On the surface, this brilliant pAper chAse album appears to simply describe various ways to die. Yet the band is trying to do more than be macabre; taken as a whole, these songs explore the irony of why we are on this earth only to suffer through tragedy, pain, and death.
"What Should We Do With Your Body?" asks the mundane yet frankly shocking question that all humans must face: you're going to croak someday, where should we bury your ass? The song's narrator seems to be the spirit of God's vengeance, embodied in a (perhaps figurative) lightning bolt that causes sudden death. This first part of the song is musically chaotic to match the violent lyrical imagery.
But it is in the song's second part that the deeper meaning is to be found. The band shifts tone and "Your Body" morphs into a faux-gospel hymn. In the background, a man asks a child, "Who made you?" "God made me," the girl whispers. "Where is God?" "God is everywhere," she responds. The implication is that, through all of these different stages of life and from the wonderful to the horrifying--from the "birthing scenes to suicide bombings"--God is present. So I believe the song is questioning that if God is indeed everywhere, why does he stand idly by while suicide bombers kill little kids, or humans die generally horrific deaths? "The willing whore is the hand of the Lord," implying that nature and circumstances combine to bring about humans' demise...and that God not only could care less, He might even enjoy it.
This song, like the rest of the album, is a commentary on the conundrum of life and death and the human condition.
On the surface, this brilliant pAper chAse album appears to simply describe various ways to die. Yet the band is trying to do more than be macabre; taken as a whole, these songs explore the irony of why we are on this earth only to suffer through tragedy, pain, and death.
"What Should We Do With Your Body?" asks the mundane yet frankly shocking question that all humans must face: you're going to croak someday, where should we bury your ass? The song's narrator seems to be the spirit of God's vengeance, embodied in a (perhaps figurative) lightning bolt that causes sudden death. This first part of the song is musically chaotic to match the violent lyrical imagery.
But it is in the song's second part that the deeper meaning is to be found. The band shifts tone and "Your Body" morphs into a faux-gospel hymn. In the background, a man asks a child, "Who made you?" "God made me," the girl whispers. "Where is God?" "God is everywhere," she responds. The implication is that, through all of these different stages of life and from the wonderful to the horrifying--from the "birthing scenes to suicide bombings"--God is present. So I believe the song is questioning that if God is indeed everywhere, why does he stand idly by while suicide bombers kill little kids, or humans die generally horrific deaths? "The willing whore is the hand of the Lord," implying that nature and circumstances combine to bring about humans' demise...and that God not only could care less, He might even enjoy it.
This song, like the rest of the album, is a commentary on the conundrum of life and death and the human condition.