My general understanding is that every good poem or short story has an ambigious ending and the reason they are so good is because you can relate to them so easily, with that being said, I wish he would say everyone of these songs meant one thing and we are either right or wrong about them
I did get a different picture about this, I think he switches the narrator from himself viewing america, america viewing god, and what god thinks viewing america; reguardless of what Keith believes in.
Line 1: The great American mischief has muted our hearts and our rhythms are met with the inharmonious grunts of electric guitars. - Maybe underground or outcast music such as theirs countering popular american beleifs.
Line 2: Its all but too much, Nobody beleives the obscene are reprieved. - It all comes back to bite you in the ass
Alot of jumble i dont understand or at least cant comment on
"I've been begging you for less mercy than this" - This is tricky to me but I beleive that it means we might not even be content with things that we should be. We take things for granted. Great line though.
Another tricky "Cast aside our clothes like funeral roses and dance straight through the psalm" - Blindly following an interpretion of a religion, resulting in us being brain dead or unable to think for ourselves, we might as well be dead.
Something i cant interpret but love, "I'm dead in the water, dont come for me, I was once alive in the deserts' eyes on the day it wed the sea" But i do think this has something to do with prehistoric times or ancient times because the song keeps referncing pre recorded history depending on what religion you look at.
"Drew a chalk outline around your city" -I'm gonna take this at face value, I'm gonna fuck a sinful city up, Like Sodom and Gamorrah in the book of Genesis
All of this "There is so much shame in how little we've gained for so long. Now the sky is falling. And you're just repeating every word I say. You are not listening close enough. It's a catastrophe. You have not been concentrating. Pay attention there will be an exam. Build an ark. Come bring us back to the ruin." - To me it seems like Keith thinks god is fedup with America and its pathetic that we havent progressed as much as should have or has even been predicted, I dont know if he's speaking technologically or socially, or culturely with the world. It also seems that we have apparently been givin signs that the apacolpyse is coming "revalations" even though i'm not sure if any of those signs are quoted here. But we are not taking heed to the warning. The exam though is, thats do you pass and go to heaven or are you going to hell. The next two lines I take at face value. "taped off the sky around your city" face value again.
The last two are of course what makes this such an unpredictable and ambigious song, which goes hand and hand with how great it is, he never does finish what happens to "dusted for prints on the chapel wall", somewhat implying god, but"we all know that its killer" could mean we all know what we did to let us end up this way, if indeed the apocalypse is coming reguardless of religion or not, we know we crossed lines of morality more than we should have. And then he states it is him.
This may be a super wack interpretation, and you all may think i'm a crock of shit, but I love this song and I've looked at this site for a while and no body ever had a good explanation, so if anyone can branch of this or even give a better explanation than this please do, even though there could be many explantions to this song, it does seem to me like alot of these peices fit together well. And if it is indeed that him throwing lines together to make something sound cool, then i just wasted a shit ton of time
My general understanding is that every good poem or short story has an ambigious ending and the reason they are so good is because you can relate to them so easily, with that being said, I wish he would say everyone of these songs meant one thing and we are either right or wrong about them
I did get a different picture about this, I think he switches the narrator from himself viewing america, america viewing god, and what god thinks viewing america; reguardless of what Keith believes in.
Line 1: The great American mischief has muted our hearts and our rhythms are met with the inharmonious grunts of electric guitars. - Maybe underground or outcast music such as theirs countering popular american beleifs.
Line 2: Its all but too much, Nobody beleives the obscene are reprieved. - It all comes back to bite you in the ass
Alot of jumble i dont understand or at least cant comment on
"I've been begging you for less mercy than this" - This is tricky to me but I beleive that it means we might not even be content with things that we should be. We take things for granted. Great line though.
Another tricky "Cast aside our clothes like funeral roses and dance straight through the psalm" - Blindly following an interpretion of a religion, resulting in us being brain dead or unable to think for ourselves, we might as well be dead.
Something i cant interpret but love, "I'm dead in the water, dont come for me, I was once alive in the deserts' eyes on the day it wed the sea" But i do think this has something to do with prehistoric times or ancient times because the song keeps referncing pre recorded history depending on what religion you look at.
"Drew a chalk outline around your city" -I'm gonna take this at face value, I'm gonna fuck a sinful city up, Like Sodom and Gamorrah in the book of Genesis
All of this "There is so much shame in how little we've gained for so long. Now the sky is falling. And you're just repeating every word I say. You are not listening close enough. It's a catastrophe. You have not been concentrating. Pay attention there will be an exam. Build an ark. Come bring us back to the ruin." - To me it seems like Keith thinks god is fedup with America and its pathetic that we havent progressed as much as should have or has even been predicted, I dont know if he's speaking technologically or socially, or culturely with the world. It also seems that we have apparently been givin signs that the apacolpyse is coming "revalations" even though i'm not sure if any of those signs are quoted here. But we are not taking heed to the warning. The exam though is, thats do you pass and go to heaven or are you going to hell. The next two lines I take at face value. "taped off the sky around your city" face value again.
The last two are of course what makes this such an unpredictable and ambigious song, which goes hand and hand with how great it is, he never does finish what happens to "dusted for prints on the chapel wall", somewhat implying god, but"we all know that its killer" could mean we all know what we did to let us end up this way, if indeed the apocalypse is coming reguardless of religion or not, we know we crossed lines of morality more than we should have. And then he states it is him.
This may be a super wack interpretation, and you all may think i'm a crock of shit, but I love this song and I've looked at this site for a while and no body ever had a good explanation, so if anyone can branch of this or even give a better explanation than this please do, even though there could be many explantions to this song, it does seem to me like alot of these peices fit together well. And if it is indeed that him throwing lines together to make something sound cool, then i just wasted a shit ton of time