Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

Album: A Matter Of Life And Death (2006)
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  • We are not the sons of God
    We are not his chosen people now
    We have crossed the path he trod
    We will feel the pain of his beginning

    Shadow fingers rise above
    Iron fingers stab the desert sky
    Oh, behold the power of man
    On its tower, ready for the fall

    Knocking heads together well
    Raze a city, build a living Hell
    Join the race to suicide
    Listen for the tolling of the bell

    Out of the the universe
    A strange love is born
    Unholy union
    Trinity reformed

    Yellow sun, its evil twin
    In the black the winds deliver him
    We will sleep to souls within
    Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven

    Out of the the universe
    A strange love is born
    Unholy union
    Trinity reformed

    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousand suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousand suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousand suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousand suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousand suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousand suns

    Burying our morals and burying our dead
    Burying our head in the sand
    E equals MC squared, you can't relate
    How we made God with our hands

    Whatever would Robert have said to his God
    'Bout how he made war with the Sun?
    E equals MC squared, you can't relate
    How we made God with our hands

    All nations are rising
    Through acid bells of love and hate
    Chain letters of Satan
    Uncertainty led us all to this
    All nations are rising
    Through acid veils of love and hate
    Cold fusion of fury

    Divide and conquer while ye may
    Others preach and others fall and pray
    In the bunkers where we'll die
    We're the executioners, they lie

    Bombers launched with no recall
    Minute warning of the missile fall
    Take a look at your last day
    Guessing you won't have the time to cry

    Out of the the universe
    A strange love is born
    Unholy union
    Trinity reformed

    Out of the darkness
    Out of the darkness
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousands suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousands suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousands suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousands suns
    Out of the darkness, brighter than a thousands suns

    Holy Father, we have sinned Writer/s: Adrian Frederick Smith, Bruce Dickinson, Stephen Percy Harris
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Pete from Olympus Mons, AustraliaBrighter Than A Thousand Suns is also the name of the book written in 1958 about the Manhattan Project, and also the parallel German research. 'Trinity' was the name the Americans gave to the test bomb, which rattled windows at 200 miles away, and left the sand underneath crystallised into a glass that was dubbed Trinitite.
  • Caitlin from Colmesneil, TxMy favorite part is towards the end when it gets slow and he says "in the bunkers where we'll die...".
  • Damien from Edmonton, CanadaMy absolute most favorite song off of AMOLAD. AMOLAD is a very awesome album too! My favorite part of this song is the part where it gets all fast in the middle, that sticks with me.
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