| Puscifer – The Rapture (Fear Is A Mind Killa Mix) Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Nobody mentioned how weird the phrase is - Drop you like Cain! It's never written how Cain killed Able and the common image is stabbing or some rock/club work. Or I am not aware of an alternative meaning of drop since I'm not a native speaker. However, my guess is that, even if it looks like a mistake at first, it might be intentional. Because, during this first murder in history a few more things happened - 1. Cain was self-righteous and, 2. the brothers were divided, with Cain DROPPING (LETTING GO OF, ABANDONING) Abel. That's a common motive in myths involving brothers - division, going their separate ways, arguments, etc. In this case, it's lifted to another level - I'll drop you like Cain dropped Abel. I'm symbolically abandoning you to the point of murder, to the point of (in my imagination) dropping you into the abyss, to the bottom. There's much hate and disgust in this song, but towards whom? I think it's the Piper. By the Piper, I mean anyone/anything that offers salvation but threatens with damnation. I believe it can be a relationship, a religious leader, or both? To me, it feels like Maynard's kind of a ritual for divorcing himself from this manipulative guilt/blessing game accepting Cain-like self-righteousness and self-initiated judgment instead of the manipulative interpretation of the judgment of a higher power. 'I'm sick of all of you who entitle themselves to shallowly prescribe the path to salvation, damn you all, I'm done with you.' |
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| A Perfect Circle – The Contrarian Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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When I think about it more carefully, I begin to feel this one as many other of their songs has layers I am only scratching and catching glimpses of. Yes, of course, this associates with politicians, the dishonest ones as well. I got this one while I was thinking about Peterson-Zizek debate (prior to the event itself). I think I see Peterson as pro-humanity, while I see Zizek's view (of which I don't know very much about to be honest) as very cynical and a bit misanthropic (of course this is only my impression). So in the light of this a naive part of my mind interprets this lyrics as it is- the contrarian, one of us that contradicts, that spites the common beliefs (something I find in myself at times) and does that for destructive purposes, not creative. We should be aware and beware the people that are like that around us as well as the contrarian within us. On the other hand, I can't just outrightly discard ANYTHING Zizek is talking about. I am sure there are warnings and lessons all of us can learn from his thoughts. SO, at the other layer, 'beware' is maybe put ironically. It's easy to discard a contradicting opinion even when it's something we could actually benefit from. |
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