| El-P – Flyentology (feat. Trent Reznor) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It is, however, interesting to note that in the video the lead character resists indoctrination, and is plummeted to what the "Saviors" believe will be his doom. Might I propose that the fall is a metaphor for life disaster, and that the wings are simply the tools for escaping it. The Flyzealots grab people out of their lives and claim to be able to help them by giving them wings... but they get much more, they're turned into flyzealots themselves, with wings but also entire "fly minds" and are presumably charged with getting other people to accept their way. When the lead character tries to escape, they see that he won't accept their dogma and let him fall (or let him 'burn in hell') so he falls again, finding at the very last moment he actually had the tools he needed all along (notice he has wings but he's still himself... not a copy/paste "flyhead" like the rest) My conclusion is that the song is intended to be a criticism of religious faith from an outside skeptical point of view, sighting parodistic examples such as "emergency humility, just break glass" and "Our bible is in your seat back pocket" | |
| El-P – Flyentology (feat. Trent Reznor) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Seems like everyone here is getting fairly close to the meaning here. The song has only one real meaning, but the way you interpret that meaning will vary depending on whether you're religious or skeptical. Postmortum, I have to point out that you are incorrect. However absurd it is (Atheist here) Faith wins. He's saying: "There are no atheists in the Foxholes, (no one at war will resist faith for comfort) There is no intellect in the air, (no one can be skeptical when faced with certain doom) there are no scientists on the way down" (no one will accept that there is no afterlife when their one shot is up) In other words, Faith wins because no one will accept that Physics dictates their demise, instead they turn to Faith for a "better" answer (perhaps one where they survive their own death) The words in the hook are, however, ill-informed. Plenty of skeptical people die everyday with the full knowledge that when it's over, it's over. No great intellectual has ever begged "God" to take him on his death-bed (No matter what heinous, and usually proven false, stories you may hear form desperate zealots) |
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