Almost every line has some sort of religious reference:
"Awake in this womb with a crown stinging my self" - Jesus in the womb with his crown of thorns...
"The rules they don't explain, so why do we obey?" - Religion (particularly Christianity) is full of rules that have no logical reasoning to them. Ian is asking why people would follow so blindly.
"A star for us to adore" - Christianity, Judaism, Ancient greek, roman and egyptian religions are all Sun cults, idolising our star Sol as a God.
"I spit in the mouth of your God, who whispers in the minds of the children you've been sold again" - Clearly a "Fuck You" message to institutional religion who feeds off parents 'selling' their children to the church who are then inducted into the religion before they are old enough to thing for themselves and as a result follow blindly without thought.
"Set fire to the Hive as you flee" - A message to those who have escaped religions grasp telling them to tear down religious ideology as they leave it's midst so as to help others escape.
"It's fiction, a faceless illusion" - religion is fiction... no further explanation needed. Regardless of what priests and rabies tell us, there has never been a physical 'face' to the belief that they spew.
You've been had again" - Religion is a trick, just like any other con.
"You swing this wrecking ball, A violent pendulum, To hypnotize them all." - A reference to Holy war, Jihad. Religion hypnotises it's followers into hating people outside it's midst causing terror and destruction in the name of a lie.
The music video's depiction of Pyramids also suports the religion hypothesis as the pyramids are a religious symbol of the Ancient Egyptians and more recently Catholicism (Four sided pyramids can be found all over the Vatican).
Almost every line has some sort of religious reference: "Awake in this womb with a crown stinging my self" - Jesus in the womb with his crown of thorns... "The rules they don't explain, so why do we obey?" - Religion (particularly Christianity) is full of rules that have no logical reasoning to them. Ian is asking why people would follow so blindly. "A star for us to adore" - Christianity, Judaism, Ancient greek, roman and egyptian religions are all Sun cults, idolising our star Sol as a God. "I spit in the mouth of your God, who whispers in the minds of the children you've been sold again" - Clearly a "Fuck You" message to institutional religion who feeds off parents 'selling' their children to the church who are then inducted into the religion before they are old enough to thing for themselves and as a result follow blindly without thought. "Set fire to the Hive as you flee" - A message to those who have escaped religions grasp telling them to tear down religious ideology as they leave it's midst so as to help others escape. "It's fiction, a faceless illusion" - religion is fiction... no further explanation needed. Regardless of what priests and rabies tell us, there has never been a physical 'face' to the belief that they spew. You've been had again" - Religion is a trick, just like any other con. "You swing this wrecking ball, A violent pendulum, To hypnotize them all." - A reference to Holy war, Jihad. Religion hypnotises it's followers into hating people outside it's midst causing terror and destruction in the name of a lie. The music video's depiction of Pyramids also suports the religion hypothesis as the pyramids are a religious symbol of the Ancient Egyptians and more recently Catholicism (Four sided pyramids can be found all over the Vatican).
@FroWill I agree completely. Great summary.
@FroWill I agree completely. Great summary.