I guess the explanation is much more obvious, because the song is about Heaven's Gate cult. The subject can be its leader or a random cultist. As far as I know the "T" character was an extraterrestrial entity the leader claimed to be his father and the "dot in the sky" obviously refers to a concept of flying away on a board of UFO. What about the "watering at night" part so It's a known fact that enuresis is a problem typical for troubled people so either it refers to the cult leader who turned out to be a real maniac able to persuade people to commit mass suicide or a deeply traumatized person able to join the cult and be brainwashed enough to believe in unbelievable and, finally, die for it ("An unconventional mind was your ticket to die").
With that in mind, the other lines become clear - "A burning knife
Won't cut you out of ice cold persuasion" refers to a severe brainwashed state when not a single argument would change the cultist's beliefs that's actually a "deception and lies". And the lines "They never heard from you and it became a concern, You were gradually conditioned with nowhere to turn" tells about how it ended in Santa Fe ranch - the adepts weren't heard for long because almost 40 ppl were already dead.
But if not to take the UFO part literally, the song also can be about a traumatized person's desire to escape from reality and make up a better place. Sadly, the dreams take over, the reality shatters and the person commits suicide to stay in imaginary place forever.
I guess the explanation is much more obvious, because the song is about Heaven's Gate cult. The subject can be its leader or a random cultist. As far as I know the "T" character was an extraterrestrial entity the leader claimed to be his father and the "dot in the sky" obviously refers to a concept of flying away on a board of UFO. What about the "watering at night" part so It's a known fact that enuresis is a problem typical for troubled people so either it refers to the cult leader who turned out to be a real maniac able to persuade people to commit mass suicide or a deeply traumatized person able to join the cult and be brainwashed enough to believe in unbelievable and, finally, die for it ("An unconventional mind was your ticket to die").
With that in mind, the other lines become clear - "A burning knife Won't cut you out of ice cold persuasion" refers to a severe brainwashed state when not a single argument would change the cultist's beliefs that's actually a "deception and lies". And the lines "They never heard from you and it became a concern, You were gradually conditioned with nowhere to turn" tells about how it ended in Santa Fe ranch - the adepts weren't heard for long because almost 40 ppl were already dead.
But if not to take the UFO part literally, the song also can be about a traumatized person's desire to escape from reality and make up a better place. Sadly, the dreams take over, the reality shatters and the person commits suicide to stay in imaginary place forever.