I interpret this as not a literal song about the end of the world, but the end of a cult. In my opinion, this song addresses the leader of a cult who’s finally facing repercussions for his actions. This is the end of his world as he knows it. The first stanza screams “cult leader who stopped getting away with all his nefarious shenanigans” to me. The flowers have begun to fade? Seems like members of the cult and even outsiders no longer view the cult as the idyllic utopia that it’s been advertised as. In the third and fourth stanza, the song is telling the cult leader that he’s going to trial for what he’s done, and he’ll most definitely be found guilty. I feel that stanza six is referring to the urge that everyone experiences to gain power, so the speaker has at least some empathy for the leader of the cult. Then, in stanza seven, I believe that the cult members are now gone—not the entire world. They’ve abandoned their leader for good, which is why stories about the cult will never reach them. It’s behind them now. In the following stanza, all the sheep left for… respite. Respite from the cult. Sounds like a great vacation to me! This is just what I think because I have too much time on my hands and like to analyze things I don’t completely understand at first.
I interpret this as not a literal song about the end of the world, but the end of a cult. In my opinion, this song addresses the leader of a cult who’s finally facing repercussions for his actions. This is the end of his world as he knows it. The first stanza screams “cult leader who stopped getting away with all his nefarious shenanigans” to me. The flowers have begun to fade? Seems like members of the cult and even outsiders no longer view the cult as the idyllic utopia that it’s been advertised as. In the third and fourth stanza, the song is telling the cult leader that he’s going to trial for what he’s done, and he’ll most definitely be found guilty. I feel that stanza six is referring to the urge that everyone experiences to gain power, so the speaker has at least some empathy for the leader of the cult. Then, in stanza seven, I believe that the cult members are now gone—not the entire world. They’ve abandoned their leader for good, which is why stories about the cult will never reach them. It’s behind them now. In the following stanza, all the sheep left for… respite. Respite from the cult. Sounds like a great vacation to me! This is just what I think because I have too much time on my hands and like to analyze things I don’t completely understand at first.
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