What it all boils down to is, the human condition will always have its share of strife, inequality, injustice, deceit, and other miseries and vices. We are promised reform, promised that we will make the world a better place, but we are bound by our inherently corrupt nature, and helpless before the indifference of the universe toward us. That is what keeps us down.
What about the promise of some hereafter?
"Our Thoughts Are Fading In A Time That Melts
Our Flesh Is Fading As We've Always Felt
But We Kid Ourselves To Meet Heaven's Feast
To Rise Up To God And To Be Released."
This verse can be taken in two ways: it is either a complete dismissal of a better life beyond this one, or as a repetition of the previous point from a new angle.
The latter would specifically mean, it addresses the delusion man sometimes entertains, of thinking he is able to rise up to a godly level of power over reality in order to create a heaven on earth that will release him from the human condition. He is of course kidding himself with this.
However, when this verse is taken in this second way, it still leaves room for an afterlife's promise, and affirms death as the only way out of the suffering of the world and into something better. Your interpretation will be dictated by how it passes through the filter of your own philosophy.
What it all boils down to is, the human condition will always have its share of strife, inequality, injustice, deceit, and other miseries and vices. We are promised reform, promised that we will make the world a better place, but we are bound by our inherently corrupt nature, and helpless before the indifference of the universe toward us. That is what keeps us down.
What about the promise of some hereafter?
"Our Thoughts Are Fading In A Time That Melts Our Flesh Is Fading As We've Always Felt But We Kid Ourselves To Meet Heaven's Feast To Rise Up To God And To Be Released."
This verse can be taken in two ways: it is either a complete dismissal of a better life beyond this one, or as a repetition of the previous point from a new angle.
The latter would specifically mean, it addresses the delusion man sometimes entertains, of thinking he is able to rise up to a godly level of power over reality in order to create a heaven on earth that will release him from the human condition. He is of course kidding himself with this.
However, when this verse is taken in this second way, it still leaves room for an afterlife's promise, and affirms death as the only way out of the suffering of the world and into something better. Your interpretation will be dictated by how it passes through the filter of your own philosophy.