“ASCENDANCY” SONG INTERPRETATIONS (BY MATTHEW K. HEAFY)
1. Rain.
Rain is a very personal track about the way I felt about life during a period where I spent much of my time alone - agonizing in anxiety and boredom, failed expectations and treachery from so many I confided in. It seemed like all the while that I was going through this, the whole world kept moving along, happy and content with itself. The last lines of the song are to the world's happiness personified- and all I wanted to do was to kill that happiness, choke out it's every last breath.
2. Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr.
Pull Harder is a look at a villainous tyrant; one who can simply kill and destroy on will, push his faith upon all, be hated by all other powers around - and still be loved by many that he rules.
3. Drowned and Torn Asunder.
Drowned can be applied to any macro or microcosm/ era or life. Speaking of micro- this can be about a child living entangled in their parents tyrannical ways; in macro terms- about a people living in a mind-controlled dictatorship. Either way this is an anthem to the rebellion of self-empowerment and breaking free.
4. Ascendancy.
I think the loss of innocence is a time when you realize how truly fucked up the world around you is. This album, as a whole, deals lyrically with many realizations based on this theme. “Ascendancy”, to me, means the overcoming of life's obstacles; to rise above everything that once held me down- and to realize and overcome the corruption of the world around me.
5. A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation.
It's a sad and sickening thought that some people live in fear of their own families. Whether spousal abuse, child abuse, neglect or sexual abuse- it's all tragic on a life threatening scale. Monsters will create monsters through their own actions. This song reflects the outright anger that I have for these people who think they can harm another in their own family.

6. Like Light to the Flies.
This song is about people's attraction to all forms of tragedy. It seems like everywhere you turn to today (e.g., television, newspaper, magazine, movies, etc.) it's all about murder, violence, war, cruelty- and it's because this is what sells; people are totally captivated by subjects in this vein. We are the flies.

7. Dying in Your Arms.
Being with someone can be like an addiction. Gradually, you can't stand to be without them, everything you once enjoyed- you no longer care about, you become weak and dependent. Like a heroin addiction - you think you can't live without it, but you're gradually dying inside and out. Break free.
8. The Deceived.
The idea of perfection and utopia brought about by a unified religion or any other system of life is a ludicrous impossibility. It is also a scary thought that people live their lives dependent entirely on upon the principles of a blind faith. It is in our right to break free of helpless conformity.
9. Suffocating Sight.
Instability, insecurity, and stress wrote this song. “Suffocating” is a look into my personal issues and peculiarities that I go though and recognize. The 'shore' and 'shipwrecked' lines were written at a time I was out by the ocean; 'shore' represents people, 'novel' represents songs and lyrics that I will write about my 'shipwrecked' (disturbed) self.
10. Departure.
Suicide is a thought that grazes the minds of many; and in any case, it isn't worth it. “Departure” is about every thought and emotion that myself and many have gone through. This song shows that you're not alone and that others have gone through the same and have overcome.
11. Declaration.
It's time to take action against those who are poisoning this world. The powers that be are telling us how to live our lives, trying to force feed us their fucked up morals. The truth is that "all men are created equal" "no matter race or creed or gender" and it is in the responsibility of the youth to take a stand against the hate that the dictators of this country are creating. Our country is teaching hate against other races thanks to a redneck retaliation agenda, our country is preaching hate against love between people because of their sex, our country is segregating itself in it's methods and it is time to break free. "Burn the scriptures, bury the governing, free yourself, break the structures, declare freedom."

"Borrowed" From
http://www.triviumworld.com/songmeanings.php

thank fuck this has finally been made, ive had a few people on MSN looking to send it to them and i never got round to making thread
good work 8)

Any chance on the song meanings for Ember to Inferno?

Awesome, I never thought of making one of these! Great idea.

Yeah i realized it when i was reading the explanations for the songs and found out how amazing they were.. I.E " Oh THATS what it's about... Rock On"
So i decided more than just the visitors from Trivium World should see the Song meanings because i believe they are essential to the whole album.
Matt should do the same thing for the next album, but have the meanings right in the booklet

I have one problem here. In Ascendancy there is the line Ascendancy's the only thing this will prove Prove what?

That's awesome, man!

Agreed - good idea...

Awesome man, Declaration is by far my favourite song meaning there..

Suffocating Sight has a cool meaning and uses some cool metaphors. Fuck, all my songs are either about my views on and personal experiences with religion, conformity, or heartbreak. I need to widen my perspective.

I hear ya dude, All my writings are about either Personal Torment ( I live in a 200 year old house, It's Haunted by the way and Often have Scary experiences, I've got some scary asss stories ) Hatred (not the Slipknot Kind of Hatred) and General Disgrace over what has happened to the world lately.