Avenged Sevenfold: Beast and the Harlot Meaning

Song Released: 2006

Beast and the Harlot Lyrics

This shining city built of gold, a far cry from innocence,
There's more than meets the eye round here, look to the waters of the deep.
A city of evil.
There sat a seven-headed beast, ten horns raised from his head.
Symbolic woman sits on his...

1. Deckard88

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   Apr 12th 2007 !⃝

   It's obvious, unless if you're a Jew.
2. anonymous

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   Mar 26th 2007 !⃝

   Y'all are prettymuch dumb all this came straight out of the bible, maybe if you would read it.

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3. masivefiend

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   Mar 26th 2007 !⃝

   The song is about getting sucked in to hallywood....the band keeps it real...trying not to drown in fame.

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4. St.J

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   Feb 27th 2007 !⃝

   I hear this has lyrics from ancient scripture stuff and it's about an evil harlot (Prostitute) doing stuff. yea I know what it means but its hard to put into words :P. lmao.

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5. anonymous

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   Feb 26th 2007 !⃝

   Well I have read articles on Avengened and the band says that they are not trying to "lead" people in any direction as far as religion goes they want people to keep their minds open to whatever but when I listen to their music and I come from a "hardcore" christian family but I've alwase been open minded but still myself I am a christian but when I am listing to the bands music it seems to me like a lot of their lyrics are comeing from or are in a sense biblical I love talking about religions and peoples thoughts on life and music is a very big part of my life so if any one has any feed back or likes to talk about these sorts of things the email me is spidermonkeyisfunny@yahoo.com thanx keep on listing to A7x no matter what their lyrics really mean they are still a great band and I will listen to them no matter what
6. anonymous

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   Dec 17th 2006 !⃝

   yeah just about every word in this song is in Revalations (the last book in the bible) if you read it you can see. all they did was paraphrase it
7. anonymous

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   Nov 16th 2006 !⃝

   the person earlier did a pretty good interpretation. The only thing is that the harlot from revelations actually represents all false religion. and she's the one who has been fornicating with the kings. I mean c'mon think about it, any war you can think of has been backed by certain "christian" religions. So that's what it means by the fornicating with the kings. and when it says "the poisoned wine" its talking about how in the bible it speaks of the harlot being "drunk on the blood of the holy ones" so along with fornicating with the kings this harlot is also persecuting true christians. but the bible also says that the beast (present day governments) will turn on the harlot, so she will no longer be riding the beast and it will leave her naked. when that happens its one of the very last signs of the times. but when the beast tries to turn on the one last true religion, the one that never fornicated with the beast by participating in its wars and things, then the end will come. revelations really is an interesting book. Its one of the few books in the bible that speaks specifically about the times we live in. actually if you wanted to discuss the meaning of revelations email me at kevinlgjr@hotmail.com. or you could go to the kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses. Theyre about to start a book called revelation: its grand climax at hand.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 16th 2006 !⃝

   Obviously the song is about the harlot causing all the men in the city to sin, ot the point where there is no room left for any more evil, and so the beast (satan) decides to destroy the city, and take all the sinners in as minions in hell. Thus "if you're not a servant, you'll be struck to the ground."

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9. anonymous

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   Nov 10th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about sin, yes taken from the bible, but if you listen, it is about a women who is sinning left and right, and the end has come, but she is not going anywhere, if you see the video, you will see all seven deadly sins! http://a7xfansite.tripod.com

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10. anonymous

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    Oct 26th 2006 !⃝

    Well I think it's possible that it also came from the bible and it's about how when satan will come and take over the earth."a city of evil" which refers to satan.
    
    Correct me if I'm wrong =)
    "no one wants to go to hell and you made the wrong decision and it' easy to see"
    possibly that someone had made a bad mistake and did the wrong thing or he could be on drugs and he will be going to hell for waht he had done.
    =)

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11. anonymous

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    Oct 16th 2006 !⃝

    I think that the song could be from the bible. Babylon is in the bible. What leads me to believe it's from the bible is that the lyrics say " fallen now is babylon the great"
    
    
    macayla
12. anonymous

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    Oct 8th 2006 !⃝

    Its about the end of the earth in that one verse from the bible.
13. anonymous

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    Aug 11th 2006 !⃝

    The song is describing an ancient city but it also conjures visions of las vegas. Sin city has a very large influence on their videos and on the band as well
14. anonymous

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    Aug 9th 2006 !⃝

    It is very likely that this song was taken from a verse of the bible. The name avenged sevenfold is from the book of genisis and is about the story of cain and able the song "chapter four" is about this storey and I belive the beast and the harlot is about the punishment of babaloyn from the book of revelations I am almost positive but feel free to correct me if I have made any mistakes.
    
    Zach
15. redwings1913

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    Jul 16th 2006 !⃝

    I'm not exactly sure where it is, but I was told by a friend(who is obsessed with this band to an unhealthy degree) that the lyrics from this song are taken almost directly from the christian Bible. I have no idea whether this is true or not but it certainly sounds possible.

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