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Cullorblind Lyrics

Under a cave-in beaten
Educated and believes
Unload a gun the sun
Into the breach from which it came

Aside from writing walls up
Put on as if facts to see
Reactions cause deferral
From a passed on future's needs

Pissing on clocks uncertain
Heavy breathing can he breathe
This test is way past stress points
Pushes buttons full release

They change the world for certain
Meaning and false profits made
We're spending all the future
Future's never ours to see

Hang it up
(Spin with contented vision)
Back it out
(Put it back in its place)
Fade for what my black eyes colorize

Pack it up
(Stop losing opposition)
Shake it out
(Putting up with this place)
Stained bloodied eyes red full of lies colorize

Fade out in one act
Overturning neverending dream
All coming caught up in
The moments we can never see

Aside from writing walls up
(Forever hating)
Put on as if facts to see
(Forever getting)
Reactions cause deferral
(Forever taking taking...)
From a passed on future's needs

Hang it up
(Spin with contented vision)
Back it out
(Put it back in its place)
Shade for what my black eyes colorize

Pack it up
(Stop losing opposition)
Shake it out
(Putting up with this place)
Stained bloodied eyes red full of lies colorize

The party's lost a lot of cash and forest for the trees
They've made a mistake and I'm never older than my trees

Eyes gonna hate
Want want wanna wanna wake up
Wanna wanna wake up

Eyes don't hate what
Wanna wanna wake up
Wanna wake up
Wanna wanna wake up

Eyes gonna hate that
Wanna wanna wake up
Eyes gonna hate that
Wanna wanna wake up

Eyes don't fake that
Wanna want to make up

Otherwise face it
Ever ever...
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theserenade On Nov 01, 2011
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Cover art for Cullorblind lyrics by Skinny Puppy

I think this is one of the more political ones off the album, veering heavily towards the OhGr side of things. A lot of it seems to be about the future, particularly of the United States, but also of the rest of the world.

"Aside from writing walls up Put on as if facts to see"

"The writing is on the wall", though the writing is missing (but the facts are there if you look). The warnings have been made re: global warming, a corrupt financial system, the loss of the US' position of global dominance to China, etc, etc

"Reactions cause deferral From a passed on future's needs"

Reactions to those warnings are strong and emotional (e.g. climate change denialists, apologists for the bankers, advocates of sabre-rattling at China). These reactions divert political debate from what matters, deferring discussion about the needs of the future world for our selfish immediate needs. All our generation cares about is that it continues "forever getting, forever hating, forever taking, taking..."

"They change(d) the world for certain Bringing in false profits made We're spending all the future Future's never ours to see"

Fairly blunt, this. We're spending the wealth and resources of future generations now. The standard cop-out is "I don't care, I won't be alive anyway."

"Fade out in one act Overturning neverending dream All coming caught up in The moments we can never see"

Could be about the economic crisis of 2008 -- fading out quickly (in one act), overturning the "never ending dream", which might be infinite growth economics, or even the American Dream.

"The party's lost a lot of cash and forest for the trees"

Political party? Which one? Both? (They both seem complicit in the financial crisis.) Or maybe the "party" of lavish lifestyles lived on credit... Forest for the trees is pretty blatant too, coming back to the image of divisive emotional reactions to smaller issues distracting from the larger ones.

"Eyes gonna hate that Wanna wanna wake up"

Wake up from what? I would suggest the American Dream...

My Interpretation

I like this interpretation generally, but Skinny Puppy being a Canadian band I'm not sure it would be so Americanized... then again, Canadians love to diss America :P.

They live in California now, and have since the 90s.

Cover art for Cullorblind lyrics by Skinny Puppy

I think this song is more generally criticizing a modern society that sees the world (both morally and "scientifically", for lack of a better word), in black and white. Saying that that's dream logic, and society needs to wake up.

Wake up, free men... wake up and smell the ashes :P.

My Interpretation

Sry, the end should be "Wake up, free men... wake up and smell the Ashas." XD

 
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