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This Spiteful Snake Lyrics
Reality, this spiteful snake
Rearing its ugly head
Venom dripping from its grin
As it tosses yet another obstacle in our way
If given a thousand years to collect
To process, to portray
We could never encompass the voracity
Of one single day
Trapping us in its winding
Its closing malignant cycles
A tightening coil to bind us
Hold us tight in unforgiving embrace
Its all-engulfing jaws, infinite, boundless
Biting down on the dying flesh of hope
Its fiery breath levelling, dismantling
Flattening, tearing down the structures of our dreams
Overcome, defeated
Terrified, shivering, mute
Reality is terror, this truth is absolute
Reality, this spiteful snake
Shedding its smothering veil
A shroud to asphyxiate
Exterminate, eradicate
Rearing its ugly head
Venom dripping from its grin
As it tosses yet another obstacle in our way
To process, to portray
We could never encompass the voracity
Of one single day
Its closing malignant cycles
A tightening coil to bind us
Hold us tight in unforgiving embrace
Biting down on the dying flesh of hope
Its fiery breath levelling, dismantling
Flattening, tearing down the structures of our dreams
Terrified, shivering, mute
Reality is terror, this truth is absolute
Shedding its smothering veil
A shroud to asphyxiate
Exterminate, eradicate
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I guess the simplistic explanation would be "life's a bitch," but Haake reminds us that it's much, much worse. Reality is a merciless monstrosity whose grip is inescapable. We are impotent subjects of Its callousness. Talk about grim.
It's a good thing Meshuggah's music is so cathartic, or else this would be kind of depressing.
I think its a bit more than that, because they say: If given a thousand years to collect To process, to portray We could never encompass the voracity Of one single day
So, seen its Meshuggah, I think its a bit more than the human way of lifes a bitch (even though its worse like u said)
I agree. I'd also like to add that in this song reality isn't just an external agent of evil that kills everything - it IS the death of everything. It doesn't need any leverage to accomplish that goal, since everybody and everything is already abolished in the transcendental laws that govern reality. So the source of everything is a nothingess or a void that makes all hope causally vain. This song is a grim reminder of the things we try to actively forget as much as possible, for quite obvious psychological reasons.
This is the drones occasional glimpses at what he saw in Combustion, but his rewired mind is programmed to be repulsed by them. Like every other song, it weaves into social, philosophical or psychological critisicm, as stated above.
Samsara ('its closing malignant cycles') immediately comes to mind.