Album: Avenged Sevenfold (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song describes the history of war and how we still pursue the same thing and kill each other to this day. Lead singer M. Shadows describes how we're lost in the sense that we still haven't found out that war and killing each other doesn't fix anything.
  • The song is part of the group's fourth album, Avenged Sevenfold. They went out of their way to defy expectations on the album, so on this song they used Auto-Tune on Shadows' vocals in the bridge and chorus. That effect was all the rage in hip-hop at the time, and A7X thought it would be fun to experiment with it.

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