Deus in Absentia
Meliora
2015
Duration: 5:37
Track number: 10
Times played live: 21
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
The album's official closing track and the conceptual anchor of Meliora—'Deus in Absentia' (God in Absence) directly states the album's central theme. Opening with a Scandinavian tango before erupting into chants of 'the world is on fire,' the track functions as the soundtrack to catastrophic collapse. It's the sound of the world's final exhale, depicting the apocalyptic endpoint of a civilization abandoned by divinity.
Lyrics
Ain't this your time of need?
You're turning to the light
You have just begun to explore the dark
In the urban night
The world is on fire
And you are here to stay and burn with me
A funeral pyre
And we are here to revel forevermore
You're so goddamn frail
Failing for a change
You just had to know all about the world
But you will never know
'Cause no one ever told you how
The world is on fire
And you are here to stay and burn with me
A funeral pyre
And we are here to revel forever
The world is on fire
And we are tied as one eternally
A funeral pyre
And we are here to revel forevermore
Deus, Deus
All of your imaginations
Are now running down your face
All of your imaginations
Are now running down your face
Oh you are looking good
Payback in disgrace
And you're doing fine worshipping your lord
Standing in his grave
'Cause no one ever told you how
The world is on fire
And you are here to stay and burn with me
A funeral pyre
And we are here to revel forever
The world is on fire
And we are tied as one eternally
A funeral pyre
And we are here to revel forevermore
Deus, Deus
Musicians
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