Damn... de-constructing this song will be fun...I believe it's all about life and death, and about the absurdity of our fear of death and belief that only one religion is "true". First of all, the opening line of "So first thing's first if you didn't know. That thing in the hearse is a fucking joke." is addressing the fact that the body is a mere host for either an immortal soul, or an immortal consciousness. This consciousness carries over to the next life, and could be something as simple as that once you die, you just go on having dreams and nightmares for all eternity inside your own mind. In the case of the immortal soul, you go onto a spiritual plain of some sort. The line "The truth of minds that dwell above is a plan to kill the dove." "The truth of minds that dwell above"is a line that I think further shows how insignificant he's trying to portray human flesh as being. The line about a "plan to kill a dove" I can only interpret as being about dissolving all religions into a general recognition that they are all the same. Doves are a common religious theme, as they are "pure."
He goes on to say "But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave." Just when we finally get to know someone, when they finally "appear" to you, they die or "fade." We are expected to believe that they are simply waiting in a graveyard, or "froze" there, where their names are "engraved" on a headstone.
Damn... de-constructing this song will be fun...I believe it's all about life and death, and about the absurdity of our fear of death and belief that only one religion is "true". First of all, the opening line of "So first thing's first if you didn't know. That thing in the hearse is a fucking joke." is addressing the fact that the body is a mere host for either an immortal soul, or an immortal consciousness. This consciousness carries over to the next life, and could be something as simple as that once you die, you just go on having dreams and nightmares for all eternity inside your own mind. In the case of the immortal soul, you go onto a spiritual plain of some sort. The line "The truth of minds that dwell above is a plan to kill the dove." "The truth of minds that dwell above"is a line that I think further shows how insignificant he's trying to portray human flesh as being. The line about a "plan to kill a dove" I can only interpret as being about dissolving all religions into a general recognition that they are all the same. Doves are a common religious theme, as they are "pure."
He goes on to say "But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave." Just when we finally get to know someone, when they finally "appear" to you, they die or "fade." We are expected to believe that they are simply waiting in a graveyard, or "froze" there, where their names are "engraved" on a headstone.