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Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Battery Lyrics
Don't try to resist. You're coming with us. Provisions are made. Accomodations are met. Your words are encoded in the bleak genetics of the mob. Praise Apocrypha--omitted offense--to relieve us of guilt but not of our sin. We've sacrificed discourse at the feet of your clever turn of phrase. Now you owe it to us. We demand to be taken aback. To be shown the revival of hope for which your words are responsible.
Oh, it's the end of the line. I'm cornered by a precedent; the sneering public eye.
My job here is done.
My job here is done.
You're fucking welcome!
Retract the accolade, the candid acclaim. Inspiration is cutting its loss. Regurgitate headlines or a theory on modern art. You've been fooled again. The red herring's a joke.
I tried so hard to tell you that I've tapped the well dry. But there's no word.
Stay wistful and young. The affected are banking on oblivion -in the drone of embittered hope- and we're sold by the way they wrote it.
Oh, it's the end of the line. I'm cornered by a precedent; the sneering public eye.
My job here is done.
My job here is done.
And it is better to destroy, than to create what is meaningless, so the picture will not be finished.
My job here is done.
You're fucking welcome!
My job here is done.
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I hate to be the guy who brings up religion but this is just what this song means to me.
some religions try to buy you into them saying things like "revival is with us." or "If you pray you will be forgiven." in the song the lyrics read- "praise apocrypha- omitted offense--to relieve us of guilt but not of our sin." this sounds like how i used to feel when i was big into religion. i would pray and it just makes the sin seem ok but it doesn't take it away. i don't know if this makes sense but it's just something to think about.
"And it is better to destroy, than to create what is meaningless, so the picture will not be finished."
Best closing line I've ever heard in a song.
lmao, 'omitted offense' just comes out of nowhere.
This is BY FAR the best ETID song ever! I don't know what it means, though. It has alot of words I've never heard before, like other ETID songs. I heard on Wikipedia that Keith was a high school english teacher for a couple of years before his band formed. I'm guessing thats why the meanings in the songs are so hard to understand, because they're buried under a bunch of huge ass words.
And it is better to destroy, than to create what is meaningless, so the picture will not be finished.
reli powerful ending.
cant figure out wat it means though. any help?
Some of what destroyerdestroyer said I think is probably true. Apocrypha are texts of uncertain authenticity or writings where the authorship is questioned, like the Bible. We don't know for sure who wrote it. "Praise Apocrypha" could also be seen as "Praise the Bible" or "Pray to the Bible" or even just "To pray" to relieve the guilty feeling left by sin but not actually remove sin in its entirety.
The line 'praise apocrypha-ommited offense' to me concerns the book of Apocrypha, which had no author, using this as a sleight against fashion clad pop stars of our age where integrity within music is dead etc... the whole point the songs is driving at, that there is no art in popular music 'Ive tapped the well dry but theres no word'. Anyway it merely drives at the lack of an author to modern music and plays on the 'uncertain authenticity' that epyon mentioned before me. Keith might be saying that we praise these anthems that have no genuine meaning or truth, that wouldnt even be allowed in to this renegade Biblical chapter. This would cohere with the absolute stonker of a closing line.
I agree with you about the meaning of this song. Today's mainstream music is just hollow bullshit with no emotion or meaning. It's really killing our culture.
I agree with you about the meaning of this song. Today's mainstream music is just hollow bullshit with no emotion or meaning. It's really killing our culture.
I don't know about the rest of the song, but the final line reminds me a whole lot of the book (or movie) Fight Club. It almost sounds like a line straight of Fight Club, actually. But I dunno, its just a thought
this songs so awesome, wheres all the comments?
keith has said its inspired by this movie from the 80's where this director looses faith in this movie hes making
fucking amazing song though