This song appears to be about a person who addresses another, but he is actually talking to himself. He can’t stand his way of life and feels he has nothing left to offer, so he wants to take his own life. Throughout the song, he is implying that he needs help and begs for sanity. He is so depressed that he states, “There’s nothing left for me” and a gunshot is heard at the end of the song, which makes it appear as though he just committed suicide.
After about ten minutes, a “hidden track” begins with sounds of organ music, and people are moving around and coughing in a large church. The occasion is a funeral. Selections from the Scriptures and a funeral prayer to the gathered living are read. After that, the speaking becomes incomprehensible and demonic sounding voices. I think this indicates the suicide victim’s descent into hell.
Psalm 121:
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalm 23:
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Funeral prayer:
Oh God, who art full of compassion, thou who dwellest on high. Grant perfect rest beneath the shelter of thy divine presence. In the exalted places among the holy and the pure who shine as the brightness of the firmament to all those who have gone to their eternal home. The piety of whose life forms the subject of our meditation today. We beseech thee oh Lord with compassion. Shelter them evermore under the cover of thy wings and let their souls be bound up with bond of life. May they repose in peace, may they rest in peace, and let us say Amen.
This song appears to be about a person who addresses another, but he is actually talking to himself. He can’t stand his way of life and feels he has nothing left to offer, so he wants to take his own life. Throughout the song, he is implying that he needs help and begs for sanity. He is so depressed that he states, “There’s nothing left for me” and a gunshot is heard at the end of the song, which makes it appear as though he just committed suicide.
After about ten minutes, a “hidden track” begins with sounds of organ music, and people are moving around and coughing in a large church. The occasion is a funeral. Selections from the Scriptures and a funeral prayer to the gathered living are read. After that, the speaking becomes incomprehensible and demonic sounding voices. I think this indicates the suicide victim’s descent into hell.
Psalm 121: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Funeral prayer: Oh God, who art full of compassion, thou who dwellest on high. Grant perfect rest beneath the shelter of thy divine presence. In the exalted places among the holy and the pure who shine as the brightness of the firmament to all those who have gone to their eternal home. The piety of whose life forms the subject of our meditation today. We beseech thee oh Lord with compassion. Shelter them evermore under the cover of thy wings and let their souls be bound up with bond of life. May they repose in peace, may they rest in peace, and let us say Amen.