The festivities are disrupted when a hand appears and begins to write on a wall, which prompts Belshazzar to call upon his wise men to decipher the text. In celebration of the destruction of the First Temple, Belshazzar, a Babylonian prince and son of King Nebuchadnezzar hosts an extravagant feast for a thousand of his lords. It is also the origin of the everyday phrase about seeing the writing on the wall, meaning a certain event is imminent and should be obvious to an observer. It all began with promotional flyers touting 'Belshazzar's Feast,' which is the story of the writing on the wall from chapter five in the Book of Daniel in the Bible. Here is the history surrounding the song title's meaning. The earthquake is a coming, but you don't want to hearĬan you see them riding, riding next to you? On a trail of dust and ashes, when the burning sky is doneĪ tide of change is coming and that is what you fear Ignorance our judge and jury all we've got to showįrom Hollywood to Babylon, holy war to kingdom come Holding on to fury, is that all we ever know? Now we are victorious, we've become our slavesĪ land of hope and glory, building graveyards for the brave The dead gave us the time to live and now our time is done Once our empires glorious but now the empire's gone Across a painted desert lies a train of vagabondsĪll that's left of what we were, it's what we have become
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