'Miss Murder' is death\inevitability. 'She' seduces, gives birth, serves as a vessel of transition, stalks, waits, forcibly kills, etc.
'Beauty' is a codeword for the aesthetic.. An ideal of perfection.
The singer is therefore asking if his death will spare his ideals.
The bulk of the song is about the loss of a powerful figure of this ideal who both arrived and left with a 'crash' - vanishing from the world and leaving his followers behind.. Such that all we have left are stories and reflections of this ideal 'spiraling down' - immortalized through history.. but it's not enough, and it closes with the statement that the ghost of this ideal will fizzle out hopelessly because, although we search in our meaningless quandry, our leader has abandoned us.
The lyrics are obviously about Jesus (verse 31 is only relevent in that context) but not only Jesus. The video paints a very different picture: of another leader (Hitler) in his public and private life caught within the above dilemma. 'Miss Murder' is portrayed as a woman in red, and the 'Beauty' is portrayed by a rabbit (and writings of this rabbit), symbolising gentleness or innocence. (A lamb would have been obvious, expensive, and out of place.) Toward the end of the video the duality begins to solidify as the singer becomes gets closer to 'Miss Murder' and we witness the death of the rabbit(?) - Indicating that the beautiful vision has died and Murder is all that is left. The lyrics, then, contain a double-meaning of Hitler asking his enemies if they will spare his vision if he kills himself, and the aftermath of his suicide.
The overarching theme these leaders had in common is Arianism and that awkward alternation between Man and God, Secular and Divine, evidenced in both of their speeches. In the video we see this in the image of the rabbit 'issuing from the mouth' of the 'prophet', and in the transition from private to public (common in political manipulation). Even the layering of lyrics & video reflects this. (Lyrics\Video -> Words\Actions -> Ideal\Real -> Spirit\Body -> Heaven\Earth -> God\Man)
The actual singer is relating himself to Hitler in this sense while singing about this concept of Christ. Like those men, he is a public face with followers and suffering through a similar inner-struggle between two natures.. But with the realization that God is not here, and the consequences of that realization to the self, and to the world, he finds himself losing faith.. So he's asking if he can retain his ideals by killing himself - rather than suffer to watch himself become an anti-Christ. (and also asking if he will be saved for doing this.)
(Note also that the Jews suffered persection by the Romans in Jesus' time, by the Christians in the middle ages, and again under Hitler. The forgotten promise of abraham, and God's absence has been a repeated theme in Jewish history. The only problem with this is the allusion to suicide which doesn't quite fit.)
The song seems to be about spiritual dichotomy.
'Miss Murder' is death\inevitability. 'She' seduces, gives birth, serves as a vessel of transition, stalks, waits, forcibly kills, etc. 'Beauty' is a codeword for the aesthetic.. An ideal of perfection. The singer is therefore asking if his death will spare his ideals.
The bulk of the song is about the loss of a powerful figure of this ideal who both arrived and left with a 'crash' - vanishing from the world and leaving his followers behind.. Such that all we have left are stories and reflections of this ideal 'spiraling down' - immortalized through history.. but it's not enough, and it closes with the statement that the ghost of this ideal will fizzle out hopelessly because, although we search in our meaningless quandry, our leader has abandoned us.
The lyrics are obviously about Jesus (verse 31 is only relevent in that context) but not only Jesus. The video paints a very different picture: of another leader (Hitler) in his public and private life caught within the above dilemma. 'Miss Murder' is portrayed as a woman in red, and the 'Beauty' is portrayed by a rabbit (and writings of this rabbit), symbolising gentleness or innocence. (A lamb would have been obvious, expensive, and out of place.) Toward the end of the video the duality begins to solidify as the singer becomes gets closer to 'Miss Murder' and we witness the death of the rabbit(?) - Indicating that the beautiful vision has died and Murder is all that is left. The lyrics, then, contain a double-meaning of Hitler asking his enemies if they will spare his vision if he kills himself, and the aftermath of his suicide.
The overarching theme these leaders had in common is Arianism and that awkward alternation between Man and God, Secular and Divine, evidenced in both of their speeches. In the video we see this in the image of the rabbit 'issuing from the mouth' of the 'prophet', and in the transition from private to public (common in political manipulation). Even the layering of lyrics & video reflects this. (Lyrics\Video -> Words\Actions -> Ideal\Real -> Spirit\Body -> Heaven\Earth -> God\Man)
The actual singer is relating himself to Hitler in this sense while singing about this concept of Christ. Like those men, he is a public face with followers and suffering through a similar inner-struggle between two natures.. But with the realization that God is not here, and the consequences of that realization to the self, and to the world, he finds himself losing faith.. So he's asking if he can retain his ideals by killing himself - rather than suffer to watch himself become an anti-Christ. (and also asking if he will be saved for doing this.)
(Note also that the Jews suffered persection by the Romans in Jesus' time, by the Christians in the middle ages, and again under Hitler. The forgotten promise of abraham, and God's absence has been a repeated theme in Jewish history. The only problem with this is the allusion to suicide which doesn't quite fit.)