You can’t CMV. It’s quite clearly an anthem sung from the perspective of the revolutionaries amidst their struggles.
Let us examine the lyrics.
*On a cold winter morning
In the time before the light
In flames of Death’s eternal reign
We ride towards the fight
When the darkness has fallen down
And the times are tough, alright
The sound of evil laughter falls
Around the world tonight*
Clearly the stage is being set here - the communist forces have chosen to begin their revolution in the winter. The sound of evil laughter is a stand in for capitalism here. The “time before the light” is the pre-socialist period.
*Fighting hard, fighting on for the steel
Through the wastelands evermore
The scattered souls will feel the hell
Bodies wasted on the shores
On the blackest plains in hell’s domain
We watch them as they go
In fire and pain, now once again
We know*
Through the wastelands of capitalism, our revolutionaries choose to push on in their struggle, for they know it is just.
*So now, we fly ever free, we’re free before the thunderstorm
On towards the wilderness, our quest carries on
Far beyond the sundown, far beyond the moonlight
Deep inside our hearts and all our souls
So far away, we wait for the day
For the lives, all so wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days
Through the fire and the flames, we carry on*
The prechorus and chorus describes the soul of the revolutionary - their bodies may be engaged in a war against the capitalist hordes, but in their hearts, they are free, for they have class consciousness, solidarity, and are working to change their world.
*As the red day is dawning
And the lightning cracks the sky
They’ll raise their hands to the heavens above
With resentment in their eyes
Running back through the mid-morning light
There’s a burning in my heart
We’re banished from a time in a fallen land
To a life beyond the stars
In your darkest dreams, see to believe
Our destiny this time
And endlessly we’ll all be free
Tonight*
The “red day dawning” is quite obvious here. On a more literal level, this verse depicts the capitalist frustration - these revolutionaries had been exiled, but are now returning to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. The capitalists are throwing up their hands in frustration as they are being beaten back. The communists know they will win, and are winning here.
*And on the wings of a dream, so far beyond reality
All alone in desperation, now the time has gone
Lost inside you’ll never find, lost within my own mind
Day after day, this misery must go on
Now, here we stand with their blood on our hands
We fought so hard now, can we understand?
I’ll break the seal of this curse if I possibly can
For freedom of every man*
While the revolutionaries did not want to engage in violent struggle, it was necessary for their revolution. They may have blood on their hands in a quite literal sense here, but they know that their revolution could not have succeeded peacefully. The final lyrics to the song reaffirm their commitment to fighting for the people.
This is dialectics.
side note, there’s a pretty good mashup of this track with a weeknd instrumental if you want it in a more synth/80s flavor