| Gojira – Born for One Thing Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This song is about the ultimate purpose of our lives, which according to many philosophers throughout history is to come to terms with our own immortality. In the face of immortality, our lives are in many ways absurd. We keep forming attachments throughout our lives, things we value and don't want to lose, possession, love, children, our home. We do that in spite of the fact that we know deep down we lose all of that with death, we are eventually going to lose everything. Our immortality is probably the hardest thing to accept in life, which is why man has come up with all kinds of strategies aimed at denying it, religious belief, superstition, the idea of an immaterial, eternal substance (soul). All these thought constructs are totally lacking in evidence to support them if you look at them critically and soberly, but yet they reign supreme because they fulfill a deep rooted emotional desire to live on after physical death. | |
| Celtic Frost – A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This song is mocking the religious ideal of immortality when it is obvious that the world is eventually going to come to an end (What's there to live for when the world is dead?) and also psychologically we would eventually become weary of life if we had to live forever, tedium would eventually have us wish for death, we would become dead inside: Frozen my heart. Frozen my soul. Frozen my love. The death of God has been known as a symbol of humanity losing its faith, and as frost is a metaphor of death, "frozen is heaven and frozen is hell", which means that faith is dying. So the one who was previously living in a delusion of absurd immortality (religious man) gets hit by the revelation that this mortal human flesh is all there is and it's dying as we live. |
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