A lot of religious undertones here, but I think he’s using religious imagery we in the west are all familiar with illustrate a point about our elites. The “Gods” clipping the wings of the Phoenix are the elites that have created a system that virtually can’t be fought against or reset, and we all need to get rid of them (cutting the roots of the weeds). No place to go if we don’t believe - the tyrannical narrative that’s being forced down all of our throats by our overlords while they steal and kill and destroy to continue further enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense. We are heading to hell on earth as if life isn’t hard enough already, and if we all collectively don’t come to terms with the lies and do something to preserve the original free market system built on the notion that every individual person matters equally then we will be lost forever to the new techno-tyranny that’s emerging rapidly.
I think he uses this theme in other songs as well but this one is more explicit and I, of course, described the “system” in my own terms but it really is what’s happening all around us while we all sit back not knowing what to do because they’ve built such an impenetrable system and cut off all peaceful means of reform and yet violent revolutions always end up worse, so that’s also not a solution.
A lot of religious undertones here, but I think he’s using religious imagery we in the west are all familiar with illustrate a point about our elites. The “Gods” clipping the wings of the Phoenix are the elites that have created a system that virtually can’t be fought against or reset, and we all need to get rid of them (cutting the roots of the weeds). No place to go if we don’t believe - the tyrannical narrative that’s being forced down all of our throats by our overlords while they steal and kill and destroy to continue further enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense. We are heading to hell on earth as if life isn’t hard enough already, and if we all collectively don’t come to terms with the lies and do something to preserve the original free market system built on the notion that every individual person matters equally then we will be lost forever to the new techno-tyranny that’s emerging rapidly.
I think he uses this theme in other songs as well but this one is more explicit and I, of course, described the “system” in my own terms but it really is what’s happening all around us while we all sit back not knowing what to do because they’ve built such an impenetrable system and cut off all peaceful means of reform and yet violent revolutions always end up worse, so that’s also not a solution.