Lyric discussion by ironguy 

this i a comment from a guy who likes this song, what I don't like is people who make fun of me. that's why I want you to read this comment without to laugh.

I think the song is about a tv-series called stargate sg-1. the badguys are the Gould and the first of them that the humans met were a pharaoh. The gould is a "snake". The snake enters the human trough the neck and that way it can live for ages and the human has no control over the body but he/she is fighting to get it back:

From the cradle of silence and of light It took a birth in human blood - angels cry - To the ages of violence and of hate To explore the left hand path I came alive Into my striding, the shell of a god in the cold My soul is just hiding, my spirit haunting on to control

Then there is the name Seth, another gould. And after the chorus second time in the song:

Afraid of the eyes that shine in the darkness You don't realize, afraid in the haze You point at the man that grins in your nightmare And don't realize the mirror you gaze into You don't wanna see the spirits behind sceneries

The person the song is about is now a gould and says to a jaffa (the jaffas had the gould "snakes" in their bellys in the beginning of the series):

I guide your away I make you stay alive My servants taught you know how to survive The way of light is food for your soul But it's your belly that's taken control

In the series the gould (the pharaoh) Apophis tries to kill sokar who is actin as a devil (red god):

No guiding light would shine anymore It's just the red god replacing the core He'll rise again to open up the gate We have to learn for our future, our fate...

Sokar dies but thanks to the sarcophagus "he'll rise again" and he opens the gate (the stargate). Now the humans have to learn to defeat these badguys in order to save their galaxy, their future, their fate.

PS. took 20 minutes to write so please comment.

@ironguy thankss

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