LYRICS:
Time feels like I've been back in jail
Like when I was doing time but in the can
Spend all night on a bended knee
Just to beg for something to believe
Left home with a pack of clothes without a family tree [reference to fool card, 0?]
Time feels like I've been back in jail
Like when I was doing time but in the can
Spend all night on a bended knee
Just to beg for something to believe
Left home with a pack of clothes without a family tree [reference to fool card, 0?]
This fight could be the last fight
No giving and no winning
One time could be the all the time
Should we decide to end the misery
No giving and no winning
One time could be the all the time
Should we decide to end the misery
Time heals all of the burned out bridges
Filled with nothing more than misery
I wear the mask of the embattled son
Trying to beg for something to believe
Left home with a pack of clothes without a family tree
Filled with nothing more than misery
I wear the mask of the embattled son
Trying to beg for something to believe
Left home with a pack of clothes without a family tree
Break the chains of featherweights and giants
With disdain for everlasting liars
They're afraid when we spit out the fire
And start living my friend [that prayer?]
With disdain for everlasting liars
They're afraid when we spit out the fire
And start living my friend [that prayer?]
(Who will answer my prayer?)
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VIDEO:
The video begins with a storm brewing and a battle cadence. Interestingly the etymology of the word cadence means "to fall" and they always played these before battles....
Scott sits at a table dressed in a white shirt, possibly a symbol of purity/truth.
He writes in a book and seals it up with multiple layers.
The semi-nude woman opens the book called "The Last Fight" (Armageddon) and begins to read and starts crying. She removes the purple ring.
Possible correlations to the ring include wisdom similar to "the pearl of great price", the ring is symbolic of marriage and Purple as the balance of masculine (red) and feminine (blue) aspects of unity, so she is now in an unbalanced state, a fall from wisdom.
She puts on the red battle jacket (red-fiery, masculine, mars energy) and leaves.
Scott is back at the piano in white again, seeing what the girl is doing.
Notice the guitars here - White on the left, Black on the right, Black & white similar to a Taoist yin yang symbol in the middle.
Center guitar player's vest has skull & crossbones (symbol for poison, omen of impending doom), and he is wearing a cross necklace, death & resurrection... also maybe both symbols of crossroads (decision to make).. also memento mori, remember death.
We view a room with many chairs, which then have red blindfolds appear on them. Various people come in and take their seats but it looks like they are almost going through her or maybe she's invisible to them.
All those different people may be symbolic of collective cult mentality/brainwashing across various religions/cultures. The other people's clothing looks black & white, dull...
The other people put on red blindfolds - spiritual blindness, operating under the masculine, mars, fiery energy,, imbalanced.
All the people except the girl are blind and "drinking the koolaid/flavoraid." She gets up and walks out carrying the book and a rosary with a cross (spiritual death/resurrection).
All the people are coming down the steps, they don't have their blindfolds anymore, Perhaps this symbolic of them dying -- going into the underworld and waiting for another reincarnation cycle. Physical death opposed to her spiritual death & resurrection?
The girl comes back to the original room, puts the purple ring back on and takes off the battle jacket.
She stands next to the piano... the G key is pressed down... (GNOSIS/GENERATIVE POWER/GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE - in freemasonry). A rose shows on the piano and opens up... a symbol of wisdom/illumination, balance, love, ...
The G key is below the rose (sub rosa - under the rose = secrecy)
The drummer puts the battle drum down and walks away.