I don't think that it has anything to do with drugs. The song has two parts. In the first part describes modern society and the fearmonging clergy. It says that they are the same as the lynch mobs of the past and the crucify Venus (the goddess of lust) making a spectacle out of it. The high priest is the soul auctioneer who surfs on fear and the followers are the necropolis users. Then the journey becomes constantly more difficult because of hands pulling back, ideas that poison the mind and the way that becomes sharper.
In the next part of the song is the awakening. He leaves the terminal narcosis realizing that he was blind and there were undetected dangers. But the head (the head of the faith?) is dead, and it is just a blunt needle now, with broken wings and missing its demon (a word play with dear, probably an other reference to fear). Now for him there are marxist "priests" teaching defiance and change through violence (revolution?).
This is what I'm getting from the song. Correct me if I'm wrong.
This is what I'm getting from the song. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Basically, there's a bunch of dumb people trying to hide from some dark "thing" while some one below someone else in power is working to destroy anything "good" from distubing it, which is deemed as good because anyone trying to change that "thing" could end up making it worse.
As that's going on, a person misusing his spiritual power is using the fear of these people to get what he wants because he knows no one will stand up to it so he says what the hell i'll...
Basically, there's a bunch of dumb people trying to hide from some dark "thing" while some one below someone else in power is working to destroy anything "good" from distubing it, which is deemed as good because anyone trying to change that "thing" could end up making it worse.
As that's going on, a person misusing his spiritual power is using the fear of these people to get what he wants because he knows no one will stand up to it so he says what the hell i'll just use all these people cause they're too dumb to understand anyway.
The writer of the song is observing the situation saying to himself what the hell, i've got all these ideas about how to change things but everytime i try and do that i always run into obstacles cause this crappy situation is so bad in the first place, and i should have known better, and now that most of us have just lost everything completely there's no sense in trying to change a damn thing.
Something like that. Something along the lines of.....someone's in control of all this crap and someone else is working to prevent anyone from changing it and I'm just trying to make my own way and if you feel the same the best advice I can give you is not to lose your head. But chances are you already have, and now that you've been exposed to all this garbage, try and do something to change it.
I'd love to know the actual meaning behind the song, but you'd have to ask the band to explain, which they may not have time to do.
I don't think that it has anything to do with drugs. The song has two parts. In the first part describes modern society and the fearmonging clergy. It says that they are the same as the lynch mobs of the past and the crucify Venus (the goddess of lust) making a spectacle out of it. The high priest is the soul auctioneer who surfs on fear and the followers are the necropolis users. Then the journey becomes constantly more difficult because of hands pulling back, ideas that poison the mind and the way that becomes sharper.
In the next part of the song is the awakening. He leaves the terminal narcosis realizing that he was blind and there were undetected dangers. But the head (the head of the faith?) is dead, and it is just a blunt needle now, with broken wings and missing its demon (a word play with dear, probably an other reference to fear). Now for him there are marxist "priests" teaching defiance and change through violence (revolution?).
This is what I'm getting from the song. Correct me if I'm wrong.
This is what I'm getting from the song. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Basically, there's a bunch of dumb people trying to hide from some dark "thing" while some one below someone else in power is working to destroy anything "good" from distubing it, which is deemed as good because anyone trying to change that "thing" could end up making it worse. As that's going on, a person misusing his spiritual power is using the fear of these people to get what he wants because he knows no one will stand up to it so he says what the hell i'll...
Basically, there's a bunch of dumb people trying to hide from some dark "thing" while some one below someone else in power is working to destroy anything "good" from distubing it, which is deemed as good because anyone trying to change that "thing" could end up making it worse. As that's going on, a person misusing his spiritual power is using the fear of these people to get what he wants because he knows no one will stand up to it so he says what the hell i'll just use all these people cause they're too dumb to understand anyway.
The writer of the song is observing the situation saying to himself what the hell, i've got all these ideas about how to change things but everytime i try and do that i always run into obstacles cause this crappy situation is so bad in the first place, and i should have known better, and now that most of us have just lost everything completely there's no sense in trying to change a damn thing.
Something like that. Something along the lines of.....someone's in control of all this crap and someone else is working to prevent anyone from changing it and I'm just trying to make my own way and if you feel the same the best advice I can give you is not to lose your head. But chances are you already have, and now that you've been exposed to all this garbage, try and do something to change it.
I'd love to know the actual meaning behind the song, but you'd have to ask the band to explain, which they may not have time to do.