| Meshuggah – Demiurge Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The Demiurge is the creator of the universe. I tend to imagine it as the Christian god but they could mean it as any Creator in general. For the purpose of this post, I'll assume that it refers to the Christian god. "Writhing and embraced:" You writhe in a constant struggle of anguish, guilt, and misery caused by your religion, and yet you are under the delusion that this religion and its respective God loves and accepts (embraces) you. "Sucking vomit acting like it's honey:" You engage in all the activities associated with the religious doctrine - you go to church, read the Bible, pray... but in truth it is all worthless garbage, or "vomit." Despite this, you still believe it all to be the word of God and as such, you consume these lies as if they were the words of true wisdom (honey). "Deprived of I:" This religion deprives you of your autonomy and indoctrinates you into a collective hive mind of unthinking slaves. "Falling while thrusting squares through circles:" Unknowingly falling into the pit of lies created by your religion, you continue to try and fix the world's problems using what your religion teaches you, to no avail (squares through circles = giving the wrong answers). This may also be a reference to children's toys and the fact that Christians are naive like children, not realizing their mistake. In the same vein, children are indoctrinated from a young age, so that religion is all they know, and they are not given a choice of what to believe. As long as they follow the beliefs they are taught as Christians, they will always be children. The Christian serves one single new dimension: lies. "Agnostics' nemesis. A prophet of extinction:" Your god is the nemesis of all nonbelievers, but in actuality your belief drives you and the rest of the human race to extinction due to closed-mindedness and apathy towards the environment. You continue to destroy the world under the delusion that God will save it. "I scorch the skies...:" This line and the one following it are from the first-person perspective of God. In an act of incredible power he can annihilate all that we know, if he so pleases. (This could also be a reference to pollution and the greenhouse effect.) You are enslaved to your religion but, as before, you trick yourself into believing that you love your God, even though you live in constant, crippling fear of him. "Just trust this nemesis to sign and seal extinction:" A message to the theist. You can trust that God (the agnostics' nemesis) will continue to lie, and your religious doctrine will deceive you so that you lead the world to its ultimate extinction (pollution, religious wars, etc.). Trust in religion will slowly kill the world. |
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