I think this song is about the mess that organized religion is today. They use the bear as a symbol to show fear for God "With a speech like god so dark and foreboding" and "I’d growl up your fears from down below".
It then refers to the building walls around our neighbors due to religious differences:
"Laying bricks, growing walls, clicking stone"
and religion speaking out/protesting:
"And the sound that's awful in our ears
Forcing sprouts and speaking out "
Then it talks from the perspective of God "if I were a god" and refers to the "tangled mess" the world is in and shows examples of the hateful acts being committed in the name of God:
"...protests burned
And ears that bleed in rivers through the pipes
That heat your homes and families’ plates"
I think this song is about the mess that organized religion is today. They use the bear as a symbol to show fear for God "With a speech like god so dark and foreboding" and "I’d growl up your fears from down below".
It then refers to the building walls around our neighbors due to religious differences:
"Laying bricks, growing walls, clicking stone"
and religion speaking out/protesting:
"And the sound that's awful in our ears Forcing sprouts and speaking out "
Then it talks from the perspective of God "if I were a god" and refers to the "tangled mess" the world is in and shows examples of the hateful acts being committed in the name of God:
"...protests burned And ears that bleed in rivers through the pipes That heat your homes and families’ plates"