| The Mars Volta – Asilos Magdalena Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't speak Spanish but I think "I'll show you my body of mud" is a metaphor, saying that he/she feels they are unclean eg body of mud means a dirty body or filthy body. If you combine it with "Don't give me your obedience", it's saying don't look up to me or don't idolize me because my body is unclean. So I think the lyrics should be something like this: Sick I arrived, and to heal myself I’m wandering Don't give me your obedience, Because I'll show you the filth of my body Where the skin was weak With a hunger that wouldn't let me sing. In my life The dark one maintains me. When I saw you In the rain, you promised me Your blood. I didn't stay. Since you fell from this world I've carried a blade, my God, for you How many times did you bite me? How many times did I leave? I am not in love With your lies In hell I sleep Because hell is the only truth Morning star, Samael I follow you, And if I burn without wings, I will have died for you. On a side note Samael are one of my favorite bands :) |
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| Samael – The Cross Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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To me the song is a pretty scathing attack on Christianity, it's about the pervasive influence it has on society. The first verse is about how Christianity spreads because of mans need for spiritual enlightenment (macculate our loneliness) and about the problems inherent in Christianity being trapped "between two worlds", the physical world represented by the corruption of the church and the spiritual world represented by the ideology Christianity strives for. The two 'worlds' are at odds with each other and Christianity is a struggle between the dominance of the two (tension of opposite poles) The chorus address the negative influence Christianity has, Pilot souls refer to people who live their life on 'autopilot', never questioning anything about the world around them and accepting the status quo. "Would you betray innovation in the name of tradition" is fairly straight forward and obvious. The last verse is about the separation of church and state Helvetia (Switzerland, where Samael is from), voted to overturn the separation of church and state (Christianity is the state religion). Anyway thats just the way I see the song, the great thing about their lyrics are that their ambiguous enough for people to derive their own meanings from them. The song is amazing one of Samael's best in my opinion. |
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