I think this song represents a sort of medium between something Jean-Luc DeMeyer hits on in a number of his songs across a number of his projects: fighting the good fight vs utter despair.
The Front 242 song "Crapage" is almost entirely fight.
The C-Tec song "Being Nothing" is entirely despair.
I believe this song is almost entirely despair with just a glimpse of hope/fight at the end.
The voice he's hearing is suggesting the choice of being "chained to the matter" -- be stuck in this miserable, corrupted existence -- or "let your body die". In other words, this sucks, maybe you should just die. This voice comes from culture and society all the time. All around us are people trying to do better but who get "diverted, betrayed and distorted". It's hopeless. So maybe you should just give up. Death is not the end, after all.
We are lost in this world. We have no torch to light up the trail. We DO have the ability to strive and we could do well here and improve our own areas if we apply the effort and we do have the talents we need to do this but is there still time? Did we squander the talents we had? Are they still expecting our call?
Find the answer in Crapage! (Always ready for another go.)
I think this song represents a sort of medium between something Jean-Luc DeMeyer hits on in a number of his songs across a number of his projects: fighting the good fight vs utter despair.
The Front 242 song "Crapage" is almost entirely fight. The C-Tec song "Being Nothing" is entirely despair. I believe this song is almost entirely despair with just a glimpse of hope/fight at the end.
The voice he's hearing is suggesting the choice of being "chained to the matter" -- be stuck in this miserable, corrupted existence -- or "let your body die". In other words, this sucks, maybe you should just die. This voice comes from culture and society all the time. All around us are people trying to do better but who get "diverted, betrayed and distorted". It's hopeless. So maybe you should just give up. Death is not the end, after all.
We are lost in this world. We have no torch to light up the trail. We DO have the ability to strive and we could do well here and improve our own areas if we apply the effort and we do have the talents we need to do this but is there still time? Did we squander the talents we had? Are they still expecting our call?
Find the answer in Crapage! (Always ready for another go.)