Most folks side on the fact the self-destruction the character is undergoing is a dependance on drugs.
I agree, a drug is causing the grief experienced throughout, but it is no conventional drug.
This character exemplifies the horrors and atrocities associated with testosterone.
When I first heard the song, I had ignored the title, finding the structure of the song itself very violent and stimulating by nature. The "speaker," methinks, is the drug, the testosterone, or, as I have found to be testosterone's manifestation, the Devil, Satan, Ba'al, whatever you call the polarity of God.
In relation to the rest of the album, I think this is the first song where the character is falling away from God, or, falling away from moral purity, and the fortitude morality gives people.
It seems like a description of mankind, the point of time where man found guilt in what he did. It was at this point this infective testosterone, devil, or drug kept him going, destroying others, but at the same time, destroying the host: The man loses his humanity.
I call this being the devil, alongside the whole testosterone idea, partially because of the idea that the character's religiously distancing himself from God, and because the voice, whatever or whoever speaks to the character, is tempting him. The voice continues to assure him that he is and will be everything, that once you have taken to the devil or testosterone, or lack of moral integrity, nothing matters except the source of what makes you feel good.
Stanzas:
First stanza is entirely about testosterone/devil/drugs. The influence induces sex, violence (which is minimalized into hate), and the uncontrollable nature of this "voice" returning constantly.
I take you where you want to go
I give you all you need to know
(Ignore morals, enjoy the benefits of selfish desire.)
I drag you down
I use you up
(Testosterone/Drugs is/are bodily consuming.)
I am the truth from which you run
(Testosterone is forever, it is man... drugs are addictive.)
I speak religion's message clear
(Is religion's message
"AND I CONTROL YOU."
(Testosterone is easily aggravated into use, whether it be irritation, sex, auditory stimulus, or violence.)
Most folks side on the fact the self-destruction the character is undergoing is a dependance on drugs.
I agree, a drug is causing the grief experienced throughout, but it is no conventional drug.
This character exemplifies the horrors and atrocities associated with testosterone.
When I first heard the song, I had ignored the title, finding the structure of the song itself very violent and stimulating by nature. The "speaker," methinks, is the drug, the testosterone, or, as I have found to be testosterone's manifestation, the Devil, Satan, Ba'al, whatever you call the polarity of God.
In relation to the rest of the album, I think this is the first song where the character is falling away from God, or, falling away from moral purity, and the fortitude morality gives people.
It seems like a description of mankind, the point of time where man found guilt in what he did. It was at this point this infective testosterone, devil, or drug kept him going, destroying others, but at the same time, destroying the host: The man loses his humanity.
I call this being the devil, alongside the whole testosterone idea, partially because of the idea that the character's religiously distancing himself from God, and because the voice, whatever or whoever speaks to the character, is tempting him. The voice continues to assure him that he is and will be everything, that once you have taken to the devil or testosterone, or lack of moral integrity, nothing matters except the source of what makes you feel good.
Stanzas:
First stanza is entirely about testosterone/devil/drugs. The influence induces sex, violence (which is minimalized into hate), and the uncontrollable nature of this "voice" returning constantly.
I take you where you want to go I give you all you need to know (Ignore morals, enjoy the benefits of selfish desire.)
I drag you down I use you up (Testosterone/Drugs is/are bodily consuming.)
I am the truth from which you run (Testosterone is forever, it is man... drugs are addictive.)
I speak religion's message clear (Is religion's message
"AND I CONTROL YOU." (Testosterone is easily aggravated into use, whether it be irritation, sex, auditory stimulus, or violence.)