I think this song is about radical religious people. The big black nothing is religion.
"big black nothing, foolin' everyone. Big black nothing, put a halo around what you've done" - is saying that people are fooling themselves into thinking the radical and bad things they do are in the name of religion.
The part about still being friends is the singer asking if the religious people would still talk to him if they knew he thought everything was just pretend and all fake. And the 'apocalypse' isn't really the end.
"... was made to appeal." - religion was just made to appeal to people and make them have something to believe in, but it's not real.
He is saying how scared he is of the people for believing in all of this: what would they do to prove their religion is the right one? So, he is hiding from it because he doesn't want to be sucked in.
I absolutely agree with you, thank you for writing this. To add to your interpretation, I think the lines 'Sing me something / Something I can feel / Sing it louder / The whole world has to hear' is him praying for someone to come along with some sort of philosophy that can appeal to the world as much as religion has, so that religion might finally be replaced.
I absolutely agree with you, thank you for writing this. To add to your interpretation, I think the lines 'Sing me something / Something I can feel / Sing it louder / The whole world has to hear' is him praying for someone to come along with some sort of philosophy that can appeal to the world as much as religion has, so that religion might finally be replaced.
i always got the same thing from this song. they glorify the things they do in the name of "god" or whomever that divine being may be for their religion. groups will always find a way to justify anything from strange religious routines to murders. such as everyone having their own prediction about the end of the world and as we see certain predictions coincidentally unfolding on television before our very eyes whatever group that made the "call" considers themselves right. religion only separates us from one another and it is quite frightful at how militant...
i always got the same thing from this song. they glorify the things they do in the name of "god" or whomever that divine being may be for their religion. groups will always find a way to justify anything from strange religious routines to murders. such as everyone having their own prediction about the end of the world and as we see certain predictions coincidentally unfolding on television before our very eyes whatever group that made the "call" considers themselves right. religion only separates us from one another and it is quite frightful at how militant any particular group could be.
I think this song is about radical religious people. The big black nothing is religion. "big black nothing, foolin' everyone. Big black nothing, put a halo around what you've done" - is saying that people are fooling themselves into thinking the radical and bad things they do are in the name of religion. The part about still being friends is the singer asking if the religious people would still talk to him if they knew he thought everything was just pretend and all fake. And the 'apocalypse' isn't really the end. "... was made to appeal." - religion was just made to appeal to people and make them have something to believe in, but it's not real. He is saying how scared he is of the people for believing in all of this: what would they do to prove their religion is the right one? So, he is hiding from it because he doesn't want to be sucked in.
I absolutely agree with you, thank you for writing this. To add to your interpretation, I think the lines 'Sing me something / Something I can feel / Sing it louder / The whole world has to hear' is him praying for someone to come along with some sort of philosophy that can appeal to the world as much as religion has, so that religion might finally be replaced.
I absolutely agree with you, thank you for writing this. To add to your interpretation, I think the lines 'Sing me something / Something I can feel / Sing it louder / The whole world has to hear' is him praying for someone to come along with some sort of philosophy that can appeal to the world as much as religion has, so that religion might finally be replaced.
i always got the same thing from this song. they glorify the things they do in the name of "god" or whomever that divine being may be for their religion. groups will always find a way to justify anything from strange religious routines to murders. such as everyone having their own prediction about the end of the world and as we see certain predictions coincidentally unfolding on television before our very eyes whatever group that made the "call" considers themselves right. religion only separates us from one another and it is quite frightful at how militant...
i always got the same thing from this song. they glorify the things they do in the name of "god" or whomever that divine being may be for their religion. groups will always find a way to justify anything from strange religious routines to murders. such as everyone having their own prediction about the end of the world and as we see certain predictions coincidentally unfolding on television before our very eyes whatever group that made the "call" considers themselves right. religion only separates us from one another and it is quite frightful at how militant any particular group could be.
rambling. sorry.