This might help, quotes from Peter Gabriel regarding the part of the story in this song:
"Which in turn led up to a spiral staircase into a chamber with 32 doors, none of which would get any of them anywhere."
Peter Gabriel: "And it all led up to a spiral staircase which in turn led into a chamber with 32 doors, none of which went anywhere but back in the chamber."
The carpet crawlers are in a corridor, heading towards a spiral staircase that they think will free them, but it only leads them to the chamber of 32 doors. None of the doors lead the people to "heaven" or whatever they are looking for. The doors only lead back to seperate corridors, and so on.
One last piece of info: Rael while in the chamber, rather than trying all the doors to escape, instead decides to help a blind woman (the lilly white lilith) this desicion ineffitably leads to his escape from this "dream". Rather than trying to find his way out of the chamber like all the others, he essential gives up, and just helps someone.
These IMO are all metapohric references to a spiritual journey.
@meddlehead40
I love this. Thank you. It makes far more sense to me than all the "sperm to the egg" analogies. I realize you wrote this back in '08, but I'm glad you did. It's a beautiful song and the lyrics evoked to me, what you said so well.
@meddlehead40
I love this. Thank you. It makes far more sense to me than all the "sperm to the egg" analogies. I realize you wrote this back in '08, but I'm glad you did. It's a beautiful song and the lyrics evoked to me, what you said so well.
This might help, quotes from Peter Gabriel regarding the part of the story in this song:
"Which in turn led up to a spiral staircase into a chamber with 32 doors, none of which would get any of them anywhere."
Peter Gabriel: "And it all led up to a spiral staircase which in turn led into a chamber with 32 doors, none of which went anywhere but back in the chamber."
The carpet crawlers are in a corridor, heading towards a spiral staircase that they think will free them, but it only leads them to the chamber of 32 doors. None of the doors lead the people to "heaven" or whatever they are looking for. The doors only lead back to seperate corridors, and so on.
One last piece of info: Rael while in the chamber, rather than trying all the doors to escape, instead decides to help a blind woman (the lilly white lilith) this desicion ineffitably leads to his escape from this "dream". Rather than trying to find his way out of the chamber like all the others, he essential gives up, and just helps someone.
These IMO are all metapohric references to a spiritual journey.
@meddlehead40 I love this. Thank you. It makes far more sense to me than all the "sperm to the egg" analogies. I realize you wrote this back in '08, but I'm glad you did. It's a beautiful song and the lyrics evoked to me, what you said so well.
@meddlehead40 I love this. Thank you. It makes far more sense to me than all the "sperm to the egg" analogies. I realize you wrote this back in '08, but I'm glad you did. It's a beautiful song and the lyrics evoked to me, what you said so well.