"Our science is religion" He's stated before that he thinks committing oneself to a religion will make you a fanatic eventually, and that religious fanatics are what's wrong with the world today. So.. Todays science -> Negative, basically?
"No need to challenge the Cherubim" Assuming it's christianity he's talking about and they've been said (among other things) to guard the Garden of Eden's east side.. Maybe he means you shouldn't attempt to get into the Garden of Eden? I don't know really..
"Machines try to take me to hell" Bad science again..?
"Build a tower tall and strong It will be beautiful Using our technology Babel will stand anew" So, now when we have the technology that we do we'll build a tower that goes up into heaven. Doing what God did not want the humans to do previously, and prevented them from.
This song just feels like he's saying "religion = bad", at least to me anyway. I just get confused each time I try and analyse it, though. >.>;;
On a non-song-meaning note, I absolutely love this song! His voice in it is amazing imo and his english pronounciation is quite good.
I personally don't think he's trying to say that religion is bad, but rather, science or man can be bad.
I personally don't think he's trying to say that religion is bad, but rather, science or man can be bad.
Generally, the songs speaks of how science can be immoral and go against what God wants us to do. Basically, through science, we "play God" and do things that aren't exactly the best things to do.
Generally, the songs speaks of how science can be immoral and go against what God wants us to do. Basically, through science, we "play God" and do things that aren't exactly the best things to do.
"Our science is religion" I do agree that he means that he looks at science negatively in this line.
"Our science is religion" I do agree that he means that he looks at science negatively in this line.
"I'd break every rule" Suggests that he would do immoral things in order to achieve what he wants, for example, conducting horrible...
"I'd break every rule" Suggests that he would do immoral things in order to achieve what he wants, for example, conducting horrible experiments that has serious ethical issues.
"Machines try to take me to hell" I think this line means that science has pushed so many boundaries that it could be seen as a sin to go even further, and so because of being involved in science, they will perish for it.
"Build a tower tall and strong　It will be beautiful Using our technology　Babel will stand anew" Once again, man is pushing their boundaries and limits. They're going against God's will and what He originally wanted for us. We're trying to do the forbidden which God had explicitly told not to do.
"Oh, my creator, please tell me." Again, the idea of man playing God.
As for the whole sheep thing, I'm sure that raised a lot of ethical issues as well, which can tie into the whole song.
So I guess what I'm trying to say, man is corrupt and will pretty much do whatever what the hell he wants to do, regardless of what God says, regardless of ethical issues, etc. So it's not really science, but man. I don't think Hyde is criticizing religion but man. But, that's just how I always thought of it.
Eh, what with the clone reference and stuff. It might be about Dolly the sheep maybe? I didn't make a connection between the name and science/cloning at first.. :x