Spit Out the Bone

I think it is really simple. Humans are flawed and too self destructive (ahhhaa), as seen in "the flesh betrays the flesh", and the most ideal solution is either robot supremecy or cyborg supremecy, for they mostly suggest the re-movement or replacement of certain organs and functions that prevent us from propper co-operation and growth, such as the heart and emotions.

This song goes quite deep. Obviously, it is machine becoming the new force on the planet, converting humans to machines. This song also has religious references. The term "Eat the meat and spit out the bones" can be used in reference here as well. The term normally refers to the "bones" as something undesirable, like stuff you don't want to hear about, the truth, or in this song's case, Humanity to Machine Overlords. The meat part is the sought after by everyone, so they would easily eat it, be it any topic that is the opposite of the bones.

Knowing that, it makes the music video make a lot more sense. The imagery is showing humans being turned into machines, to the point where they are the former in the red robes are worshiping the large machine as a god. listening to it's doctrine and blindly following like a hivemind. In turn, they destroy the human race, the bone, and protect machine, the meat.

I think it's a song about pain. To be more precise, about too much pain, and the will of people to evolve beyond the pain, to denounce the human nature fragility and become numb, a robot. It's about letting go of feelings and becoming senseless. When your world is pain, one may find relief in a more mechanical form. Basically just stop living, only survive.

I watched the music video and couldn't help but lol. It was like scene straight out of Metalocalypse. Really I don't find a deep meaning here; for me it's just a bad ass song to jam to at work. I'm sure all the guys at the dock were wondering why I was head banging while shooting some primer on a bulkhead but I just couldn't help myself.

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This song as almost all the song in this album is quite cynick and mocking. I think its mostly about what cristian12 wrote about a person how hide from his feelings and mostly of pain by start to think like machine. But in the same time that person is feel hatred toward the human race and wish it to crumble. But the singer is actually despise that person and say spit out the bone, becouse the singer thinks that the person is lost within this kind a thinking and hes chewing on it like a dog in a bone. This song is pretty much goes hand in hand with Misery, Still good song thou from a bunch oldfart.