Lamb of God: Ruin Meaning

Song Released: 2003

Ruin Lyrics

The knowledge that seeking the favor of another
Means the murder of self.
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away.
Silence speeds the path to the streams of solace that run so few and...

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   anonymous

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   Oct 20th 2007 !⃝

   This song is about the "ruin" of mankind. Instead of progressing, evolving, and becoming greater, mankind is mastering only traits such as "Fear. Pain. Hatred. Powerrr," which is in a sense an "art of ruin." Due to war, famine, and all the problems and corruption that exist in our world, we are living in a time of Ruin. All compassion and comfort is gone in the line, "Silence speeds the path to the streams of solace that run so few and narrow./Brooks that babble the sounds of torture." Solace is another word for comfort, so it's saying there is little comfort in our world. Typical things that we find comforting, such as brooks in nature are shown to "babble the sounds of torture," showing that we cannot find peace anywhere.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2022 !⃝

   it’s just another silly love song by a hard-boiled poet became soft scrambled outstripped and no friends indulge his melodrama recognition requires experience head nod and the band’s name
3. anonymous

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   Mar 11th 2017 !⃝

   The song could be interpreted differently when looked at from a personal point of view as opposed to a societal one.
   
   The knowledge that seeking the favor of another
   Means the murder of self.
   This is the resolution
   The end of all progress
   The death of evolution
   It bleeds all life away.
   
   Spiritual growth, the growth of the self ceases when life is about seeking the favor of peers above one's own needs. It is the end of all progress as a human being in regards to personal growth. It is the death of the individuals ability to evolve into something better, and leaves room only for devolution. "It bleeds all life away" isn't so much life itself in terms of a living creature, but the reason for living and being alive.
   
   Silence speeds the path to the streams of solace that run so few and narrow- Meditation? Reflection? Times of solitude to understand one's self?
   
   Brooks that babble the sounds of torture- Most of what we hear in daily life via media forms is poisonous for the growth of a healthy mind! Radio, television are geared towards creating never ending anxiety.
   
   You will one day rise
   To flood the banks of the chosen- reaching enlightenment? Self actualization?
   
   "This is the art of ruin" always refers to seeking the favor of another, it is the art of destroying yourself internally for external acceptance.
   
   Fear, pain, hatred, power are all means of obtaining acceptance and control, which are also mankind's most commonly used tools. "I will show you all that I have mastered" speaking as humanity as a whole.
4. anonymous

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   Mar 19th 2011 !⃝

   Randy Blythe himself said that the song is about what it feels like to not have any solace or any comfort when the world is hostile to you.
5. MagnusCaligula

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   Jul 4th 2009 !⃝

   The knowledge that seeking the favor of another
   Means the murder of self.
   Knowing that the notion of Nobility, the virtue of self sacrifice; only results in a person wasting their life for someone else
   
   
   This is the resolution
   The end of all progress
   The death of evolution
   Despite centuries worth of advancement we have only learnt to ultimately ruin ourselves.
   
   
   I will show you all that I have mastered
   Fear. Pain. Hatred. Power.
   This is the art of ruin
   
   And despite all of humanity’s technological and sociological advances we have on digressed further into barbarism.
6. Lambofgodfan

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   Nov 11th 2006 !⃝

   Its hard to put an exact meaning on this song . Some say it's about the end of the world , mankind destroying themselves with greed .
   
   "the end of all progress" possibly meaning humanity going nowhere .
   "the death of evolution " all life stopping and going nowhere
   
   others have argued that those same 2 lines are actually sacreligous or antireligous lines . Plus because of other things said in the song . It depends what you make of it really

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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