Deliverance

The song doesn’t seem to make much sense or have context at first. However, he says that “Deliverance soon is coming” and then proceeds to mention that he kills Thanatos, the Greek Mythological personification of death. Now going back to the first paragraph of the song, it is likely that he is defying Thanatos and is resisting his death. He feels “indisposed” which could be a result of Thanatos’s intention to kill him. He conveys that the greatness of soul gets destroyed (probably by Thanatos). It is also said in Greek Mythology that Thanatos wields an inverted torch, representing an extinguished life, which may be why the songwriter says “Normalize what’s in your hands.” Deliverance is his gift to humanity and it seems that it is an important event that will be looked upon from the future, likely meaning it will be spoken of in literature. After killing Thanatos, the lines, “Feel the ground under your feet. The roots so deep,” indicate the attachment to the Earth, not literally, but in the sense that without death, humanity may be able to connect with life. In the lines, “Every step I chose to make. Was just a kind of torture,” he uses past tense to indicate that how he felt before the death of Thanatos. “I changed my ways. Now positive the fear became.” He changed his perspective and decided he was not going to fear death, but face and kill the embodiment of it. In the paragraph that follows, “Can’t control my arms…” I believe he is still undergoing the effects of Thanatos’s power. The final paragraph reads, “I hate the taste of my lost illusions. I choose to live for the only Reasons I felt on the ground. I want to try.” This final part can indicate 2 different things a.) He lives for the fear that there will be another higher being that punishes him because he does not feel satisfied with the death of Thanatos. b.) Based on the idea of him still remaining under Thanatos’s torture even after Thanatos’s death, he lives for the feeling of the pain which had brought him to the ground. The pain he bears is a reminder of his perceived success.