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Shibboleth Lyrics
Authority from the Christian constructs
Suffuse creativity with guilt
Without which we cannot curb our instincts to abominate it all
With a chop to the Adam's apple, commemorate your soul
Right angles, triangles
No forgiveness
Ironic, Byronic postmark glue
Get your guard on!
Son of the Lord as symbolic death drive
Suffered and died so that we can give
Dud ammunition so you can criticize and eulogize it all
I'm a connoisseur of scrapple, alone as someone else
Right angles, triangles
No forgiveness
Ironic, Byronic
Postmark glue
Get your guard on!
Suffuse creativity with guilt
Without which we cannot curb our instincts to abominate it all
With a chop to the Adam's apple, commemorate your soul
No forgiveness
Ironic, Byronic postmark glue
Get your guard on!
Suffered and died so that we can give
Dud ammunition so you can criticize and eulogize it all
I'm a connoisseur of scrapple, alone as someone else
No forgiveness
Ironic, Byronic
Postmark glue
Get your guard on!
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Submitted by
verdantfixture On Oct 11, 2015
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No comments huh? Yeah this song is cool. Right angles/ triangles? Like the right angles formed by the cross vs the triangles forming the Jewish Star? Well, and the triangle of the Trinity, I guess. And then the song is called Shibboleth. That's a Hebrew word about Christian stuff. I don't really get the connection between the lyrics and the definition. It was a word that, when pronounced, would distinguish a person's nationality based on how they pronounced it. Basically a code word.
What else? There's a bunch of stuff here that seems critical of Christian interpretations of the New Testament. And then a reference to Lord Byron, maybe? I didn't read much of his stuff in school, more of a Blake and Coleridge man, myself.
Also, again, no third verse to make this song truly complete. So many artists put out songs with really interesting concepts and ideas that seem almost complete, but the lack of a stellar final verse to put things on its head a la Dylan...it's a lost art. Oh God, here I am getting obsessed with threes like a proper Christian, which I swear I'm not. Not that it should matter.