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I guess it's about the end of a relationship where the person who ends the relationship wants to keep being friends even though both accept it, it's still hard for the other person to have a friendship since he still has feelings for her

This song is about Pol Pot and the Cambodian revolution. Killing fields were the collective farms he sent his people to die from slave labor. Another brutal history lesson from Slayer \m/

Pol Pot attempted his own "Super Great Leap Forward" in Cambodia, which he renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea.
He began by declaring, "This is Year Zero," and that society was about to be "purified."

Capitalism, Western culture, city life, religion, and all foreign influences were to be extinguished in favor of an extreme form of peasant Communism.
All of Cambodia's cities were then forcibly evacuated. At Phnom Penh, two million inhabitants were evacuated on foot into the countryside at gunpoint. As many as 20,000 died along the way.

Millions of Cambodians accustomed to city life were now forced into slave labor in Pol Pot's "KILLING FIELDS" where they soon began dying from overwork, malnutrition and disease, on a diet of one tin of rice (180 grams) per person every two days.

You are the negative part of the society, but regardless of that; life accepts you and even sings for you. That's what UB40 try to say, we love you Johnny but take care from Karma.. take care from the equalization state of the universe it will demolish you smoothly without hatred intent, that's just the way it is.

This is about a conversation with both Satan and God. This world as scripture tells us is ruled by Satan, heaven is ruled by God.
To Satan..If Satan is the dealer Cohen is out of the game.
To God..If you are the healer, Cohen is telling him he needs healing..he is broken and lame.
"You want it darker" is directed at Satan
"We put out the flame" is what we did by crucifying Christ.
"Millions of candles"..us..have been praying to God to remove evil from this world but that has not happened. Instead he sent Jesus, not to remove evil but to show us heaven is where we should want to be. We should be praying for our souls to be ready to go to heaven and he is saying in Hebrew "Hineni" meaning I am ready.

"I get closer, it brings me further" could mean that when they get closer to finding a way out of their despair, they end up being further down in their depression. I think this because Caleb Shomo (The lead singer) sings "Or is it in my head" which could mean that he notices this, but isn't sure if it's just something he's making up in his mind or not.

I love this song! It appears that it talks about some kind of opression- could be political like Palestinians- Israelites or it can be referring to situations under any kind of fascism or immigrants who struggle with proving who they are...