Lyric discussion by GOP 

Cover art for Solar Temple lyrics by Machines of Loving Grace

"Always a friend of the victim at the slaughter of the innocents"

Gilt is an exploded narrative. One of the characters is a jaded drug dealer who commits suicide, I believe one is an informant of some kind. This is my interpretation, but good luck finding out from the writer, unless you're talking about playing classical music from up-side down pop songs, or some other pretentious bullshit.