It's interesting that as soon as words and phrases becomes a little bit complicated and a little bit more "metaphorical" everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's about god, or religion in some way. Sure that's the case a lot of times, but you can describe views and thoughts with odd words without it having to be religious.
Of course I could be wrong in this case.
(These are my thoughts about the lyrics)
I believe that this song is a criticism to our society and what life has become within it. The "demon" is the coldhearted society that we live in. Describing it vaguely as a demon is a much more efficient way of portraying hate than just to use the word "hate". The demon is already evil, that's a given.
"What a foul little temptress your daughter's become", is referring to the followers and enforcers of the society and the arbitrary rules within it. The product of not caring for anyone for hundreds of years. The ones who obey without question.
"Cause we all crawl in quicksand the same". This has to be one of the strongest lines I've seen in lyrics. We all know, or have heard that if you're stuck in quicksand: don't move. But if we would fall in a pit of quicksand we'd all freak out, try to get out and eventually sink, even though we knew what we had to do. So even though we all know about the problems and how to get around them, when we're in them ourselves we forget everything we've learned and start to panic. The "quicksand" here is the inevitable realization of how sad our existence within society has become.
"You covered your wounds in a bandage of sloth
the deeper the slur that rang from her laugh
and something tells me to keep it together"
This verse is really interesting. It treats our communities like a being with self-awareness. "The wounds" would be the people who speak out, try to change and reorganize and the "covering" would be the killing of those people or opinions.
"Of this I ate...
communion shaped..."
This portrays how easy we'll swallow the lies, and the disguise of a "community" in a structure that doesn't care about anything in it except the ones that will keep it growing.
"Serpent rays in prism tail rainbows escape"
From my point of view, this line would refer to commercials, how intriguing they can be even though we all know it's crap and that it's only a psychological trick they use to get us to buy more shit we don't need.
It's interesting that as soon as words and phrases becomes a little bit complicated and a little bit more "metaphorical" everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's about god, or religion in some way. Sure that's the case a lot of times, but you can describe views and thoughts with odd words without it having to be religious. Of course I could be wrong in this case.
(These are my thoughts about the lyrics) I believe that this song is a criticism to our society and what life has become within it. The "demon" is the coldhearted society that we live in. Describing it vaguely as a demon is a much more efficient way of portraying hate than just to use the word "hate". The demon is already evil, that's a given.
"What a foul little temptress your daughter's become", is referring to the followers and enforcers of the society and the arbitrary rules within it. The product of not caring for anyone for hundreds of years. The ones who obey without question.
"Cause we all crawl in quicksand the same". This has to be one of the strongest lines I've seen in lyrics. We all know, or have heard that if you're stuck in quicksand: don't move. But if we would fall in a pit of quicksand we'd all freak out, try to get out and eventually sink, even though we knew what we had to do. So even though we all know about the problems and how to get around them, when we're in them ourselves we forget everything we've learned and start to panic. The "quicksand" here is the inevitable realization of how sad our existence within society has become.
"You covered your wounds in a bandage of sloth the deeper the slur that rang from her laugh and something tells me to keep it together" This verse is really interesting. It treats our communities like a being with self-awareness. "The wounds" would be the people who speak out, try to change and reorganize and the "covering" would be the killing of those people or opinions.
"Of this I ate... communion shaped..." This portrays how easy we'll swallow the lies, and the disguise of a "community" in a structure that doesn't care about anything in it except the ones that will keep it growing.
"Serpent rays in prism tail rainbows escape" From my point of view, this line would refer to commercials, how intriguing they can be even though we all know it's crap and that it's only a psychological trick they use to get us to buy more shit we don't need.