Duplicate Keys Icaro (An Interim Report) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kettles86 

Cover art for Duplicate Keys Icaro (An Interim Report) lyrics by Propagandhi

I think this is about a DMT/Ayahuasca trip. An Icaro is a shamanic medicine song. Except I don't understand the Duplicate Keys' part.

Song Meaning

YES! This is absolutely a DMT trip report. The "Duplicate Keys" I think he is putting forth a hypothesis that the chrysanthemum stage of a DMT trip in which you witness the shifting ineffable mandalic shape that consumes your vision along with the overflow of this chemical (DMT) combine to unlock some universal door that leads to the sacred DMT space. I think he is using the word "Duplicate" because these two "keys" are intertwined. The chemical causes the mandala, or "cryptic ring structure," but the mandala turns right around and effects your senses as well as your very consciousness....

@kettles86 @astralbeast - This was my thought as well. My assumption of the 'duplicate keys' bit is that DMT and similar compounds operate on serotonin and dopamine receptors. Though they're not exactly the brain's primary chemicals for those receptors, they still fit in some of those locks (and unlock one hell of a door).