Megbird1691 - Very interesting interpretation and info.
Tree of smoke might be the burning bush...it's the only ting I can think of.
Daytime ghosts - angles....lost souls?
It feels as if he is singing this song for the Pilgrim (religious man while he, Connor is a non-believer ) stating how alike they really are and how they face the same dooming world.
"All this despair forgiven
Rolling away on a Wheel of Sevens
She sings like the Queen of Sheba
Voice through a blown speaker
One drop and bubbling Leslie
Calling me home like Haile Selassie"
These lines seem to emphasize the allure of religious beliefs...when time are hard ones seem to just roll along and believe...because it's the easiest thing to do.
Haile Sealassie is again a synonym for such beliefs....and it's calling him home....when he says "sings like the Queen of Sheba" he means singing temptingly...the Queen of Sheeba (mentioned in the Muslin Quran and the Bible too....not sure) was a beautiful seductress.
"Cover our heads as they split the atom
All of our days are numbered
I’ve taken some comfort
In knowing the wave has crested
Knowing I don’t have to be an exception
Children they fill the bleachers
One is the next Caesar
Keep all their minds collected
Until he comes, until he comes"
This veers away from religion into science and polities.....things that are wrong with the world today....there are atom bombs and nuclear weapons being made....but what can he and this pilgrim do about it...they just keep their head down and move on....he also finds a sense of comfort in this end....like he wants the hanging thread of apocalypse to be done and over with.
People keep on and on multiplying endlessly...one is the next Ceasar (tyrant) all their minds are kept uniform and collect. (things he has stated in earlier songs and bands about the death of individuality).
Hide the Omega Day in plain sight
Too good to be true
While we are all kept "uniform" and busy we miss to see the Omega Day right in front of us.
I’ve seen stranger things
I’ve seen that tree of smoke
I’ve seen stranger things happen before
Not sure about the chorus...
"Pilgrim up on the mountain
Barefoot and still climbing
Filling the Book of Hours
Day after day in the filth and squalor"
Struggling on through it all...
"We are the chosen people
Safe from the next evil
One Love, magnetic memory
Reel after reel spinning within me
"
'Tree of smoke' is indeed a biblical reference, although not the burning bush... though I don't myself know the specific lines I found this info:
'In the Bible, the Tree of Smoke is a portent, signaling the day when "the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."'
In the context of the song, especially with reference to 'cover our heads as they split the atom' I would hazard that it's a reference to the 'tree of smoke' produced by an atomic bomb and a symbol of the...
'Tree of smoke' is indeed a biblical reference, although not the burning bush... though I don't myself know the specific lines I found this info:
'In the Bible, the Tree of Smoke is a portent, signaling the day when "the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."'
In the context of the song, especially with reference to 'cover our heads as they split the atom' I would hazard that it's a reference to the 'tree of smoke' produced by an atomic bomb and a symbol of the dangers of modernity and technological advances... and all the strange things those bring.
I also thought it might be 'mimetic memory', not 'magnetic', which would make sense with the sci-fi tone of the album
I don't know if this might mean any thing in the context of this lyric, but the Queen of Sheba is (within the rastafarian movement) believed to be Heile Selassies ancenstor. The connection between her and King Solomom, gives Selassie the divine lineage "needed" to be Messiah.
I don't know if this might mean any thing in the context of this lyric, but the Queen of Sheba is (within the rastafarian movement) believed to be Heile Selassies ancenstor. The connection between her and King Solomom, gives Selassie the divine lineage "needed" to be Messiah.
Megbird1691 - Very interesting interpretation and info.
Tree of smoke might be the burning bush...it's the only ting I can think of.
Daytime ghosts - angles....lost souls?
It feels as if he is singing this song for the Pilgrim (religious man while he, Connor is a non-believer ) stating how alike they really are and how they face the same dooming world.
"All this despair forgiven Rolling away on a Wheel of Sevens She sings like the Queen of Sheba Voice through a blown speaker One drop and bubbling Leslie Calling me home like Haile Selassie"
These lines seem to emphasize the allure of religious beliefs...when time are hard ones seem to just roll along and believe...because it's the easiest thing to do. Haile Sealassie is again a synonym for such beliefs....and it's calling him home....when he says "sings like the Queen of Sheba" he means singing temptingly...the Queen of Sheeba (mentioned in the Muslin Quran and the Bible too....not sure) was a beautiful seductress.
"Cover our heads as they split the atom All of our days are numbered I’ve taken some comfort In knowing the wave has crested Knowing I don’t have to be an exception Children they fill the bleachers One is the next Caesar Keep all their minds collected Until he comes, until he comes"
This veers away from religion into science and polities.....things that are wrong with the world today....there are atom bombs and nuclear weapons being made....but what can he and this pilgrim do about it...they just keep their head down and move on....he also finds a sense of comfort in this end....like he wants the hanging thread of apocalypse to be done and over with.
People keep on and on multiplying endlessly...one is the next Ceasar (tyrant) all their minds are kept uniform and collect. (things he has stated in earlier songs and bands about the death of individuality).
Hide the Omega Day in plain sight Too good to be true
While we are all kept "uniform" and busy we miss to see the Omega Day right in front of us.
I’ve seen stranger things I’ve seen that tree of smoke I’ve seen stranger things happen before
Not sure about the chorus...
"Pilgrim up on the mountain Barefoot and still climbing Filling the Book of Hours Day after day in the filth and squalor"
Struggling on through it all...
"We are the chosen people Safe from the next evil One Love, magnetic memory Reel after reel spinning within me "
Not sure about this either...
'Tree of smoke' is indeed a biblical reference, although not the burning bush... though I don't myself know the specific lines I found this info: 'In the Bible, the Tree of Smoke is a portent, signaling the day when "the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."' In the context of the song, especially with reference to 'cover our heads as they split the atom' I would hazard that it's a reference to the 'tree of smoke' produced by an atomic bomb and a symbol of the...
'Tree of smoke' is indeed a biblical reference, although not the burning bush... though I don't myself know the specific lines I found this info: 'In the Bible, the Tree of Smoke is a portent, signaling the day when "the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."' In the context of the song, especially with reference to 'cover our heads as they split the atom' I would hazard that it's a reference to the 'tree of smoke' produced by an atomic bomb and a symbol of the dangers of modernity and technological advances... and all the strange things those bring.
I also thought it might be 'mimetic memory', not 'magnetic', which would make sense with the sci-fi tone of the album
I really didn't think about the allure of religious beliefs, that's awesome thanks for sharing all this.
I really didn't think about the allure of religious beliefs, that's awesome thanks for sharing all this.
I don't know if this might mean any thing in the context of this lyric, but the Queen of Sheba is (within the rastafarian movement) believed to be Heile Selassies ancenstor. The connection between her and King Solomom, gives Selassie the divine lineage "needed" to be Messiah.
I don't know if this might mean any thing in the context of this lyric, but the Queen of Sheba is (within the rastafarian movement) believed to be Heile Selassies ancenstor. The connection between her and King Solomom, gives Selassie the divine lineage "needed" to be Messiah.