Just what I've gathered through listening and reading the lyrics. DO NOT take my words as gold.
I don't have a nice full interpretation for the song, but I think it is a continuation of The Stage and its "the government is fooling us all" message, a sort of assertion that an "illuminati group" does exist and has kept it self hidden successfully and is on the brink of unleashing its true plan soon.
"Took the road, but should have chased the stars." may be alluding to Exist and the Neil DeGrasse Tyson speech about getting over human conflict and focusing on space exploration instead.
"The faster we run now, the closer the gun now and somehow all the bullets bear my name"
this seems to allude to a martial law or government take over of the citizens of their country. The government hunting down free thinkers and or just fully enslaving their people through force.
"Mother wash the devil from my hands
Mother, tell me was it all a lie?
Show me where the angels die"
Seems like a remorseful person living in this new authoritarian 1984-like hell pondering on how the government was lying about trying to help us all along. The angels may be revolutionaries who failed and were ultimately killed... silenced by the new ruling authoritarian government.
Simulation comes directly after and seems to insinuate that the government then went on to make the Matrix a reality.
Just what I've gathered through listening and reading the lyrics. DO NOT take my words as gold.
I don't have a nice full interpretation for the song, but I think it is a continuation of The Stage and its "the government is fooling us all" message, a sort of assertion that an "illuminati group" does exist and has kept it self hidden successfully and is on the brink of unleashing its true plan soon.
"Took the road, but should have chased the stars." may be alluding to Exist and the Neil DeGrasse Tyson speech about getting over human conflict and focusing on space exploration instead.
"The faster we run now, the closer the gun now and somehow all the bullets bear my name" this seems to allude to a martial law or government take over of the citizens of their country. The government hunting down free thinkers and or just fully enslaving their people through force.
"Mother wash the devil from my hands Mother, tell me was it all a lie? Show me where the angels die" Seems like a remorseful person living in this new authoritarian 1984-like hell pondering on how the government was lying about trying to help us all along. The angels may be revolutionaries who failed and were ultimately killed... silenced by the new ruling authoritarian government.
Simulation comes directly after and seems to insinuate that the government then went on to make the Matrix a reality.