The Stephen Hawking

Wow. This is it. This is the cut. Thanks Max Bemis.

"And you're the new Christ of what will suffice, the Satan to your savior" "Allah strapped tight to a stolen nuke" and in the ending it's "shred your lids" rather than legs

same way he plays with the lyrics on "Burn a Miracle" (burn america!) he plays with them on here ("if you're the sun i'm a black hole/son OF A black hole)

that being said...damn. one of their best songs...ever. the "basking in the blood of a dying star" verse is too kickass, and Max screaming the aforementioned line, along with "there's just something in the way you burn..." is amazing.

again, wish i knew who/what this was really about but as it is, the best on the album and one of the best ever by Max.

here are the official lyrics from off of their website. there are just a few minor corrections in them:

"I watch you hit the stage like a willing bomb strapped to crippled children. It’s hard to watch you whore out your damaged pride. I spit on what you’re building. We rally in the bowels of a sweaty club. Prepare for insurrections And all the dead souls that you would control ARE bound for resurrections. Your father was a lover and he left you there in need of their attention. You fill his blank page with the brightest shame, The death of all invention. IF you’re the new Christ of what will suffice, I'M* Satan to your savior. So sing it out loud if you don’t believe in lies and good behavior: “If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole. There must be something in the way you burn that makes me lose control.”

I’m happy to report that, THOUGH LIFE IS SHORT, I'M living it to ashes. I might have had a few but I grip the wheel and now I’m speeding past this SO if you should approach with your blue and white AND* attempt to pull me over, I have a few words for the weak of heart, the solemn and the sober.

Basking in the glow of a dying star. Bowing down blind TO the scum you are. Take a little second just to hear me out. Marching off a cliff like you’re free of doubt. You’re Jesus growing fat off of Roman gold, Moses making up the commandments told, ALLAH strapped tight to a stolen nuke OR* Elvis in a pool of his royal puke. You’ll never be alive because you sold your soul. I don’t even want to take you home tonight.

You’ll bleed to feed the demon in me If you don’t change your evil ways and end this peacefully. I beg you before you’re digested, shred your LIDS* and see. You won’t curry favor with that flavor, curried tastefully. I’ll swallow you and grind you up and you will cease to be. I can’t let this go with you."

I think this song is very much against radical religion. It makes me think about the fact that a lot of the bad things in this world are fueled by beliefs that people have on how life should be lived. I feel the need to live a little more recklessly after hearing this song. Instead of burning out in my self-policing on beliefs that were invented, I want to take everything in and consume it until it's gone. I don't want to worry about whose beliefs are right and whose beliefs are false that drive people crazy. I just want to live life in a blur of moments and not waste anymore time worrying about what will happen afterwards. In the end, I think that that's what God (or whatever divine being you might believe in) does and wants us to do. He doesn't care so much about what we believe in specifically as long as we live with love of life and love of the living. I don't know, these are just the thoughts I have in my head as I listen to this.

Does anyone know why the song is named The Stephen Hawking?

lina182, I think its because this song is about how we are put here to live our lives and not worry about what others might think of us or how we act. And idk if you know much about Stephen Hawking but he was not supposed to live past like 15 or something and hes like 50 and is one of the greatest minds in our history. Just not listening at all to doctors and such. He has a great motivational speech. Also coupled with the fact he makes space puns. Classic Bemis dual meaning.