A father and a son in an airplane. They are going to see thier wife/mother on her birthday. Apparently, God doesn't like that humans ascending to the sky by themselves (ex. the Tower of Babel), so he decides to kill the child and take his soul by sending winds to cause the airplane to crash. The father, frightened, grabs his son to himself and ends up squeezing him to death. And in that way, the child ascends to heaven and becomes God's child...
Truly a sad tale. I think this may be a (negative) commentary on Christian ideas. Often when a person dies in an accident, people say "they are with God now", or that God has decided it is thier time. This song reminds me of this, so perhaps it is ment to be an example of how selfish and destructive God is. There is also an interesting symbolism concerning male and female in this song. In the beginning, they are going to visit "mother". They are very close, and fall into a deep, warm sleep (the womb; sleep is associated with the unconsciousness, both are associated with the feminine), but God (male) doesn't like this and "shakes the human cargo awake". The lines "Heaven take back the wind
Bring us unharmed to earth" also support this as, pretty much universally, earth has been associated with the feminine. The voices say to the liittle boy "Come here, stay here, we are your brothers. The sons father ends up killing him...Uhm, my point? I don't know... -
A father and a son in an airplane. They are going to see thier wife/mother on her birthday. Apparently, God doesn't like that humans ascending to the sky by themselves (ex. the Tower of Babel), so he decides to kill the child and take his soul by sending winds to cause the airplane to crash. The father, frightened, grabs his son to himself and ends up squeezing him to death. And in that way, the child ascends to heaven and becomes God's child...
Truly a sad tale. I think this may be a (negative) commentary on Christian ideas. Often when a person dies in an accident, people say "they are with God now", or that God has decided it is thier time. This song reminds me of this, so perhaps it is ment to be an example of how selfish and destructive God is. There is also an interesting symbolism concerning male and female in this song. In the beginning, they are going to visit "mother". They are very close, and fall into a deep, warm sleep (the womb; sleep is associated with the unconsciousness, both are associated with the feminine), but God (male) doesn't like this and "shakes the human cargo awake". The lines "Heaven take back the wind Bring us unharmed to earth" also support this as, pretty much universally, earth has been associated with the feminine. The voices say to the liittle boy "Come here, stay here, we are your brothers. The sons father ends up killing him...Uhm, my point? I don't know... -