Food For The Gods

this song kicks ass.. as every single IF song does imo. and no one has written a thing here.. thats a shame.

I agree, this song should get so much freakin' attention, it has an awesome beat, and everything going for it. Why are songs like this overlooked with so few comments when there's songs which sound the same as the next piece of emo racking up hundreds? this is stupid.

I agree, this song should get so much freakin' attention, it has an awesome beat, and everything going for it. Why are songs like this overlooked with so few comments when there's songs which sound the same as the next piece of emo racking up hundreds? this is stupid.

this song is hard to tell what it's saying even though this album has some easy ones on it.... it's probably apocalyptical, knowing Niklas Sundin (lyricalist for this album)...to me it seems to be some sort of a sci fi adventure thing...which is cool

The first verse is quite obviously about wanting to die and loosing the will to live.

The "Escape takes lead" verse describe an alternative dimension/world/similar.

The second verse is pretty straightforward, but it's function is to tie the first and the escape verses together.

The third verse can be understood as suicide, or as entering the otherworld.

The general theme of this song is the afterlife, and discontent with the present life.

...the chorus riff is quite possibly the best riff in history...

This whole album is connected to the meaning of jotun through to episode 666, it's all like a big story if you look at them all together. +I thought jesper stromblad written all lyrics up until colony?

jesper wrote a handfull of lyrics in tjr only....he wrote artifacts of hte black rain and moonshield...the rest of the lyrics in tjr and whoracle were mainly written by niklas sundin based off themes made by anders and jesper, some were writeen by anders and translated by sundin. Colony was completely written by anders in swedish and translated to english by niklas sundin with a few changes to make them sound right, but stay the same....clayman up until now has all been written in english by anders

alrite so ive been talkin with a couple of friends of mine about the whole whoracle album, and honestly i think you people got it wrong.....or maybe i did cuz we did talk about this for hours drunk off our asses. but in the end, i got to the conclusion that:

1) food for the gods is an amazing song

2) its part of the whoracle album, meaning it has to be part of the whole story that the album talks about, which is the history of mankind. Jotun starts by talking about a dream, so its not really the beginning. its a hint of the end. food for the gods is the real beginning.

/Shame marries the guilt introduces itself to the concept of total loneliness/

*this talks about how man was once lonely. the rest of the verse could be talking about suicide, but lets just pretend that it has to relate to the history of man. it could be interpreted to say that the loneliness is something so painful it could drive man to suicide.

/Escape takes lead into a world unknown uncontrolled by all where borders are erased and potential infinite/

*this means that there is another world that people of this world have no control over..and we cannot begin to define and thus understand its borders and limits so to us it would seem infinite.

/Chosen cells, glands and transmittors blast the body with joy Astral feet running up to dimensions covered with gold stairs of glowing electroplasma safir onyx and buzzing vibrations A dead men´s banquet food for the gods/

*this shows the belief that the next life has everything blissful to us in this one, and the only way to attain it is to 'feed the gods' (believing in them)

/There´s only 1 real world our earth is but a shadow Created from a child´s heart, a living jewel from now on abode for a soul in its setting/

*so now that man believes that this life means nothing and its the next one that counts, its compared to but a shadow of wat is to come. also, its the kind of thing only children could truly believe without doubt because they do not have the knowlege needed to question this belief....the bible talks about this very same concept but thats waaay too much info

/Cutting the bloodline re-tie the bleeding roots to heavenly ship of glass and let it drift in passive arrogance in a one-word dialogue with the stars/

*blood sacrifice. not as in-depth as the rest but its all that i could think of. heavenly ship of glass - either cutting oneself with glass or to fill a glass with ones blood, and this is all apparently normal in the name of the gods because of the last lines - basically not caring about something as precious as blood because of out preoccupation with the stas(heavens-gods-faith-blinding)

I don't think he's pronouncing "banquet" right. I'm gonna check dictionary.com to make sure.