Since I guess no one else wanted to post any ideas about this song, I thought I'd try to. It reminds me of "Welcome to My Nightmare" era Alice Cooper, in a lot of ways. Songs on that record presented a sanitized form of atrocity, an odd, often over-dramatic portrayal of insanity and ultimately murder. This song, however, deals with child murder and probably pedophilia. The diamonds falling are the little innocent unique jewels that are prepubescent (asexual) children falling into the narrators grasp. The 'new wound in the sky' is the simple fact that every time a kid is murdered people lose more faith in God above, if that's not too simplistic. The very possibility of what is occurring is an affront to all goodness. The "Obsessions, Pink Children" is showing that one word or the other is much the same for the pedophile. That 'they are laid out in a line' is the murderer/molesters' self-serving justification. Wherever he goes he finds the next victim. By screaming, they pollute whatever stupid idea he had about what he's doing to them, 'demanding their life'. The feelings that call are the feelings to extinguish his victims. The red leper of all time is the ultimate, eternal taboo, Blood. The killers love and need, his desire to shine, are all illusory. He has turned his victim, a precious young life, a barely-born soul, into a thing for himself to consume. Something that is his, utterly, completely "mine".
Rightfully, the song is a letter to every person out there like the killer, and it is a message with it's honest, clear and impossible to misinterpret lyrics. People who would do this are garbage; "You Fucking People Make Me Sick."
@Asshole246 I agree with your interpretation but I believe that is one side to the story. This song reminds me of Beautiful Child off Children of God by Swans as well which is a similar story about a narrators deluded justifying thoughts about pedophilia and murder and self deception but if you listen to the first third and last third of the song it is eerily relatable as a human and powerful and this is done intentionally in order to create a dual and parallel meaning about Self deception and entitlement in order to compare the delusions of a pedophile...
@Asshole246 I agree with your interpretation but I believe that is one side to the story. This song reminds me of Beautiful Child off Children of God by Swans as well which is a similar story about a narrators deluded justifying thoughts about pedophilia and murder and self deception but if you listen to the first third and last third of the song it is eerily relatable as a human and powerful and this is done intentionally in order to create a dual and parallel meaning about Self deception and entitlement in order to compare the delusions of a pedophile with the less visible delusions of society. In comparison this song recycles that formula in a more concise subtle, and nonrelatable way and as you said the narrator sanitizes the same sort of atrocity of destroying youth and innocence with language that suggests although "diamonds are falling through the wound in the sky" it is their fault and justified through their entitlment and his obsession and anger at their youth (They Fucking make him sick). This duality between loving and hating the children is further complicated by the songs references to overpopulation of entitled society contrasted with the narrators romanticizing youth as he succumbs to his obsession at the end of the song he is clearly a hypocrite as he is entitled as well and while peoples urge to reproduce is leading to overpopulation he cant resist his obsession. Fucking sick song.
Since I guess no one else wanted to post any ideas about this song, I thought I'd try to. It reminds me of "Welcome to My Nightmare" era Alice Cooper, in a lot of ways. Songs on that record presented a sanitized form of atrocity, an odd, often over-dramatic portrayal of insanity and ultimately murder. This song, however, deals with child murder and probably pedophilia. The diamonds falling are the little innocent unique jewels that are prepubescent (asexual) children falling into the narrators grasp. The 'new wound in the sky' is the simple fact that every time a kid is murdered people lose more faith in God above, if that's not too simplistic. The very possibility of what is occurring is an affront to all goodness. The "Obsessions, Pink Children" is showing that one word or the other is much the same for the pedophile. That 'they are laid out in a line' is the murderer/molesters' self-serving justification. Wherever he goes he finds the next victim. By screaming, they pollute whatever stupid idea he had about what he's doing to them, 'demanding their life'. The feelings that call are the feelings to extinguish his victims. The red leper of all time is the ultimate, eternal taboo, Blood. The killers love and need, his desire to shine, are all illusory. He has turned his victim, a precious young life, a barely-born soul, into a thing for himself to consume. Something that is his, utterly, completely "mine".
Rightfully, the song is a letter to every person out there like the killer, and it is a message with it's honest, clear and impossible to misinterpret lyrics. People who would do this are garbage; "You Fucking People Make Me Sick."
@Asshole246 I agree with your interpretation but I believe that is one side to the story. This song reminds me of Beautiful Child off Children of God by Swans as well which is a similar story about a narrators deluded justifying thoughts about pedophilia and murder and self deception but if you listen to the first third and last third of the song it is eerily relatable as a human and powerful and this is done intentionally in order to create a dual and parallel meaning about Self deception and entitlement in order to compare the delusions of a pedophile...
@Asshole246 I agree with your interpretation but I believe that is one side to the story. This song reminds me of Beautiful Child off Children of God by Swans as well which is a similar story about a narrators deluded justifying thoughts about pedophilia and murder and self deception but if you listen to the first third and last third of the song it is eerily relatable as a human and powerful and this is done intentionally in order to create a dual and parallel meaning about Self deception and entitlement in order to compare the delusions of a pedophile with the less visible delusions of society. In comparison this song recycles that formula in a more concise subtle, and nonrelatable way and as you said the narrator sanitizes the same sort of atrocity of destroying youth and innocence with language that suggests although "diamonds are falling through the wound in the sky" it is their fault and justified through their entitlment and his obsession and anger at their youth (They Fucking make him sick). This duality between loving and hating the children is further complicated by the songs references to overpopulation of entitled society contrasted with the narrators romanticizing youth as he succumbs to his obsession at the end of the song he is clearly a hypocrite as he is entitled as well and while peoples urge to reproduce is leading to overpopulation he cant resist his obsession. Fucking sick song.