I read into the story of Rasputin and it really helps to clarify a lot of the meaning here. The lyrics deal with the planned assassination of Grigori Rasputin by Prince Felix Yusupov.
"Don't stay run away
He has ordered assassination
The henchmen are gathered and waitin"
Yusupov ordered the assassination and Rasputin was invited to the Moika Palace, where they planned to poison him ("Enemies poison deep within my second sight"). The poisoning apparently didn't work and Yusupov was forced to shoot him instead. However the story goes that he survived the initial shooting and tried to strangle Yusupov until the henchman had to shoot him three additional times.
As if the poisoning and four bullets weren't enough, they tossed him into the frozen river outside. Autopsies said that it wasn't the poision or bullets that killed him, but that he had water in his lungs and drowned in the river. His arms were frozen upward from trying to escape his icy grave ("Stretching arms up high"). Bad ass.
Brann Dailor's quotes help to illuminate what happens: "They put his soul inside Rasputin's body. Rasputin goes to usurp the czar and he is murdered. The two souls fly out of Rasputin's body through the crack in the sky(e)"
I read into the story of Rasputin and it really helps to clarify a lot of the meaning here. The lyrics deal with the planned assassination of Grigori Rasputin by Prince Felix Yusupov.
"Don't stay run away He has ordered assassination The henchmen are gathered and waitin"
Yusupov ordered the assassination and Rasputin was invited to the Moika Palace, where they planned to poison him ("Enemies poison deep within my second sight"). The poisoning apparently didn't work and Yusupov was forced to shoot him instead. However the story goes that he survived the initial shooting and tried to strangle Yusupov until the henchman had to shoot him three additional times.
As if the poisoning and four bullets weren't enough, they tossed him into the frozen river outside. Autopsies said that it wasn't the poision or bullets that killed him, but that he had water in his lungs and drowned in the river. His arms were frozen upward from trying to escape his icy grave ("Stretching arms up high"). Bad ass.
Brann Dailor's quotes help to illuminate what happens: "They put his soul inside Rasputin's body. Rasputin goes to usurp the czar and he is murdered. The two souls fly out of Rasputin's body through the crack in the sky(e)"