This is one of my favorite ATG lyrics. While there are no clear meaning (which would clearly have undermined the existential chaos pervayed) the imagery is really intense, and when coppled with themes such as religion, self-destruction and cosmic destruction I am left with a very unique atmosphere.
"Blood-bubbles nestled in thorns" - Blood and thorns yield associations to violence. The blood being bubbles throws in a sense of fragility, them being nestled in pointy thorns, a sense of impending annihilation. A state that can surely not persist. Tension.
The narrator, a cosmic traveller, is now ready "to surrender to the void". A release of tension between himself and the universe. Suicide.
Twisted darkness is beautiful, the light of Christ is not. The light of Christ being described as rape mocks the pure and asexual nature of the Christian ideal.
Individualism, freedom and rebellion in loneliness. Not yielding to the raping social comfort of Christianity.
Humanity dissolved. Sun or animal, star or beast.
The dichotomy (the tension) between himself and the universe is dissolved towards the end. He tears the sky. His self-destruction is likewise a destruction of the cosmos. Worlds end, through a thousand suns.
This is one of my favorite ATG lyrics. While there are no clear meaning (which would clearly have undermined the existential chaos pervayed) the imagery is really intense, and when coppled with themes such as religion, self-destruction and cosmic destruction I am left with a very unique atmosphere. "Blood-bubbles nestled in thorns" - Blood and thorns yield associations to violence. The blood being bubbles throws in a sense of fragility, them being nestled in pointy thorns, a sense of impending annihilation. A state that can surely not persist. Tension. The narrator, a cosmic traveller, is now ready "to surrender to the void". A release of tension between himself and the universe. Suicide. Twisted darkness is beautiful, the light of Christ is not. The light of Christ being described as rape mocks the pure and asexual nature of the Christian ideal. Individualism, freedom and rebellion in loneliness. Not yielding to the raping social comfort of Christianity. Humanity dissolved. Sun or animal, star or beast. The dichotomy (the tension) between himself and the universe is dissolved towards the end. He tears the sky. His self-destruction is likewise a destruction of the cosmos. Worlds end, through a thousand suns.