In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Comes the light
Comes the flame
Comes the child who is
Come the sword
Come the flame
Come the end of bliss's reign
Come the dawn
Come the day
Wake the softest soul up
Come the fire
Come the change
Lick the rose of Venus' shame
Come the night
Come the death
Down the path out of
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven come
And seven go
And seven
Still remain, yea
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven on the grandest scale
And seven
Still remain, yea, remain
And the light
And the flame
Take the path on
And the night
And the day
Fall upon the knees of
And the child
In the flames
Cast out of Eden
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven come
And seven go
And seven
Still remain, yea
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven on the grandest scale
And seven
Still remain, yea, yea
Seven on
Seven on
Seven on
Remain, yea
Comes the flame
Comes the child who is
Come the sword
Come the flame
Come the end of bliss's reign
Come the dawn
Come the day
Wake the softest soul up
Come the fire
Come the change
Lick the rose of Venus' shame
Come the night
Come the death
Down the path out of
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven come
And seven go
And seven
Still remain, yea
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven on the grandest scale
And seven
Still remain, yea, remain
And the light
And the flame
Take the path on
And the night
And the day
Fall upon the knees of
And the child
In the flames
Cast out of Eden
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven come
And seven go
And seven
Still remain, yea
Seven
Seven
Seven is my name
Seven on the grandest scale
And seven
Still remain, yea, yea
Seven on
Seven on
Seven on
Remain, yea
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Here's something cool about that. Henley is correct about 777 being the coming of armageddon. Revelation 13:18 names the antichrist as being the number 666. What's cool about these numbers that they are both divisible by thirty-seven and three. If both numbers I just mentioned are multiplied together then you get 111. Watch this...
373 = 111 3732 = 222 3733 = 333 3734 = 444 3735 = 555 3736 = 666 3737 = 777 3738 = 888 373*9 = 999
and so on into the infinite void. Math is the greatest subject of all time because it's ordered, coherent, and dare I say, as pretty as a field full of lilies. Solomon's robes could never match a field full of lilies or the complexities of the Sierpinski gasket. That's sweetness at its finest. Math and music both fucking rock. I like things that start with M.
it is the best Danzig song ever
Great song
i think persoanlly, i may nto be right, i think this song is about the coming of the antichrist, like many of danzigs songs, and also the last line, cast out of eden.....wasnt cain cast out of eden?, im not a bible not so i dont know.....but it sounds to me like hes tlkaing bout the coming fo the antichrist.....correct me if im wrong
It's about armageddon, not the coming of the antichrist. 777 is armageddon.
Decently warped sounding song, I must say?
another song from Danzig about the end of the world and the coming Apocolypse.. check out the Samhein song "Archangel" for another example.
Numerological stuff like that is cool; I wish I didn't hate math.
Perhaps it's about seven babies facing death at seven years old.
The song is about Cain's journey through life and his eventual death. Seven is also mention the descendant/sevenfold curse. (Which in the sense of who killed him is apocalyptic in and of itself.)