30 Seconds To Mars - Kings And Queens Lyrics Meaning

anonymous
Apr 26th, 2011 4:32am

Your analysis make a lot of sense when you apply it, not to fallen angels, but to mankind.

Into the night
Desperate and broken
The sound of a fight
Father has spoken

God kicked Adam and Eve (mankind) out of the garden (the only thing that they had ever known) into the rest of the earth.
When they eat the fruit they went from a state of being spiritually alive to being spiritually dead. When they ate the fruit the were separated from God (separated from his life and his light, apart from which is only darkness)

In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:4‭-‬5 KJV

"The sound of a fight" could simply mean the war that had begun to rage between satan and God.

"Father has spoken" is simple to understand it could refer to the command to leave the garden or the broken commandment of not eating the fruit.

We were the kings and queens of promise We were the victims of
ourselves Maybe the children of a lesser god Between Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell

Mankind was in fact the kings and queens of promise. And angels were not and are not kings and queens, and they were not given any kind of promise.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26‭-‬28 KJV

"We were the victims of ourselves" they took the fruit and ate it, Eve because she desired the knowledge that she heard that it would give her, Adam for no stated reason in the scriptures other than he listened to Eve, and ate it because she wanted him to.

"Maybe the children of a lesser god Between Heaven and Hell Heaven and Hell"
Those who do not believe in Christ are children of satan (a lesser god); and depending on what you take hell to mean (the grave[which is also referred to as the bowels of the earth] or the lake of fire[the second death]), and what you consider Heaven to be (the sky, or the throne of God), man (while he is alive) is literally between Heaven and Hell (the bowels of the earth and the sky, the grave and the throne of God), and man is required to choose a destination between the two while he yet lives (in the body).

Into your eyes
Hopeless and taken
We stole our new lives
Through blood and pain
In defense of our dreams
In defense of our dreams

"We stole our new lives" this is the part where your analysis kinda breaks down Adam and Eve stole their new lives literally by stealing the fruit and eating it. Demons don't steal souls, they have no need to for any reason. What satan did steal was mankind's authority by causing him to fall but the live of darkness they didn't steal they attempted to steal God's throne and failed.

As for the rest of it (this also goes along with the line "Father has spoken) God spoke curses over Mankind

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 3:16‭-‬19 KJV

There is also the fact that relatively shortly after mankind fell, man began to kill each other.

However I'm of the opinion that "through blood and pain in defense of our dreams" is a reference to the necessity of the shedding of blood for the redemption of sin, and that the dreams is the ultimate redemption (the sacrifice of Christ) which mankind had to look forward to (when you take the meaning of the Hebrew names of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah you get a sentence that foretell of Christ coming and teaching that his death will bring rest/comfort to mankind).

The age of man is over
A darkness comes and all
These lessons that we learned here Have only just begun

"The age of man is over"
Mankind has fallen.
"A darkness comes and all"
Darkness is a representative of many things, demons, sin, the death (or perishing) of mankind (hatred, fear, lack, madness[insanity] that is in the world today).

"These lessons that we learned here Have only just begun"
Mankind is just starting to learn about God, the knowledge of God is a progressive never ending knowledge that will not be fully learned until after Christ returns (I'd say until after the new Heaven and the new earth are made).

We were the Kings and Queens of promise
We were the victims of ourselves
We are the kings
We are the queens
We are the kings
We are the queens

At our creation we were the kings and queens of promise. Now in Christ we are the kings and queens.

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:5‭-‬6 KJV

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter 2:9 KJV