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Goliath Lyrics
that night I remember
what you slipped in my glass
we came rewinding when
I foamed at the mouth
while the lights winked at me
and now my shape is kept
the rain it can't hide
wash the pain from this hex
is it so permanent
did she catch the left eye
when it blinks three times
or once just to seal you in
in your drunken breath
did it stain like us
in place of poison heat
I gotta rid this world of your intentions
swap the corpse
in a casket
give me that corpse please
the one that tore nightly
I really want it now
fold the arms slowly
don’t want you to hold me
if fits just like a glove
does it make you feel alright
when I seep inside your truth
through suspicious little coughs
you sink your nails inside a key
while the door you shut closed up
the black stockings you kept
smell of wet cigarettes
torn of lust that you could not keep
I have slept inside your fault
to have you keep me here
on this leash
for the rest of your pets
I will feed to the theft
as we consummate the vows of defeat
and when you pray for an end to this
I do believe this is eternity
give me that corpse please
the one that tore nightly
I really want it now
fold the arms slowly
don’t want you to hold me
if fits just like a glove
your closet is bulging
white marrow withholding
does it make you feel alright?
never heard a man
speak like this man before
never heard a man
speak like this man before
all the days of my life
ever since I’ve been born
never heard a man
speak like this man before
watch me now
say it loud
hold your heavy burden
in a pocket full of drink that I’ve drunk
spit the remnants in your direction
this is the closest to any kingdom
that you will come
I’m starting to feel a miscarriage coming on
it's numbing a stump
clearing in my throat
and I just can't lose grip of it
she fumigates my mental hygiene
I’m all out of pulse
but I know you can resuscitate me
never heard a man
speak like this man before
never heard a man
speak like this man before
all the days of my life
ever since I been born
never heard a man
speak like this man before
watch me now
what you slipped in my glass
we came rewinding when
I foamed at the mouth
while the lights winked at me
and now my shape is kept
the rain it can't hide
wash the pain from this hex
is it so permanent
did she catch the left eye
when it blinks three times
or once just to seal you in
in your drunken breath
did it stain like us
in place of poison heat
I gotta rid this world of your intentions
swap the corpse
in a casket
give me that corpse please
the one that tore nightly
I really want it now
fold the arms slowly
don’t want you to hold me
if fits just like a glove
does it make you feel alright
when I seep inside your truth
through suspicious little coughs
you sink your nails inside a key
while the door you shut closed up
the black stockings you kept
smell of wet cigarettes
torn of lust that you could not keep
I have slept inside your fault
to have you keep me here
on this leash
for the rest of your pets
I will feed to the theft
as we consummate the vows of defeat
and when you pray for an end to this
I do believe this is eternity
give me that corpse please
the one that tore nightly
I really want it now
fold the arms slowly
don’t want you to hold me
if fits just like a glove
your closet is bulging
white marrow withholding
does it make you feel alright?
never heard a man
speak like this man before
never heard a man
speak like this man before
all the days of my life
ever since I’ve been born
never heard a man
speak like this man before
watch me now
say it loud
hold your heavy burden
in a pocket full of drink that I’ve drunk
spit the remnants in your direction
this is the closest to any kingdom
that you will come
I’m starting to feel a miscarriage coming on
it's numbing a stump
clearing in my throat
and I just can't lose grip of it
she fumigates my mental hygiene
I’m all out of pulse
but I know you can resuscitate me
never heard a man
speak like this man before
never heard a man
speak like this man before
all the days of my life
ever since I been born
never heard a man
speak like this man before
watch me now
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Goliath- (Old Testament) a giant Philistine warrior who was slain by David with a slingshot. OR someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
research lead me to.. yea, the bands myspace... where it explains the meaning behind The Bedlam and Goliath album. Seems they based the entire album off of a Ouija board (genius source of inspiration) one section states "The Soothsayer offers them names: Goliath, Mr. Mugs, Patience Worth, Tourniquet Man. The Soothsayer offers them a story: It's always about a man, a woman, and her mother. About the lust floating between them. About seduction and infidelity. And pain. And eventually, murder. Entrails and absence and curses and oblivion. Exactly the kind of spooky shit you'd want from your Ouija."
sure i can see that in this song... lust, infidelity, murder... TMV songs-open to interpretation, as you well know
good job on the lyrics cynicalove. thats pretty much what i hear. perhaps later i can help to fill in the ???'s.
this song is --- kickin' :)
First of all let me make it clear to all who are about to read this message that since this song was inspired by the communication with an evil spirit through an ouija board, the intention of the spirit is to confuse the reader. As it is well known, demons are liars and with every lie they tell, they mix a little bit of truth into their sorcery to "legitimize" their message.
First of all let me make it clear to all who are about to read this message that since this song was inspired by the communication with an evil spirit through an ouija board, the intention of the spirit is to confuse the reader. As it is well known, demons are liars and with every lie they tell, they mix a little bit of truth into their sorcery to "legitimize" their message.
"the rain it can't hide wash the pain from this hex is it so permanent?"
"the rain it can't hide wash the pain from this hex is it so permanent?"
--The pain being referred to is the pain a...
--The pain being referred to is the pain a demon feels by being "slain in the spirit." The act of God which terminates the source of joy and hope and enlightenment from their soul. When a demon first commit's the "unforgivable sin" he doesn't quite understand the impact of what he's done and he asks of the pain that has entered him "is it so permanent." Because when God removes the holy spirit from a disloyal child, it is eternal punishment.
"I gotta rid this world of your intentions"
--The demon's and their earthly subjects "the false prophets" are trying to mislead people from finding the truth of Jehovah's Kingdom and his intentions of bringing salvation to sinners through his son Jesus.
"does it make you feel alright when I seep inside your truth through suspicious little coughs"
--When a false prophet is calling Christ's teachings false and the person he is preaching to feels he is being lied to but accepts the lies to retain the status quo and remain a part of the general community, the one being lied to will cough suspiciously because it is a natural reflex in keeping the truth that's burning inside his heart at bay.
"as we consummate the vows of defeat and when you pray for an end to this I do believe this is eternity"
--Jesus sayed that those who've blasphemed the holy spirit will pray for death but it will not find them until he returns. They will be cursed as Cain was to wander the Earth, while "their madness is clear to everyone."--2 Timothy. The bible says these people will not get far.
"hold your heavy burden in a pocket full of drink that I’ve drunk spit the remnants in your direction this is the closest to any kingdom that you will come"
--The bible says that God's burden is light. So in polar opposite, those that hate the truth and worship Satan will have a heavy burden of despair, hopelessness, and anger knowing they have a short time left until the end. From the same cup of evil that the fallen angels have drank, so will their earthly human worshippers...like Judas Iscariot...who was labelled "the son of destruction." They will not enter the holy city and will fall outside of it being eaten alive by the dogs.
"I’m starting to feel a miscarriage coming on it's numbing a stump clearing in my throat"
--This happens when a wicked man, after just becoming evil, tries to beg forgivness from God through prayer. Because he is not remorseful, his prayer is unacceptable to Jehovah and his holy spirit is ripped from his body through the throat. It would feel as though he were choking, and loosing the most precious gift he has been given.
That's the truth behind these lyrics. Some of it is nonsensical and that's how the demon's like it. They don't want people becoming Witnesses to the Most High God!!
First of all let me make it clear to all who are about to read this message that since this song was inspired by the communication with an evil spirit through an ouija board, the intention of the spirit is to confuse the reader. As it is well known, demons are liars and with every lie they tell, they mix a little bit of truth into their sorcery to "legitimize" their message.
First of all let me make it clear to all who are about to read this message that since this song was inspired by the communication with an evil spirit through an ouija board, the intention of the spirit is to confuse the reader. As it is well known, demons are liars and with every lie they tell, they mix a little bit of truth into their sorcery to "legitimize" their message.
"the rain it can't hide wash the pain from this hex is it so permanent?"
"the rain it can't hide wash the pain from this hex is it so permanent?"
--The pain being referred to is the pain a...
--The pain being referred to is the pain a demon feels by being "slain in the spirit." The act of God which terminates the source of joy and hope and enlightenment from their soul. When a demon first commit's the "unforgivable sin" he doesn't quite understand the impact of what he's done and he asks of the pain that has entered him "is it so permanent." Because when God removes the holy spirit from a disloyal child, it is eternal punishment.
"I gotta rid this world of your intentions"
--The demon's and their earthly subjects "the false prophets" are trying to mislead people from finding the truth of Jehovah's Kingdom and his intentions of bringing salvation to sinners through his son Jesus.
"does it make you feel alright when I seep inside your truth through suspicious little coughs"
--When a false prophet is calling Christ's teachings false and the person he is preaching to feels he is being lied to but accepts the lies to retain the status quo and remain a part of the general community, the one being lied to will cough suspiciously because it is a natural reflex in keeping the truth that's burning inside his heart at bay.
"as we consummate the vows of defeat and when you pray for an end to this I do believe this is eternity"
--Jesus sayed that those who've blasphemed the holy spirit will pray for death but it will not find them until he returns. They will be cursed as Cain was to wander the Earth, while "their madness is clear to everyone."--2 Timothy. The bible says these people will not get far.
"hold your heavy burden in a pocket full of drink that I’ve drunk spit the remnants in your direction this is the closest to any kingdom that you will come"
--The bible says that God's burden is light. So in polar opposite, those that hate the truth and worship Satan will have a heavy burden of despair, hopelessness, and anger knowing they have a short time left until the end. From the same cup of evil that the fallen angels have drank, so will their earthly human worshippers...like Judas Iscariot...who was labelled "the son of destruction." They will not enter the holy city and will fall outside of it being eaten alive by the dogs.
"I’m starting to feel a miscarriage coming on it's numbing a stump clearing in my throat"
--This happens when a wicked man, after just becoming evil, tries to beg forgivness from God through prayer. Because he is not remorseful, his prayer is unacceptable to Jehovah and his holy spirit is ripped from his body through the throat. It would feel as though he were choking, and loosing the most precious gift he has been given.
That's the truth behind these lyrics. Some of it is nonsensical and that's how the demon's like it. They don't want people becoming Witnesses to the Most High God!!
This song is reference to Pastor Jim Jones and the Jamestown mass suicide in 1976-8. "id never heard a man like this before" was a hymn they would sing to him in service at the peoples temple in california before they moved to JamesTown South America. the first line is talking about something slipped into a drink, which was the poison mixed with the punch which they all ingested when jones' found the FBI had heard about his acts of abuse. There were so many bodies they didnt know what to do. i think this is what cedrics trying to explain. i havent really researched any of the other songs but i heard that one off the new album was a cover song. This is it, the chorus, the hymn they sung in service.
give me that CORPSE, please?
yeah, that makes sense. corpse. coulda swore i heard a 'cl-' sound, but it does indeed sound like corpse. the video to this through me off i suppose(if you haven't seen it, youtube it, it's quite amusing)
er, threw*.
and yes, i've heard the story is rather insane("the album that didn't want to be born"?), but hadn't heard it was derived from a ouija board. crazy. must have been a long ouija board session..
First of all let me make it clear to all who are about to read this message that since this song was inspired by the communication with an evil spirit through an ouija board, the intention of the spirit is to confuse the reader. As it is well known, demons are liars and with every lie they tell, they mix a little bit of truth into their sorcery to "legitimize" their message.
First of all let me make it clear to all who are about to read this message that since this song was inspired by the communication with an evil spirit through an ouija board, the intention of the spirit is to confuse the reader. As it is well known, demons are liars and with every lie they tell, they mix a little bit of truth into their sorcery to "legitimize" their message.
"the rain it can't hide wash the pain from this hex is it so permanent?"
"the rain it can't hide wash the pain from this hex is it so permanent?"
--The pain being referred to is the pain a...
--The pain being referred to is the pain a demon feels by being "slain in the spirit." The act of God which terminates the source of joy and hope and enlightenment from their soul. When a demon first commit's the "unforgivable sin" he doesn't quite understand the impact of what he's done and he asks of the pain that has entered him "is it so permanent." Because when God removes the holy spirit from a disloyal child, it is eternal punishment.
"I gotta rid this world of your intentions"
--The demon's and their earthly subjects "the false prophets" are trying to mislead people from finding the truth of Jehovah's Kingdom and his intentions of bringing salvation to sinners through his son Jesus.
"does it make you feel alright when I seep inside your truth through suspicious little coughs"
--When a false prophet is calling Christ's teachings false and the person he is preaching to feels he is being lied to but accepts the lies to retain the status quo and remain a part of the general community, the one being lied to will cough suspiciously because it is a natural reflex in keeping the truth that's burning inside his heart at bay.
"as we consummate the vows of defeat and when you pray for an end to this I do believe this is eternity"
--Jesus sayed that those who've blasphemed the holy spirit will pray for death but it will not find them until he returns. They will be cursed as Cain was to wander the Earth, while "their madness is clear to everyone."--2 Timothy. The bible says these people will not get far.
"hold your heavy burden in a pocket full of drink that I’ve drunk spit the remnants in your direction this is the closest to any kingdom that you will come"
--The bible says that God's burden is light. So in polar opposite, those that hate the truth and worship Satan will have a heavy burden of despair, hopelessness, and anger knowing they have a short time left until the end. From the same cup of evil that the fallen angels have drank, so will their earthly human worshippers...like Judas Iscariot...who was labelled "the son of destruction." They will not enter the holy city and will fall outside of it being eaten alive by the dogs.
"I’m starting to feel a miscarriage coming on it's numbing a stump clearing in my throat"
--This happens when a wicked man, after just becoming evil, tries to beg forgivness from God through prayer. Because he is not remorseful, his prayer is unacceptable to Jehovah and his holy spirit is ripped from his body through the throat. It would feel as though he were choking, and loosing the most precious gift he has been given.
That's the truth behind these lyrics. Some of it is nonsensical and that's how the demon's like it. They don't want people becoming Witnesses to the Most High God!!
On a trip in Jerusalem, Rodriguez-Lopez purchased an archaic ouija-type talking board at a curio shop as a gift for Bixler-Zavala. They would return to their tour bus after shows to play with it during their 2006 tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as it quickly became the band's post-show ritual.[5] Dubbed "The Soothsayer", the board revealed stories, gave names and made demands, as the band was contacted by three different people who appeared in the form of one, who was then referred to as "Goliath". The more the band interacted with "The Soothsayer", otherworldly coincidences began plaguing the...
On a trip in Jerusalem, Rodriguez-Lopez purchased an archaic ouija-type talking board at a curio shop as a gift for Bixler-Zavala. They would return to their tour bus after shows to play with it during their 2006 tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as it quickly became the band's post-show ritual.[5] Dubbed "The Soothsayer", the board revealed stories, gave names and made demands, as the band was contacted by three different people who appeared in the form of one, who was then referred to as "Goliath". The more the band interacted with "The Soothsayer", otherworldly coincidences began plaguing the band's experience writing and recording The Bedlam in Goliath: Blake Fleming, their drummer at the time, quit mid-tour and left the band with financial troubles; Bixler-Zavala wound up needing surgery performed on his foot due to the shoes he had been wearing, forcing him to relearn how to walk post-surgery;[5] audio tracks sporadically disappeared from the studio's harddrives; Rodriguez-Lopez's home studio flooded and was subject to multiple power outages; and the album's original engineer went through a nervous breakdown, leaving behind all previous work with no notes as to where anything was.[6] The engineer who quit stated to Rodriguez-Lopez: "I'm not going to help you make this record. You're trying to do something very bad with this record, you're trying to make me crazy and you're trying to make people crazy."[7]
Rodriguez-Lopez was on the brink of starting the recording from scratch, but eventually kept on after recruiting Robert Carranza as a replacement engineer, along with assistance from Lars Stalfors and Isaiah Abolin. Midway through the recording sessions, Rodriguez-Lopez broke "The Soothsayer" in half and buried it in an undisclosed location as an attempt to undo the curse and halt the unforeseen tragedies. Rodriguez-Lopez swore never to give away the location of the burial, and also asked the band not to speak of it again during the remainder of the album's production.
i'm starting to feel a miscarriage comin' on it's numb and it's stuck clear in my throat(?) and i just can't lose grip of it she fumed the gates of(fumigated?) my mental hygiene i'm all out of pulse but i know you can resuscitate me
Anyone know what he is going for there?
does he say: "she fume negated my mental hygiene" perhaps?
nah, it's fumigated.
From the lyric book:
that night I remember what you slipped in my glass we came rewinding when I foamed at the mouth while the lights winked at me and now my shape is kept the rain it can't hide wash the pain from this hex is it so permanent did she catch the left eye when it blinks three times or once just to seal you in in your drunken breath did it stain like us in place of poison heat I gotta rid this world of your intentions swap the corpse in a casket give me that corpse please the one that tore nightly I really want it now fold the arms slowly don’t want you to hold me if fits just like a glove does it make you feel alright when I seep inside your truth through suspicious little coughs you sink your nails inside a key while the door you shut closed up the black stockings you kept smell of wet cigarettes torn of lust that you could not keep I have slept inside your fault to have you keep me here on this leash for the rest of your pets I will feed to the theft as we consummate the vows of defeat and when you pray for an end to this I do believe this is eternity give me that corpse please the one that tore nightly I really want it now fold the arms slowly don’t want you to hold me if fits just like a glove your closet is bulging white marrow withholding does it make you feel alright? never heard a man speak like this man before never heard a man speak like this man before all the days of my life ever since I’ve been born never heard a man speak like this man before watch me now say it loud hold your heavy burden in a pocket full of drink that I’ve drunk spit the remnants in your direction this is the closest to any kingdom that you will come I’m starting to feel a miscarriage coming on it's numbing a stump clearing in my throat and I just can't lose grip of it she fumigates my mental hygiene I’m all out of pulse but I know you can resuscitate me never heard a man speak like this man before never heard a man speak like this man before all the days of my life ever since I been born never heard a man speak like this man before watch me now
I'm not so sure if the entire song would be considered a reference to Jim Jones, I think they put that in there to give us an idea of what they went through with the soothsayer. Sometimes dealing with the unknown we are inclined to give them names of things we are familiar with. I think it's just another way that The Mars Volta is trying to portray something profoundly cryptic to the public. Doing a damn good job I must say.