This song sticks out so much on the album. But it rocks so hard! Anyway, I think chronologically, this song would actually come between Halo of Nembutals and With Twilight as my guide. No offense EvaporatedBrock, but I think you're reading WAY too much into this. This song deals with the part of the story where the main character has kidnapped his girlfriend's father and he is torturing the father for information on his daughter. Where is the devil waiting?? The main character basically tortures the father by eating parts of him everyday. This is what makes the chorus lyrics so ironic. They don't have any food in the prison that the guy created to hold his girlfriend's father, but he survives by eating chunks of his captor. Thus, "I'll magnify a hole... (in your abdomen)"
IMO the most bad ass part is "I've got the weight of half the world..." and on because the lyrics alternate from the main character to the father. The father is screaming for help "Don't stop dragging the lake, don't stop looking for me" and the captor is basically saying "yeah, you're powerless, this isn't going to end until your daughter comes back to me"
Anyway, the most difficult part of this song to understand are the weird verses. I think the main point of them is that this main character thinks that he is some sort of prophet from ancient times destined to carry out this revenge against his cheating girlfriend. This is referenced again later during Luciforms when Cedric says "Like the Pharaohs of old, bury me in gold". Basically, the guy is totally crazy...
This song sticks out so much on the album. But it rocks so hard! Anyway, I think chronologically, this song would actually come between Halo of Nembutals and With Twilight as my guide. No offense EvaporatedBrock, but I think you're reading WAY too much into this. This song deals with the part of the story where the main character has kidnapped his girlfriend's father and he is torturing the father for information on his daughter. Where is the devil waiting?? The main character basically tortures the father by eating parts of him everyday. This is what makes the chorus lyrics so ironic. They don't have any food in the prison that the guy created to hold his girlfriend's father, but he survives by eating chunks of his captor. Thus, "I'll magnify a hole... (in your abdomen)"
IMO the most bad ass part is "I've got the weight of half the world..." and on because the lyrics alternate from the main character to the father. The father is screaming for help "Don't stop dragging the lake, don't stop looking for me" and the captor is basically saying "yeah, you're powerless, this isn't going to end until your daughter comes back to me"
Anyway, the most difficult part of this song to understand are the weird verses. I think the main point of them is that this main character thinks that he is some sort of prophet from ancient times destined to carry out this revenge against his cheating girlfriend. This is referenced again later during Luciforms when Cedric says "Like the Pharaohs of old, bury me in gold". Basically, the guy is totally crazy...