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Silver women on the OMNI magazine
They got the future precisely laid out as I need.
That Lux Aeterna sound is so frightening.
Holding hands with Lucifer is never that enlightening.
So fire it up. Fire it up and the flesh be damned,
Fire it up. Yeah, that’s the ticket now kick out the jams.
Engineer the future now. Damn tomorrow, future now!
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday’s for mice and gods.
Life inside the biosphere, dodecahedron fever’s here.
Sporting scarlet letters of genetic imperfection, dear.
Love child in the reeds. Take a sample for the breed.
Should have left him in the stream. Cooing at the smitten queen.
So fire it up. Fire it up and the flesh be damned,
Fire it up. Yeah, that’s the ticket now kick out the jams.
Engineer the future now. Damn tomorrow, future now!
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday’s for mice and gods.
Slowly, broken windows returning to the sand
The economic factors are no longer relevant.
That empty city sound is so frightening.
Neolithic fear is such a motivating factory.
So fire it up. Fire it up and the flesh be damned,
Fire it up. Yeah, that’s the ticket now kick out the jams.
Engineer the future now. Damn tomorrow, future now!
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday’s for mice and gods.
They got the future precisely laid out as I need.
That Lux Aeterna sound is so frightening.
Holding hands with Lucifer is never that enlightening.
Fire it up. Yeah, that’s the ticket now kick out the jams.
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday’s for mice and gods.
Sporting scarlet letters of genetic imperfection, dear.
Love child in the reeds. Take a sample for the breed.
Should have left him in the stream. Cooing at the smitten queen.
Fire it up. Yeah, that’s the ticket now kick out the jams.
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday’s for mice and gods.
The economic factors are no longer relevant.
That empty city sound is so frightening.
Neolithic fear is such a motivating factory.
Fire it up. Yeah, that’s the ticket now kick out the jams.
Throw the switches, prime the charge,
Yesterday’s for mice and gods.
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Very convoluted lyrics, but it seems to be roughly about a metallic genetically controlled future. One in which all imperfections "Mice and Gods" have been done away with. It seems that Neil is pissed about the genetic screening and the like taking place with humans. This song looks to be about how we as a culture want too much scientific advances too soon without concidering the consequences. The results of this society are seen in this section: "Slowly, broken windows returning to the sand The economic factors are no longer relevant. That empty city sound is so frightening. Neolithic fear is such a motivating factory." The "future city" destroys itself completely, as pointed out by the "economic factors" being no longer relevant. The economic factors that motivated the rushed progress don't matter when everyone is dead.
Adding to what Cape Kid said, which pretty much covered it IMO, the following lines pretty much explain the approach to religion.
Love child in the reeds. Take a sample for the breed. Should have left him in the stream. Cooing at the smitten queen. The love child in the reeds is Moses. All he is good for is to take a sample for the breed, we should have left him in the stream cooing at the smitten queen. Basically indicating that such religious figures are only valued for their genetic material in this future. Religion serves no purpose.
sounds like the problems of religion of past religion and the technology we are now embracing. "holding hands with Lucifer is never that enlightening" and the mention of Moses as "child in the reeds" say the problems that religion causes
sounds like the problems of religion of past religion and the technology we are now embracing. "holding hands with Lucifer is never that enlightening" and the mention of Moses as "child in the reeds" say the problems that religion causes
and technology is clearly referenced with the biosphere, decohedron, and genetics.
and technology is clearly referenced with the biosphere, decohedron, and genetics.
Mice and gods however is the past. Mice can = plague and sickness while gods = religion. I can interpret this as our push towards the future and technology while trying to dispose of sickness and religion as problems of a past...
Mice and gods however is the past. Mice can = plague and sickness while gods = religion. I can interpret this as our push towards the future and technology while trying to dispose of sickness and religion as problems of a past that we can solver with math and science.
I could be wrong, but I think this is a Carpe Diem-type song. Sieze the day, and damn the consequences. And you have to wonder if he is "reefer"-ing to pot in the chorus. =)
Sounds more like it's about alternate future, post-Armaggedon.
search, "dodecahedron fever" on google. i dare you. now search, "dodecahedron." it comes up with a 12 sided figure, and all the faces are regular pentagons. neil IS pissed about the, "unnatural, scientific, and mathmatical" world that is coming. cape kid is right.
I think the others nailed the message on the head. This is one my favorite Clutch songs.
I must agree with capekid, lookingfordolving, and Durenoth for the most part. It's about us clamouring for the future now and not willing to wait for it to come to us "Engineer the future now, damn tomorrow! Future now!" And that the past is only for the mkeek of heart, mice, as in "are we mice or are we men!?" And obsolete figures like Gods.
I seriously wonder if "biosphere was purposely made to make a reference to Hyperion. That book has a giant sphere of plant life weaved together in a giant circular form. The genetic imperfection could also be reference to the "Ousters", who are genetically modified to some pretty extreme levels sometimes.
Biosphere is actually a scientific term regarding life on Earth, similarly there also the lithosphere, and atmosphere.
Biosphere is actually a scientific term regarding life on Earth, similarly there also the lithosphere, and atmosphere.