Dance with me
For I'll be leaving soon
The afterbirth on the keypads overwhelm
"Did he who make the lamb make thee"?
Help me find its origin
In a cartoon house
In a cartoon car
There are cities buried underneath our cities
"Let the people be free" it's all around us
Let the people see we so obviously had another hand And so separated
How can I feel or act like I've made this when I so obviously had another hand.






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    Im not really sure about the entire thing but the "did he who made the lamb..." is a direct quote from William Blake's poem The Tiger. The poem asks if the same creator of the lamb (which is talked about in his other poem, The Lamb. yeah, he went all out with them titles!) which symbolizes purity and is compare to a child and to Jesus, craeted the tiger. which is pretty much the opposite. So with that in mind and "help me find its origins" its seems like he asks for help on finding out who created all good and evil. if its the same God? different one? whatever it maybe. he just wants to know. And Existentialism I think plays a HUGE role in the new album as well as in this song. It’s the belief that we as human beings have full responsibility over creating our own lives, futures, and identities. So that explains the whole Cartoon thing. Since we created it all. It’s just a cartoon. I guess he’s just questioning how he/we can create our lives and have free will. When God knows all and pretty much predetermines our fates... Sort of off subject but I came to the conclusion that life is like a multiple choice answered test. God wrote out all the possible answers, from the smallest detail to the biggest. But we decide every answer we’re going through with. If you read up more on Existentialism you’ll see how it might have influenced a lot of the lyrics on this album. Thanks for reading. Hope it made sense!

    MaintainHymnon June 05, 2007   Link

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