in 1984 - the year this track was released - and at that time the most dangerous clock reading since 1953. According to Dickinson, the song critically addresses "the romance of war" in general rather than the Cold War in particular.
There is a strong focus on the political and capitalist elite that perpetuate war. The war industry in a world of perpetual war is the golden goose. It is a criticism of all war, and the ones who lobby to make money from war. They sing about the Vietnam war for example.
Lyrics in Metal work a lot with metaphors, with comparisons and visual language. One must not always take everything literally but sometimes think around the corner to understand the meaning behind it. You two have done a real great job here. Edit: The Song is about the Doomsday Clock ;-)
It is about the weapons industry. How politicians and war industry work to make each other rich and powerful trough a cycle of war. Hence stuff like "The golden goose is on the lose and never out of season" and "The fortune, the glory, the pain". How capitalism plays the role of perpetuating war. The capitalists manipulates politicians. The politicians then manipulates the people in to supporting the capitalists. The ones who own/run this world has far more power over us than we have over them. Because we let them.
It's actually a protest song about nuclear war,.the song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe at midnight. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight in the 20th Century.
"To the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun "....... $94 Million on food banks and social housing OR $94 million on a new F35 fighter jet.... Ooooh look at our shiny new jet !!
Not millions; milliards - not a word at all in American English, but in Britain (and most countries, actually) it means 1,000,000,000 which is the American "billion". The British definition of a billion is "a million squared".
I'm an ex roadie for maiden and a lot of songs around this time was based on war this one is no exception its prmarilly about the second world war and the hipocrocy of war and the military in general
As someone that is a contemporary of the guys in Iron Maiden (and a big fan) we are sort of a bit of a lost generation we are NOT baby boomers, we are not gen-X-er's. In other words we came of age in the 80's, were just starting high school when Regan was elected the first time, we grew up in elementary school watching the public service films about what happens when we get hit with some Russian Nukes. Etc etc etc... this song evokes the feeling many of us had of being to resigned to the end-game and strange feeling shared by my generation that all of the lies and incomprehensible conditioning we had about "the enemy, the evil empire" were reflected right back on us by an equal and opposite thought process on the other side of it. We understood the shear insanity of all of it, the inhumanity and evil, but also understood we were all marching down this path with not a lot of "better solution". Think of this song (and many others of the era) as an imagining of being part of the end game of it... a full scale nuclear exchange, mass destruction and murder with the survivors being trotted out, handed some weapons and gear to finish this once and for all bullet to bullet, tactical nuke to tactical nuke, bayonet to bayonet just to be the last "civilization/ideology" standing... win or lose trying desperately not to "lose" OR... be one of those on either side that are just sifting through the rubble getting ground up one way or another (jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you) You get the idea. Really hard to grasp if you didn't grow up and enter adulthood during the Cold War. Trust me when the USSR went away and the Cold War ended my generation pretty much lost a bunch of built in anxiety and aren't too fearful of the threats of today relatively speaking.
Tasha hit the nail on the head when she say, don’t go to war at all, that where very meaningful for me, the all ways passéfist, really hate what men are capable of coming to find new “better” ways hurt, maim and kill echoer, so sad some are thinking like that
I think maiden wants people to feel shock. That want your attention because they are angry about our war obsessed countries and they want people to see the evil of the war profiteers and people in power. You want to change things you have shock people to get them to pay attention. 1 of the lines even mentions “the blind man”. The blind men are the majority of America and England to name a few. Blind men go along with all of this. So is Maiden trying to shock people with these lyrics? HELL YES they are!
Roger Welsh they’re like New Historicism with figurative language. I tend to think about nuclear war when I hear this song, and a nuclear blast can literally burst your eye balls. You’re right to see that it’s about these leaders who are blind with their pride, and see prayer as beneath them, hence when they declare: don’t you pray for our souls. These leaders are blind in hubris, and then blinded by their self destructive desire to dominate for the sake of it. This is just a modern reinterpretation of Oedipus Rex, who’s hubris blinds him to the reality that he has killed his father, married his mother, damned his city, doomed his children and his soul. Oedipus’ is a mockery of destiny, just like nuclear warfare is a mockery of civilization.
I must be getting hella old, I just assumed everyone understood 2 minutes to midnight as the doomsday clock 😳 but the way, it’s 1 min to midnight as of January 23rd
"...and the jellied brains of those who remain..." - this is a reference to those who got shell shocked by explosions, I believe. Back in the late 90's, I was living next door to an older gentlemen who's head was *still* screwed up from WW2. He had been too close to the bombardments and he was never right again. The man was not crazy, but he was not all *there*.
WW2 was hard on the young men who served. My farther served, he did about 8 months in the guard then activated . He went to train at Hell and blood training camp with his cousin Silas, Si went to Pacific to visit Japan. My dad went to Africa, the Middle East, then Europe where he and his Easy Company brothers fought the Natzies,, Germans the rest of war.the band of brothers they were co C 255 . I have his records . Active 5yrs 1 month. Yell it fucked that young man up. 90% of those great young men had never been over 200 miles from home. Dads two brothers and all his cousins went! Not all came home! I was just a little boy and remember him waking up screaming. Then spend rest of nite asking for forgiveness! These band of brothers took the lick for the rest of us! God bless them. God took my dad when I was 8 yrs old. I miss that gentle man still today 53 yrs later!🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Co. E 255 I ment to type . They called them the 255 easy co band of brothers! Yes I’m proud of my dad. That war finally killed him 1966 November after over 20 yrs of morning the losses !god bless them boys🍀
Old men start war - young men (babies) fight them. War is hell on earth. I'm a 49 year old, battle-tested headbanger and the lyrics shocked all of us Maiden fans the first time we heard them. But the lyrics are meant to scare the hell out of us. "To the tune of starving millions..." lyric is a scathing indictment of the world's leaders engaging in an arms race while millions of people in this world starve everyday.
Ok so 2 minutes to midnight is a reference to the infamous doomsday clock, where the closer the hands of the clock get to midnight, the closer humanity gets to destroying itself. This is a war protest song. The golden goose refers to the goose from the fairy tale that laid golden eggs and was fought over so whoever possessed it would gain wealth. As a simile for the prize of war, this golden goose is never out of season, so politicians in charge of nations can go to war at any time for any chosen fairy tale prize. Killing the unborn in the womb is a reference to killing off future generations if we ever reach midnight and destroy ourselves in a nuclear war. Oiling the jaws of the war machine and feeding it with our babies refers to the political leaders spinning their reasons for war in the media, getting the nation on side to back the war, and thus support it with our labour and industry, but then also send our own sons and daughters off to fight and die in the war we supported.
Iron maiden seems to be very antiwar and anti violence in most of their music. BTW, Maiden is one of my favorite bands. I was a teen listening to this in the eighties so yes I AM OLD now, lol. Another song, this one by Ozzy, is "Killer of Giants" that is in the same vein. But Graham's analysis of this song is spot on.
The song is a protest on the romance and commercialization of war and the nuclear buildup. The "unborn in the womb" refers to nuclear missles in their silos. "Midnight refers to nuclear war and we are now much closer than 2 minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock.
If you don't feel your heart shrink down into a rock in fear of what they're describing here, on that day... then, man, I just don't know. Iron Maiden is not glorifying war. They're telling us about a moment, from the hardest place, and we should consider what that means. It breaks the heart, even just reading the title.
Your reaction videos and lyric videos are so good. It’s a joy to see people discovering Maiden, and really brings me back. I always get a few Jeopardy questions every week based on things I’ve learned from Iron Maiden songs.
Two minutes to midnight is also commonly referred to as the witching hour which in old times of superstition was the time in which the gates of hell would briefly open to release demons and creatures of evil to reign terror and chaos upon people.
I think the first line is something about the kind of round nations are "allowed" to use in war against each other, rounds designed to maim rather than kill. For example a FMJ vs a hollow point.
Love you guys, you guys are intelligent. The ability to think, question and decipher things are things that we must teach to all children. Makes me so happy to see you guys understand the true message of old school metal.
Definitely an anti Military Industrial Complex song! War is very very profitable for a lot of people! Let’s start with Oil first, then land, power, resources, etc.
A great anti war song. It's critical of the various reasons given for wars and the "mad men" who lie to us. First heard this over 30 years ago, and it's making more and more sense, over the intervening years.
"2 minutes to midnight To kill the unborn in the womb" to me represents that if the Doomsday Clock strikes midnight, it is the end of all humanity (WWIII, nuclear Armageddon, etc.) thus "killing the unborn in the womb" or put another way, killing all future generations of humanity before they are created/born. I still get chills every time I hear this song. For those of us that grew up during the height of the Cold War, it seemed like the world could fall into nuclear war at any time. I still remember having drills in school where they'd sound an alarm (similar to the fire alarm) and we'd all have to fall to the floor and hide under our desks. I'm getting the shivers just remembering that. Anyway, just my two cents. Love y'all!
A protest song about nuclear war, "2 Minutes to Midnight" was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson. The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight in the 20th Century, when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. The atomic clock, set at 12 minutes to midnight in 1972, regressed thereafter among US-Soviet tensions, reaching three minutes to midnight in 1984 - the year this track was released - and at that time the most dangerous clock reading since 1953. According to Dickinson, the song critically addresses "the romance of war" in general rather than the Cold War in particular.
Everyone has said this already, but the song is based on the idea of the Doomsday Clock. The idea is politicians (madmen) send our Children (drafted soldiers in WWII) to war. Basically an anti war song typical in the 70’s and 80’s rock scene
The Doomsday Clock was set at 2 Minutes to Midnight in 1953 in response to America testing a Hydrogen bomb. It never came that close to midnight again until 2018. Right now it is set at 1 minute 40 seconds to midnight. Dio - "The Last in Line"
Hey I love yur reactions.., and I’ve had this song described to me as it’s talking about wars throughout history... also I’ve been told that it’s about the Vietnam War...and napalm is a flammable gel like substance that was used a lot in the Vietnam War and Korea. It covers the corruption in governments and war
It's about the nuclear war and the jellied brains of veterans. War is the golden goose that's never out of season. Watch the video in the video the purpose is clearer. Before we had a color code system for national emergency alert level we had a clock and midnight was nuclear war. When we came closest to war it was 2 minutes to midnight. It's hard to interpret without context I'd love to see your reaction to the video now that you know the lyrics I bet it will change the song for you.
Time - Pink Floyd. You need to also do a lyrical breakdown.. One of the greatest songs EVER written!!! The song speaks about how we waste time in our youth, chase it as we realize what we missed out on, then grow old filled with regret. The older we get, the more powerful this song becomes. Oh yeah, and it's a bona fide masterpiece..
Check out the Iron Maiden song Brighter than a Thousand Suns from the 2006 recording "A Matter of Life and Death " it's about the Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima that ended WWII Very graphic video. Great song.
The song is in reference to the doomsday clock during the cold war. The doomsday clock was developed in a case of a human made global catastrophe (during that time period nukes could have been fired at any time on both sides). Killing the unborn in the womb is basically the doomsday clock striking midnight where the world has been completely destroyed by nukes and nobody survives. Even those that are yet to be born.
It's basically based on the album cover that you show throughout your video, take a closer look and you'll see most of the Arab nations flags as well as the American and partially covered up British flag flying infront of the mushroom cloud. This song represent's the western world's invasion of the Middle East for their oil reserves and the sacrifice of our unknowing brainwashed youth who fought and died to aquire that piece of the map for our government's. Anything in this song that mention's the word black or oil or any other connuctation of the world is a hint of the war for oil
I've always taken the song to be about the Vietnam war. "Blood is Freedom's stain" is about the American war machine. Lied to by leader talking about "freedom" when the war is actually about making profits for military contractors and oil companies that donate to both democrats and republicans.
Love all your reactions TNT nice to see you reacting with your wife . The song references a doomsday clock, the symbolic clock used buy the Bulletin of the atomic scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe .
I saw references for the 2 of you to do the song “The Clansman”. PLEASE NOTE ...THE SONG IS NOT ABOUT THE KKK!! people make this assumption when they see the title. So don’t shy away from playing this song.
I think this is one of the greatest anti-war songs. Its raw and holds no punches. It points at war mongers and profiteers, but also all of us for going along with and enabling it. We all share some burden for the innocents lost in war, our children and the suffering it causes. Spending billions on the ability to kill people at the expense of humanity.
To kill the unborn in the womb...they're saying that in war, civilians are casualties...and women who are with child are sometimes killed...its a song about the attrocities of war.
The reasons for the carnage to me represent the politicians/officials sitting back and watching the chaos unfold and profitting from the spoils of war while people's children are sent off to war and potentially never seen again (we oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies).
Maybe watch the official video also, it's hard to put together a song with just hearing symbolism and catch phrases, can't take it literally,it just wouldn't make sense, title entails the doomsday clock,song is about war and the people who start and those who fight them!!!✌️🇺🇸
The song is protest about nuclear war and it references the "Doomsday clock" a refence used by "the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist", which represents a countdown to nuclear global catastrophe. During the cold war in September 1953 the clock reached ( Two Minutes) to midnight, the closest the world have got to Armageddon . Its also it again 1984 when it reached 3 minutes to midnight. The song also critically addresses "the romance of war" and the to kill the unborn in the womb is refencing that young men and women Soldier die in war and most of then as young as 16 years old making them in the sense of the ward babies.
run to the hills shows the way that both sides felt the conflict between the english and the indians. it does promote anything. it mostly show how bad the english/americans were.
The mad man is referring to Hitler primaily but it could be put to any warmonger that has been or possibly could be the children torn in 2 and killed in the womb is mostly about the way the Nazis killed people no matter what age and pregnant women tortured raped and killed during that time, the jellied brains is about Hitler's senior officers and how he had them convinced that what they where doing was the right thing to do
When I get out of the song like when they say go to war again that's ww2 and Fead German war machine with our babys just cuz the guys 21 and fighting don't mean he ant his mom's baby. And the doomsday clock if it ever reaches midnight we're done nuclear hollicost I think one time during the Cold war it actually got to two minutes to midnight. The scientist uses this clock to show how close we are to nuclear Holocaust
If you’re going to review the need to understand is everything. If this is your interpretations the track then fair enough. “Don’t you pray for my soul anymore.” Is not a question. This is glorifying war and the reasons for war. By protesting as strongly as possible against it.
Has the band ever said anything about the line "to kill the unborn in the womb"? I don't see how that's not a reference to abortion and I'm not even hardcore pro life? Seems like they would've worded things differently if it wasn't a comment on abortion?
I think you guys are taking the words babies and children too literally. I don't think they're talking about actual children, but more along the lines of every soldier that gets killed in a war was somebody's "baby", somebody's "child". Also the line about "kill the unborn in the womb" isn't talking about killing an actual child, but destroying an enemy before they are able to launch their attack, or become a more dangerous threat.
Tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.. reference to the fact that government's spending millions and millions of $$$ on new and advanced weaponry rather than spending that money to eleviate the hunger, starvation and poverty that exists in today's world!!!
I'm sorry, I got through your interpretation of the first verse-y'all got a bunch wrong and missed a lot more. I wanted to like you, I did. Good luck on your CZcams path.
We don’t listen to hip hop. I don’t think we are wrong. This our interpretation of the song after a first time listen. We aren’t using Wikipedia or internet to look it up. Feel free to leave your own interpretation down below, we’d love to hear it.
I don't need to give you my interpretation because I understand Metallica's songs fine. I've Never felt the need to "Analyze" the "shizzle" out of a song. Metal music shouldn't be picked apart like the way you 2 do it. Metal bands incl. Metallica paint a very good picture to the listener of exactly what they're trying to convey. Personally I "feel" & "Hear" the music & that's all I require.
It’s a song about war, based on the Doomsday Clock, a clock set by scientists in the 80’s, set at 2 Minutes To Midnight, to signify how close we always are to a nuclear war. The songs lyrics are mostly metaphors for war and the horrors of the killing in war.
\m/ Stay Metal \m/
Doomsday clock was invented in the 50's or late 40's, via world war 2.
Yep.. and now it's down to 30 seconds. There is about a 99% chance that within 50 years climate change is going to have a massive effect on agriculture. There is already completely unheard of drought in africa, the mid east and s.america. in northern countries like the u.s. and russia.. you actually NEED freezing cold for the wheat to mature. And in China they are out of water in their grain growing region.. literally 100 lakes and thousands of wells have dried up. There is very little doubt this will cause crop collapses very soon... and starving people migrate and fight for food.
The song isn't a celebration. It's an accusation.
to the powers that be that want to destroy us all?
it was a.real threat
You guys are getting this song so much now that you’re analyzing the lyrics. I love how you do a lyric review also.
I remember when I 1st heard it when it came out and actually thought the “to kill the unborn in the womb” was about abortion and it bothered me so much until my friends and I sat down and read the lyrics in context. We realized it was not about abortion, and that using that line causes people to react like you 2 did. You got to shake people really bad if you want end the war and killing. Now 35 years later the world is the same. A few people start these wars and make money and get power And how easily and happily they do it.
"Don`t you pray for my soul anymore". It is not a question, it is an imperative.
Just cutting and pasting Wikipedia: A protest song about nuclear war, "2 Minutes to Midnight" was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson.
The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight in the 20th Century, when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. The atomic clock, set at 12 minutes to midnight in 1972, regressed thereafter among US-Soviet tensions, reaching three minutes to midnight in 1984 - the year this track was released - and at that time the most dangerous clock reading since 1953. According to Dickinson, the song critically addresses "the romance of war" in general rather than the Cold War in particular.
Well said Steve!
There is a strong focus on the political and capitalist elite that perpetuate war.
The war industry in a world of perpetual war is the golden goose.
It is a criticism of all war, and the ones who lobby to make money from war.
They sing about the Vietnam war for example.
Lyrics in Metal work a lot with metaphors, with comparisons and visual language. One must not always take everything literally but sometimes think around the corner to understand the meaning behind it.
You two have done a real great job here.
Edit: The Song is about the Doomsday Clock ;-)
It is about the weapons industry.
How politicians and war industry work to make each other rich and powerful trough a cycle of war.
Hence stuff like "The golden goose is on the lose and never out of season" and "The fortune, the glory, the pain".
How capitalism plays the role of perpetuating war.
The capitalists manipulates politicians.
The politicians then manipulates the people in to supporting the capitalists.
The ones who own/run this world has far more power over us than we have over them.
Because we let them.
It's actually a protest song about nuclear war,.the song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe at midnight. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight in the 20th Century.
"To the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun "....... $94 Million on food banks and social housing OR $94 million on a new F35 fighter jet.... Ooooh look at our shiny new jet !!
Not millions; milliards - not a word at all in American English, but in Britain (and most countries, actually) it means 1,000,000,000 which is the American "billion". The British definition of a billion is "a million squared".
@@asbjrnfossmo1589 shhhh! Don't educate them!
I'm an ex roadie for maiden and a lot of songs around this time was based on war this one is no exception its prmarilly about the second world war and the hipocrocy of war and the military in general
Big Daddi what’s your name? I’ve met a lot of Maidens roadies since the 80’s.Hardcore fan here
yes the glamours of war.
As someone that is a contemporary of the guys in Iron Maiden (and a big fan) we are sort of a bit of a lost generation we are NOT baby boomers, we are not gen-X-er's. In other words we came of age in the 80's, were just starting high school when Regan was elected the first time, we grew up in elementary school watching the public service films about what happens when we get hit with some Russian Nukes. Etc etc etc... this song evokes the feeling many of us had of being to resigned to the end-game and strange feeling shared by my generation that all of the lies and incomprehensible conditioning we had about "the enemy, the evil empire" were reflected right back on us by an equal and opposite thought process on the other side of it.
We understood the shear insanity of all of it, the inhumanity and evil, but also understood we were all marching down this path with not a lot of "better solution". Think of this song (and many others of the era) as an imagining of being part of the end game of it... a full scale nuclear exchange, mass destruction and murder with the survivors being trotted out, handed some weapons and gear to finish this once and for all bullet to bullet, tactical nuke to tactical nuke, bayonet to bayonet just to be the last "civilization/ideology" standing... win or lose trying desperately not to "lose" OR... be one of those on either side that are just sifting through the rubble getting ground up one way or another (jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you)
You get the idea. Really hard to grasp if you didn't grow up and enter adulthood during the Cold War. Trust me when the USSR went away and the Cold War ended my generation pretty much lost a bunch of built in anxiety and aren't too fearful of the threats of today relatively speaking.
Tasha hit the nail on the head when she say, don’t go to war at all, that where very meaningful for me, the all ways passéfist, really hate what men are capable of coming to find new “better” ways hurt, maim and kill echoer, so sad some are thinking like that
You're kidding right? If you're shocked by these lyrics, you're taking them too literal. Maiden is deeper than you're giving them credit for.
I think maiden wants people to feel shock. That want your attention because they are angry about our war obsessed countries and they want people to see the evil of the war profiteers and people in power. You want to change things you have shock people to get them to pay attention. 1 of the lines even mentions “the blind man”. The blind men are the majority of America and England to name a few. Blind men go along with all of this. So is Maiden trying to shock people with these lyrics? HELL YES they are!
Roger Welsh they’re like New Historicism with figurative language. I tend to think about nuclear war when I hear this song, and a nuclear blast can literally burst your eye balls. You’re right to see that it’s about these leaders who are blind with their pride, and see prayer as beneath them, hence when they declare: don’t you pray for our souls. These leaders are blind in hubris, and then blinded by their self destructive desire to dominate for the sake of it. This is just a modern reinterpretation of Oedipus Rex, who’s hubris blinds him to the reality that he has killed his father, married his mother, damned his city, doomed his children and his soul. Oedipus’ is a mockery of destiny, just like nuclear warfare is a mockery of civilization.
Relax. The majority of the people who listen to actual metal won't understand the message until they listen to them multiple times.
I must be getting hella old, I just assumed everyone understood 2 minutes to midnight as the doomsday clock 😳 but the way, it’s 1 min to midnight as of January 23rd
"...and the jellied brains of those who remain..." - this is a reference to those who got shell shocked by explosions, I believe. Back in the late 90's, I was living next door to an older gentlemen who's head was *still* screwed up from WW2. He had been too close to the bombardments and he was never right again. The man was not crazy, but he was not all *there*.
That and the insanity of the survivors who have to live with the horrors of a burning nuclear wasteland.
WW2 was hard on the young men who served. My farther served, he did about 8 months in the guard then activated . He went to train at Hell and blood training camp with his cousin Silas, Si went to Pacific to visit Japan. My dad went to Africa, the Middle East, then Europe where he and his Easy Company brothers fought the Natzies,, Germans the rest of war.the band of brothers they were co C 255 . I have his records . Active 5yrs 1 month. Yell it fucked that young man up. 90% of those great young men had never been over 200 miles from home. Dads two brothers and all his cousins went! Not all came home! I was just a little boy and remember him waking up screaming. Then spend rest of nite asking for forgiveness! These band of brothers took the lick for the rest of us! God bless them. God took my dad when I was 8 yrs old. I miss that gentle man still today 53 yrs later!🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
We need never forget🍀🍀🍀🍀
Co. E 255 I ment to type . They called them the 255 easy co band of brothers! Yes I’m proud of my dad. That war finally killed him 1966 November after over 20 yrs of morning the losses !god bless them boys🍀
Shell-Shock -PTSD.
Old men start war - young men (babies) fight them. War is hell on earth. I'm a 49 year old, battle-tested headbanger and the lyrics shocked all of us Maiden fans the first time we heard them. But the lyrics are meant to scare the hell out of us. "To the tune of starving millions..." lyric is a scathing indictment of the world's leaders engaging in an arms race while millions of people in this world starve everyday.
Ok so 2 minutes to midnight is a reference to the infamous doomsday clock, where the closer the hands of the clock get to midnight, the closer humanity gets to destroying itself.
This is a war protest song.
The golden goose refers to the goose from the fairy tale that laid golden eggs and was fought over so whoever possessed it would gain wealth. As a simile for the prize of war, this golden goose is never out of season, so politicians in charge of nations can go to war at any time for any chosen fairy tale prize.
Killing the unborn in the womb is a reference to killing off future generations if we ever reach midnight and destroy ourselves in a nuclear war.
Oiling the jaws of the war machine and feeding it with our babies refers to the political leaders spinning their reasons for war in the media, getting the nation on side to back the war, and thus support it with our labour and industry, but then also send our own sons and daughters off to fight and die in the war we supported.
Iron maiden seems to be very antiwar and anti violence in most of their music. BTW, Maiden is one of my favorite bands. I was a teen listening to this in the eighties so yes I AM OLD now, lol. Another song, this one by Ozzy, is "Killer of Giants" that is in the same vein. But Graham's analysis of this song is spot on.
The song is a protest on the romance and commercialization of war and the nuclear buildup. The "unborn in the womb" refers to nuclear missles in their silos. "Midnight refers to nuclear war and we are now much closer than 2 minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock.
The song is about the Cold War conflict between USA and USSR, which in many times almost started a nuclear war, especially in the 80's.
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Its about wwII the storming of Normandy Beach....
If you don't feel your heart shrink down into a rock in fear of what they're describing here, on that day... then, man, I just don't know. Iron Maiden is not glorifying war. They're telling us about a moment, from the hardest place, and we should consider what that means. It breaks the heart, even just reading the title.
Your reaction videos and lyric videos are so good. It’s a joy to see people discovering Maiden, and really brings me back. I always get a few Jeopardy questions every week based on things I’ve learned from Iron Maiden songs.
Ha! Jeopardy is my wife's favorite show! Now we have to listen to more maiden
Two minutes to midnight is also commonly referred to as the witching hour which in old times of superstition was the time in which the gates of hell would briefly open to release demons and creatures of evil to reign terror and chaos upon people.
I think the first line is something about the kind of round nations are "allowed" to use in war against each other, rounds designed to maim rather than kill. For example a FMJ vs a hollow point.
Love you guys, you guys are intelligent. The ability to think, question and decipher things are things that we must teach to all children. Makes me so happy to see you guys understand the true message of old school metal.
Definitely an anti Military Industrial Complex song!
War is very very profitable for a lot of people! Let’s start with Oil first, then land, power, resources, etc.
Y’all are the cutest couple. Love your videos keep up the good work. 👍
You must imagine you are a soldier that has lost and seen loss, at home & afar, when you sing this song.
A great anti war song. It's critical of the various reasons given for wars and the "mad men" who lie to us. First heard this over 30 years ago, and it's making more and more sense, over the intervening years.
"2 minutes to midnight To kill the unborn in the womb" to me represents that if the Doomsday Clock strikes midnight, it is the end of all humanity (WWIII, nuclear Armageddon, etc.) thus "killing the unborn in the womb" or put another way, killing all future generations of humanity before they are created/born. I still get chills every time I hear this song. For those of us that grew up during the height of the Cold War, it seemed like the world could fall into nuclear war at any time. I still remember having drills in school where they'd sound an alarm (similar to the fire alarm) and we'd all have to fall to the floor and hide under our desks. I'm getting the shivers just remembering that. Anyway, just my two cents. Love y'all!
A protest song about nuclear war, "2 Minutes to Midnight" was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson.
The song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight in the 20th Century, when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. The atomic clock, set at 12 minutes to midnight in 1972, regressed thereafter among US-Soviet tensions, reaching three minutes to midnight in 1984 - the year this track was released - and at that time the most dangerous clock reading since 1953.
According to Dickinson, the song critically addresses "the romance of war" in general rather than the Cold War in particular.
Everyone has said this already, but the song is based on the idea of the Doomsday Clock. The idea is politicians (madmen) send our Children (drafted soldiers in WWII) to war. Basically an anti war song typical in the 70’s and 80’s rock scene
The Doomsday Clock was set at 2 Minutes to Midnight in 1953 in response to America testing a Hydrogen bomb. It never came that close to midnight again until 2018. Right now it is set at 1 minute 40 seconds to midnight.
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Its a protest song about nuclear war...the doomsday clock reached 2 minutes to midnight...close as its ever been
Hey I love yur reactions.., and I’ve had this song described to me as it’s talking about wars throughout history... also I’ve been told that it’s about the Vietnam War...and napalm is a flammable gel like substance that was used a lot in the Vietnam War and Korea. It covers the corruption in governments and war
It's about the nuclear war and the jellied brains of veterans. War is the golden goose that's never out of season. Watch the video in the video the purpose is clearer. Before we had a color code system for national emergency alert level we had a clock and midnight was nuclear war. When we came closest to war it was 2 minutes to midnight. It's hard to interpret without context I'd love to see your reaction to the video now that you know the lyrics I bet it will change the song for you.
Other lyrics such as 'Children torn in two' and 'Kill the unborn in the womb' refer to the atrocities often committed in war...
Time - Pink Floyd. You need to also do a lyrical breakdown.. One of the greatest songs EVER written!!! The song speaks about how we waste time in our youth, chase it as we realize what we missed out on, then grow old filled with regret. The older we get, the more powerful this song becomes. Oh yeah, and it's a bona fide masterpiece..
Check out the Iron Maiden song Brighter than a Thousand Suns from the 2006 recording "A Matter of Life and Death " it's about the Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima that ended WWII
Very graphic video.
Great song.
The song is in reference to the doomsday clock during the cold war. The doomsday clock was developed in a case of a human made global catastrophe (during that time period nukes could have been fired at any time on both sides). Killing the unborn in the womb is basically the doomsday clock striking midnight where the world has been completely destroyed by nukes and nobody survives. Even those that are yet to be born.
It's basically based on the album cover that you show throughout your video, take a closer look and you'll see most of the Arab nations flags as well as the American and partially covered up British flag flying infront of the mushroom cloud. This song represent's the western world's invasion of the Middle East for their oil reserves and the sacrifice of our unknowing brainwashed youth who fought and died to aquire that piece of the map for our government's.
Anything in this song that mention's the word black or oil or any other connuctation of the world is a hint of the war for oil
Fear of nuclear war. It was a major anxiety in the 80s with the cold war between Russia and America. Someone had to sing hard about it.
I've always taken the song to be about the Vietnam war. "Blood is Freedom's stain" is about the American war machine. Lied to by leader talking about "freedom" when the war is actually about making profits for military contractors and oil companies that donate to both democrats and republicans.
Blood is freedom stained is the inverse of the popular line “freedom is blood stained”
Love all your reactions TNT nice to see you reacting with your wife . The song references a doomsday clock, the symbolic clock used buy the Bulletin of the atomic scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe .
Napalm was a favorite in the Vietnam war, and with other lyrics, it could be about vietnam
Most times when I watch, I'm tipsy/fudup. Makes sense to me... peace...
Its about humans penchant for war, the nuclear clock, how close we are to armageddon by nuclear war
it was close. closer now 🤔 many nuckear threats
Haha love for you to try and break down PRIMUS - Frizzle Fry... especially “I do believe in Cap‘n Crunch” part 😂🤣😅
We are never out of war
I saw references for the 2 of you to do the song “The Clansman”. PLEASE NOTE ...THE SONG IS NOT ABOUT THE KKK!!
people make this assumption when they see the title. So don’t shy away from playing this song.
Most Iron Maiden Songs have powerful lyrics if you break them down.
The point is i like your channel keep up the good work.
I think this is one of the greatest anti-war songs. Its raw and holds no punches. It points at war mongers and profiteers, but also all of us for going along with and enabling it. We all share some burden for the innocents lost in war, our children and the suffering it causes. Spending billions on the ability to kill people at the expense of humanity.
go to bing and look up the doomsday clock
The song is about the military industrial complex...... 2 minutes to midnight refers to the doomsday clock
To kill the unborn in the womb...they're saying that in war, civilians are casualties...and women who are with child are sometimes killed...its a song about the attrocities of war.
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The reasons for the carnage to me represent the politicians/officials sitting back and watching the chaos unfold and profitting from the spoils of war while people's children are sent off to war and potentially never seen again (we oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies).
This could be about corrupt politics
Maybe watch the official video also, it's hard to put together a song with just hearing symbolism and catch phrases, can't take it literally,it just wouldn't make sense, title entails the doomsday clock,song is about war and the people who start and those who fight them!!!✌️🇺🇸
your missus seems like an awesome chick
the whole song is about war and the dooms day clock.
However I also agree with what William Coyle said
I was a kid of 12 when i first heard lt was thinking of romanov family and Rasputin, but i was wrong
If you don't get it don't listen to it
How would you know to get it, if you don't listen to it?
The song is protest about nuclear war and it references the "Doomsday clock" a refence used by "the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist", which represents a countdown to nuclear global catastrophe. During the cold war in September 1953 the clock reached ( Two Minutes) to midnight, the closest the world have got to Armageddon . Its also it again 1984 when it reached 3 minutes to midnight. The song also critically addresses "the romance of war" and the to kill the unborn in the womb is refencing that young men and women Soldier die in war and most of then as young as 16 years old making them in the sense of the ward babies.
Check the flags on the cover song and check whats happening in those countries now.
run to the hills shows the way that both sides felt the conflict between the english and the indians. it does promote anything. it mostly show how bad the english/americans were.
It's an anti war song, written by Adrian Smith. Think Metallica's "One." But for the 80's
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The mad man is referring to Hitler primaily but it could be put to any warmonger that has been or possibly could be the children torn in 2 and killed in the womb is mostly about the way the Nazis killed people no matter what age and pregnant women tortured raped and killed during that time, the jellied brains is about Hitler's senior officers and how he had them convinced that what they where doing was the right thing to do
When I get out of the song like when they say go to war again that's ww2 and Fead German war machine with our babys just cuz the guys 21 and fighting don't mean he ant his mom's baby. And the doomsday clock if it ever reaches midnight we're done nuclear hollicost I think one time during the Cold war it actually got to two minutes to midnight. The scientist uses this clock to show how close we are to nuclear Holocaust
If you’re going to review the need to understand is everything. If this is your interpretations the track then fair enough. “Don’t you pray for my soul anymore.” Is not a question. This is glorifying war and the reasons for war. By protesting as strongly as possible against it.
So way off breakdown. lol entertaining though....
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Has the band ever said anything about the line "to kill the unborn in the womb"? I don't see how that's not a reference to abortion and I'm not even hardcore pro life? Seems like they would've worded things differently if it wasn't a comment on abortion?
first you shave your arm pits, now your drinking out of a straw..come on bro...lol
Lol, dude, I shaved my balls. have sensitive teeth!
Saw them live and ghost opened for them but not a fan of ghost
I think you guys are taking the words babies and children too literally. I don't think they're talking about actual children, but more along the lines of every soldier that gets killed in a war was somebody's "baby", somebody's "child". Also the line about "kill the unborn in the womb" isn't talking about killing an actual child, but destroying an enemy before they are able to launch their attack, or become a more dangerous threat.
I think my wife mentions everything you just said.
Example sadam husein was the golden goose = oil $$$$
Tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.. reference to the fact that government's spending millions and millions of $$$ on new and advanced weaponry rather than spending that money to eleviate the hunger, starvation and poverty that exists in today's world!!!
I'm sorry, I got through your interpretation of the first verse-y'all got a bunch wrong and missed a lot more. I wanted to like you, I did. Good luck on your CZcams path.
Hahahahaha….. We completely butchered this interpretation. Hahahahaha…… sorry this was the one you found. Lol, I can’t even get myself to re watch it.
Kill for gain... usually to gain oil these days...
It's about Satanists favourite things on this earth!
Doomsday clock.
don't you hate it when songs are smarter than you?
Stick to your guys hip-hop street shit Music because you got the interpretation Wrong! Being "Backsliders" I'm not surprised how wrong you guys are.
We don’t listen to hip hop. I don’t think we are wrong. This our interpretation of the song after a first time listen. We aren’t using Wikipedia or internet to look it up. Feel free to leave your own interpretation down below, we’d love to hear it.
I don't need to give you my interpretation because I understand Metallica's songs fine. I've Never felt the need to "Analyze" the "shizzle" out of a song. Metal music shouldn't be picked apart like the way you 2 do it. Metal bands incl. Metallica paint a very good picture to the listener of exactly what they're trying to convey. Personally I "feel" & "Hear" the music & that's all I require.
Depopulation