Sorry Vampirella666, but this song ain't that much about personal emotions.. I'm certain of that since this is a song from 'the Embrace that Smothers'-serie, which is a serie of songs who critizise religion.
This song is actually the 1st song in this serie, and I love all the song from the serie. Intresting bit to the latin parts in these lyrics is that they are actually repeating the lines from the prologue.. wait.. wtf? who forgot to add the latin lines :|
Well.. here they are then:
"Sicut erat in principio
et nunc et semper et insaecula
saeculorum"
(this is repeated twice in the song, between the two 2-lined paragraphs)
Well, of course I'll explain this latin bit first. It literally means "Like He was in the beginning and shall be for now and forever"
These are prays to Jesus Christ.
In Mea Culpa, the prologue to this song, you see that
we ask jesus to save us from our mistakes (mea culpa means 'my fault')
Which finally brings me to the meaning of this song..
Christianity is the leaden legacy. It scrared our history in ways we can't describe.
The chorus says something like "jesus, we lost the true faith ages ago.. we dissapointed you and made a mess of it"
This brings to another interpretation of the title.. christ gave us a legacy, but we abused it so it became heavy on us :P
But this ain't suddenly a pro-jesus song..
No, it's more about we lost the insight of what true faith is and we now follow indoctrination. Which what is the Embrace that Smothers is all about.
And it doesn't matter whether you would chance from faith.. from religion, since all modern day relgions are like that.. all are indoctrinating, all have a history stained with blood. Just read the lines:
"Those who separate and join the opposite
do not see that that will get them nowhere
Can't you understand it is a similar manipulation"
Now the time has come to see what true faith is.. we must the truth, the light.. and stop crawling like dogs and slaves for the church and similiar systems.
Sorry Vampirella666, but this song ain't that much about personal emotions.. I'm certain of that since this is a song from 'the Embrace that Smothers'-serie, which is a serie of songs who critizise religion.
This song is actually the 1st song in this serie, and I love all the song from the serie. Intresting bit to the latin parts in these lyrics is that they are actually repeating the lines from the prologue.. wait.. wtf? who forgot to add the latin lines :|
Well.. here they are then:
"Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et insaecula saeculorum" (this is repeated twice in the song, between the two 2-lined paragraphs)
Well, of course I'll explain this latin bit first. It literally means "Like He was in the beginning and shall be for now and forever" These are prays to Jesus Christ.
In Mea Culpa, the prologue to this song, you see that we ask jesus to save us from our mistakes (mea culpa means 'my fault')
Which finally brings me to the meaning of this song..
Christianity is the leaden legacy. It scrared our history in ways we can't describe. The chorus says something like "jesus, we lost the true faith ages ago.. we dissapointed you and made a mess of it" This brings to another interpretation of the title.. christ gave us a legacy, but we abused it so it became heavy on us :P
But this ain't suddenly a pro-jesus song.. No, it's more about we lost the insight of what true faith is and we now follow indoctrination. Which what is the Embrace that Smothers is all about.
And it doesn't matter whether you would chance from faith.. from religion, since all modern day relgions are like that.. all are indoctrinating, all have a history stained with blood. Just read the lines: "Those who separate and join the opposite do not see that that will get them nowhere Can't you understand it is a similar manipulation"
Now the time has come to see what true faith is.. we must the truth, the light.. and stop crawling like dogs and slaves for the church and similiar systems.
@SnowballInExtremum excellent explanation, thanks
@SnowballInExtremum excellent explanation, thanks