| Acid Bath – The Beautiful Downgrade Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Implying any self-reference to The Blue beyond the rudimentary is woefully simple minded. If you actually listen to these two songs they do share a thread of commonality, which is to say the thematic element of primitivistic hedonism, sex, death, and murder. Which nearly all Acid Bath songs have to some extent. If you want to say that The Beautiful Downgrade alludes to The Blue then you may as well say that it also aludes to Graveflower whose lyrics are far more closely related. Besides this, Dax Riggs is not the type of lyricist to make hollow self-references in his material. This song deals with the inner workings of humanity, largely referring to both shamanistic practices and band-level societies juxtaposed against scenes of modernity and the post-printing press era and the desolation therein. It also consistently refers to man's need to revert to these primitive times and how we've exiled ourselves into a self-imposed prison of sorts. It also makes references to outside forces who ultimately shape the world and whom the narrator blames for these bleak circumstances, namely attacking God, "The Agents of Oblivion", and "The Assassins of Freedom", in many ways these could be taken to represent the Holy Trinity. This may seem like a stretch, and I don't believe that's the inherent meaning of those three entities, but for all intents and purposes it's an apt description because they all serve the same purposes, i.e. the destruction of natural order. This piece is ultimately an attack on organized religion in my opinion, the clergy being the "Agents of Oblivion", God's murder of eternity and the Truth which is referred to as the base human assumption and referencing Shamanism. It also makes brief reference to Christ in the form of Hitler crowned in barbed wire. This crown of thorns imagery is very apparent and especially the comparison of Christ and Hitler, two beings that in context shepherd people astray. Ultimately burning Truth and assassinating Freedom, whether of body or of thought. Finally, of course, we have The Beautiful Downgrade, which refers to running through the forests and the chaos and shaking sharpened bone at the sky, the vast unknown. Christianity murdered truth in such a way as to perform deicide against the Natural Order. |
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