Payable on Death (abbreviated as P.O.D.) is an American nu metal band from … Read Full Bio ↴Payable on Death (abbreviated as P.O.D.) is an American nu metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 1992. The band's line-up consists of vocalist Sonny Sandoval, drummer Wuv Bernardo, guitarist Marcos Curiel, and bassist Traa Daniels. They have released six major label studio albums along with two independent albums and have sold over 12 million records worldwide. Over the course of their career, the band have also received three Grammy Award nominations, contributed to numerous motion picture soundtracks and toured internationally. With their third studio album, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, they achieved their initial mainstream success; the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2000. Their following studio album, Satellite, continued the band's success with the singles, "Alive" and "Youth of the Nation", pushing it to go triple platinum.

Discography:

1. Snuff the Punk (1994)
2. Brown (1996)
3. The Fundamental Elements of Southtown (1999)
4. Satellite (2001)
5. Payable on Death (2003)
6. Testify (2006)
7. When Angels & Serpents Dance (2008)
8. Murdered Love (2012)
9. The Awakening (2015)
10. Circles (2018)

Babylon the Murderer
P.O.D. Lyrics

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Tell the world
Tell the whole world that you keep nothing back, hold nothing back
Raise a single flag
Raise it to tell everyone that Babylon will fall
Her images and idols will be broken and destroyed,
Will be broken and destroyed

Yeah, ha ha

Babylon is a murderer
Crash down through the ground
Like lightning thunder
Pull the trigger and light you up
In a world so ?

And her gods will be shattered
Absolutely discredited
Perfectly ?
For a nation will come down from the north
With such destruction, and desolation
And bring it all to an end
Such death and demolition
Such death and devastation
That no one will ever live there again

Yeah, ha ha

Babylon is a murderer
Crash down through the ground
Like lightning thunder
Pull the trigger and light you up
In a world so ?

Pull the trigger
And as we sat down,
By the rivers of Babylon
We wept, and we wept
And we remembered, and we remembered Zion
Pull the trigger

Babylon is a murderer
Crash down through the ground
Like lightning thunder

Pull the trigger and light you up
In a world so ?

Overall Meaning

In P.O.D.'s song "Babylon the Murderer," the lyrics speak to the destruction and downfall of Babylon and its idols. The song begins with a call to action to spread the message of Babylon's fall and to raise a flag as a symbol of its destruction. The use of "Babylon" in the lyrics is a reference to the Biblical city of Babylon, which was a symbol of sin and evil in the Bible, and here it is used as a metaphor for the things in our lives that should be destroyed.

The lyrics go on to describe the destruction of Babylon, including the breaking and destruction of its images and idols. The song's chorus repeats the line "Babylon is a murderer," driving home the idea that whatever Babylon represents must be destroyed. The bridge of the song references a Biblical story where the people of Israel were exiled to Babylon and wept for their homeland, which is used to contrast the destruction of Babylon to the return to a better place.

Overall, the song presents a message of hope in the face of destruction and the need to destroy things that hold us back from a better life. The use of ancient Biblical references and imagery adds weight to the message and gives it a timeless quality.

Line by Line Meaning

Tell the world
Bring to the attention of the world

Tell the whole world that you keep nothing back, hold nothing back
Share everything without withholding anything

Raise a single flag
Use a simple symbol to proclaim

Raise it to tell everyone that Babylon will fall
Declare to all that Babylon is doomed to failure

Her images and idols will be broken and destroyed,
The objects of worship in Babylon will be crushed and ruined

Will be broken and destroyed
Completely destroyed and shattered

Babylon is a murderer
Babylon is guilty of many deaths

Crash down through the ground
Fall violently and suddenly

Like lightning thunder
Fierce and powerful like a storm

Pull the trigger and light you up
Cause destruction with deadly force

In a world so ?
In an uncertain and tumultuous world

And her gods will be shattered
The gods of Babylon will be destroyed

Absolutely discredited
Completely discredited and deemed false

Perfectly ?
Utterly and completely destroyed

For a nation will come down from the north
A powerful foreign army will invade from the north

With such destruction, and desolation
Causing massive death and ruin

And bring it all to an end
Put an end to Babylon's reign of terror

Such death and demolition
Bringing about a great deal of death and destruction

Such death and devastation
Resulting in widespread death and ruin

That no one will ever live there again
Babylon will be utterly destroyed and rendered uninhabitable

Pull the trigger
Use force to destroy

And as we sat down,
In a moment of reflection

By the rivers of Babylon
Thoughts turn to Babylon and its ways

We wept, and we wept
Causing much sadness and sorrow

And we remembered, and we remembered Zion
Recalling the glory of Zion, the city of God

Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: HOWARD BENSON, MARCOS CURIEL, MARK DANIELS, NOAH BERNARDO, PAUL SANDOVAL

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