The Book of Souls

In the beginning as it was on Earth, there's a gentle mood played in Iron Maiden's music... before the shock of reality hits us in the face and it's time to admit: Everyone has demons to face, dark places in both mind and soul that we would love to erase. Bury them with the kings of old whose stories and legends have been told. Haunting tales of past empires and the fires they walked through in life and death as their kingdoms were raised in glory and then fell from a time of being a euphoric paradise before being tragically torn asunder and thrown into the flaming bowels of hell. Presented as a Book, though not Biblical in nature, a history lesson done in lyrical form, the concept deeply ensconced in the importance of highlighting the soul's memories of what was, is and will be. There's relevance to the journey in the Iron Maiden's song. Rights and wrongs of mankind since its inception centuries ago. Life, death and the changing hands of power, the tower built like Babel that unleashed God's ire on man's desire to have worth. On Earth, wars have always existed because of the twisted need for greed. The Book of Souls warns to take heed that cities of stone will topple... a prophecy currently coming true for none are willing to sacrifice anything, always wanting more for himself. Kings flaunting riches, a bane to their souls Commoners crying out in envious moans for what they will never be able to hold. History repeating itself from days of old. Based on false tongues of wanna-be gods. The book of lies is being read and accepted by far too many blind eyes. Is it the beginning of what the Book of Souls sees as the repetitious pattern of doom? Is it the time foreseen when civilization closes its eyes to the reality of truth and forsooth... annihilates itself and dies?