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Dance for masters...primitive
Full of colors...offensive
I've just arrived
Like a flash in the dark
My life has been
Lit up like a spark
They turn around the big fire
They sing a song to get higher
I've just got here
To find underbrains
I'll watch their voodoo
That starts the rain
Are there any forces
Are there two faces
Are there some chances
We've never seen...that before
It's what we've been...waiting for
It just arrived
To save our lives
The flying lord
The god of all time
Have no idea....what it thinks
But have no fear...we trust it
It is the leader
Of our sacred wars
Came from the sky
It rules so far
Are there any forces
Are there two faces
Are there some chances
They're searching for something
Something to believe in...
Their convictions
Blood effusion
Is it a crime
Their convictions
Self-destruction
At the right time
Their convictions
Exploitation
Under the sigh
It's gonna be more
It's gonna be war
It's gonna be...
Who's the god
Who's the dog
Who's the dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Full of colors...offensive
I've just arrived
Like a flash in the dark
My life has been
Lit up like a spark
They sing a song to get higher
I've just got here
To find underbrains
I'll watch their voodoo
That starts the rain
Are there two faces
Are there some chances
We've never seen...that before
It's what we've been...waiting for
It just arrived
To save our lives
The flying lord
The god of all time
But have no fear...we trust it
It is the leader
Of our sacred wars
Came from the sky
It rules so far
Are there two faces
Are there some chances
Something to believe in...
Blood effusion
Is it a crime
Their convictions
Self-destruction
At the right time
Their convictions
Exploitation
Under the sigh
It's gonna be war
It's gonna be...
Who's the god
Who's the dog
Who's the dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
Who's god...Who's dog
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This is one of the best songs about religion I've ever heard. Comparisons between primitive faiths and the modern christianity are very obvious.
I can't believe there aren't more comments about this fantastic song (one of Voivod's very best, imo, even after all these years!)....hoped there'd be more takes, as I'm not sure of some things. I agree with Edmundo that it's basically about religion/belief....particularly "primitive" faiths, but there also seems to be something in there about it all being witnessed by some...entity? I never looked closely at the lyrics written down, but from hearing the song numerous times over the decades, it seemed like it was maybe about a time traveller seeing these rituals (dancing around fire, etc). It doesn't explicitly say "time travel," but that's how these lines have always hit me: "I've just arrived Like a flash in the dark, My life has been Lit up like a spark" Someone from another dimension...? or the future? Also "I've just got here".
The idea of someone from some other plane of existence just flashing into such a scene to me gives the song a sort of mysterious awe...
Anyway, I've never fully got the "Are there any forces/Are there two faces/ Are there some chances" part. Ideas...?