I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
1. Terrible Canyons Of Static [00:00 - 03:34]
2. Atomic Clock [03:34 - 04:43]
3. Chart #3 [04:43 - 07:22]
4. World Police And Friendly Fire [07:22 - 17:10]
5. [...+The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now] [17:10 - 22:35]
2. Atomic Clock [03:34 - 04:43]
3. Chart #3 [04:43 - 07:22]
4. World Police And Friendly Fire [07:22 - 17:10]
5. [...+The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now] [17:10 - 22:35]
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This comment may be a little late, but I believe the comment above refers to another song on the album, "Antennas To Heaven."
Anyway, this could very well be my favourite track on "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like..." The prophetic speach given above with the strings in the background, followed by the very deliberate, yet increasingly intense strings...this is what I truly think Apocolypse will sound like, people.
(I'm also far too sleep-deprived for my own good and I have little idea of what I'm talking about. Ignore me, please.)
I love it. I love it when literature or the arts delve into the deep and dark territory that is the apocalypse. Despite being of no religious beliefs, the image that's painted is so passionate and dedicated that it's fascinating to me.
that is which the prophet and the oarman summoned has penetrated
This line is wrong, it is that is which the prophet and the urim and the thummim has penetrated
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urim_and_Thummim
Sounds like a born-again Christian talking about the moment they were converted to me. Maybe a slightly mentally unstable born again Christian.
I love this song
I'm pretty sure the lyric towards the bottom where you have "there will be terror under this day of night" is instead "there will be prayer on your lips day and night".
Not entirely sure, but pretty sure.
Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas Into Heaven - Static.
This is the entire corrected Preacher Speech. I just spent 30mins on this comment!!
The end of the initial speach is wrong, and I'm not sure if it says 'emotions' or 'motions' in the beginning? You typed 'emotions' but it sounds like 'motions' to me. I also corrected line 15.
There is only a post here once every seven months so I hope this helps, because it would have saved me some time.
====================================================================== ... it takes a holy life it takes motions it takes dedication it takes dedication it takes a death and only god can allow it and you couldn't do it if you're not the seed of god and so the path through the great corridors these are corridors unto his perfection that is which the prophet and the The Urim and Thummim has penetrated that through this great sea of blackness that i penetrated through these corridors and i went through that last segment where i went through these dark serpentines i passed through that corridor where they sat where they are and when you penetrate to the most high god you will believe you are mad you will believe you've gone insane but i tell you if you follow the secret window and you die to the ego nature you will penetrate this darkness oh yes there's many a man or woman that's been put in the insane asylum when this has happened to them and they're sitting there today, people think they're insane but they saw something that's real and they see it when they're on drugs the only thing is they see it not through the light of god, and the way i show you i show you to see it through the light of god and the understanding of god because when you see the face of god you will die and there will be nothing left of you except the god-man, the god-woman the heavenly man, the heavenly woman the heavenly child there will be prayer on your lips day and night there will be a song of jubilee waiting for your king there will be nothing you will be looking for in this world except for your god this is all a dream a dream in death
And so I went through that window I encountered hell and the greatest serpentines of the highest order And I went through that when I showed you chart number 3 The question is asked in Urim and Thummim concerning the Pit This horrible pit of mire and flame With the Urim and Thummim you can ask me a question If it’s asked from the right being or the right soul Out of Urimm and Thummim I can give you unspoken words That’s never been spoken it’s not even in the Bible Yes, it does clarify what is spoken in the Bible…
This song really scares me. I don't know what to think about it, it obviously sounds like someone is giving a speech about a sort of vision they had... Possibly talking about an occult ritual of some sort...
It sounds like "Careful with that axe, Eugene" around the 15 or 16 minute mark. Which isn't a bad thing. I think it's about the darker parts of our minds.
such an eerie song; it gives me the chills around the 6 minute mark.
The imagery is at times decidedly and specifically Judaeo-Christian. The urim and thummim he refers to were part of the priestly vestments in the Old Testament which were in some way revelatory, though it does not specifically describe how they reveal God's will. The term God-man, I have also heard used before, but only of Christ. Further, the statement that no man may see the face of God and live is from Exodus, I believe. This guy is definitely not an orthodox Christian, but his imagery is Christian. There is a statment that was left out of these lyrics that comes immediately following the last line that states "I can give you unspoken words, that are not even in the Bible" So as much as I kind of like his depiction of Christianity as an experience that will cause the death of the self and the creation of a new man, I absolutely think he's apostate because of statements like that and a few others in there, as well. It's a magnificent song, though.
Movements: