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mind hemorrhage fuckin' folding chairs in the hallway crucified, paralyzed, you laugh, I cry calculating my miscalculations what is the sign for I'm choking to death? There's something caught in my throat could it be something I've said? Sighted blind, Braille is fine, two black eyes, are you a badass or just a fuckin' asshole? There's too much, not enough God and dog well I've seen a dog I'll take my chances and sleep like a log, hard in the ground, dig? God, dog, God, dog agnostic, insomniac, dyslexic I'm wide awake and I'm wondering if there is a dog
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43 is what the band used for they keyboard settings when they started
There are two versions of this song. Their album XX has the "up to date, revamped" model of the song, however, they have several self-released cd's. The older song seem to have alot of -extras- added in, like a crowd at a baseball game, a preacher ranting, and many other joyful items that... well.. um... fill up time on the cd... heh
It seems to me this song is about being the small voice of opposition against the majority of those who belive in and follow god. Anytime he tries to speak out against what is holy to everyone else, he is told to just shut up and except what they believe. Since he doesnt he is looked upon and something inferior. But he doesnt see himself that way, but rather someone who understands what things are really like. I dont know what the significance is of the number "43", probably some personal meaning to J-Mann or Jeffery Nothing.
I was suprised I was able to pick out something so small, but I thought I would just share, one of the added samples in the longer version of the song is a clip from Silence of the Lambs. The sound clip that says "oh wait" is from the scene in silence when Clarice Starling is at Buffalo Bills house and asks him if he had seen a woman.
"dyslexic I'm wide awake and I'm wondering if there is a dog"
-Dyslexic...dog=god. There ya go...religion is at the heart of a lot of Mushroomhead songs, and this is one of them. Also my favorite song on the album.
"calculating my miscalculations"
-Seems like he's worried he's made the wrong decisions regarding religion...this is further supported by the end "God, dog, God, dog agnostic, insomniac"
"Sighted blind, Braille is fine, two black eyes"
-I think this is talking about how he just can't understand religion, and how anything will help because it's putting so much pain and stress on him.
Now, as for the beginning...I have no idea, nor do I with the chorus. The rest of this could very easily be wrong, but since nobody has really tried to interpret it, in depth I thought I'd give it a try.
if you listen to then entire ending of the song it's actually quite funny
God, dog . . . Agnostic, Insomniac, Dyslexic, I'm wide awake and I'm wondering if there is a dog . .
that's the best line ever.
However, if you guys are really looking to find meaning in these lyrics, (or any Mushroomhead song) you're thinking waaaay too hard. Many of the songs are pieced together from different things that Jeffrey Nothing and J Mann have written at different points in their lives, and simply are pieced together because they like the way that they flow.
I have to agree with StoneKnotSiC666. It's probably about losing his mind over not being able to figure out what life is all about and which religion to follow (if any), and although he has given up believe in anything he cannot see (god), life still sucks, and he needs something to cling to, coz even the things he can actually see and proof (dog) don't make sense to him until he wonders whether even they aren't really see. so that's two black eyes... I don't know, but 43 might refer to the traveller's guide to the galaxy where 42 is the answer to the most important question in the world (the one about god, the world, and everything), but no one has even been able to find the right question. so here it would mean, this guy knows all the answers to be false AND doesn't know where to start finding the most important questions in his life. It really fucks him up so much, he can't even sleep anymore, let alone think straight. It's all different kinda thoughts intertwined, so I find it really hard interpreting Mushroomhead songs. They have almost the most puzzling lyrics around.
In a religious context--43 means,"The prime Number 43 is the third element of the Unity Holograph Generating Set. It is directly associated with a host of identities relating to the Holy Spirit, such as Exceeding Joy = 43, Elohim = 86 = 2 x 43, The Spirit = 946 = 11 x 86 = T(43), and so forth." http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_43.asp
In mathematics 43 is pretty cool too. My favorite is that it's the number of fibonacci primes under 1 mil. And the fibonacci sequence (or golden ratio) is seen by some as related to God. http://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php/43.html
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heh, yeah.. i like the beginning.. " I don't need god " i had to have played that part over and over for 2 min.