Linkin Park - The Catalyst Lyrics Meaning

Well....think about it.

"God bless us everyone,
We're a broken people living under loaded gun."

To go back to the obvious, its talking about war. Libya. I know, I know, it was before that, but take it into consideration. Civil war in general. Broken straight down the middle, the pendulum of power swing back and forth, back and forth. Under loaded gun. Under the overlaying threat that neither side will win, and everything- everyone -goes boom. Doesn't this need God's blessing?

"And it can't be outfought,
It can't be outrun,
It can't be outmatched,
It can't be outdone."

Can you outrun, outfight, outmatch, or outdo reality? I sure can't. Can you beat an idea? Beat an outcome that you've already brought upon yourself? Knock yourself out.

"Like memories in cold decay,
Transmissions echoing away,
Far from the world of you and I,
Where oceans bleed into the sky."

When all the textbooks are gone, all the teachers are drafted, where do you learn to outsmart am enemy? The past. Legends, wise sayings, parables, the like. Stuff your parents told you. Memories and transmissions long in stasis. Decaying in the bonds of eternity.

Travel into the unknown, beyond the normal, or even the strange. Where oceans bleed.

"God save us everyone,
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?
For the sins of our hands,
The sins of our tongue,
The sins of our father,
The sins of our young."

But nobody listened. God's blessing is long-gone. You need fate to intervene. You need a catalyst to turn it all around. You need a savior. Before everything burns. A thousand suns can't be extinguished by any force known to reality. The fire is the end. Bam. El fine. Gone. But who's to blame? You? Your ancestors? Your descendants? In reality, everyone. Making little compromises and cheating and back-stabbing. Take it further, you might just create a war. Not personally, obviously, but all as one. United in evil can only cause more evil. This song, despite being awesome, is a sign. A wake-up call. I ask you to listen.

And think about how lucky you are not to be on the verge of a holocaust.