NationStates Jolt Archive

He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He’s got the answers to ease my curiosity
He dreamed up a God and called it christianity
Your God is dead and no one cares
If there is a hell I will see you there
He flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line
He made a virus that would kill off all the swine
His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain
Demands devotion atrocities done in his name
Your God is dead and no one cares
Drowning in his own hypocrisy
And if there is a hell I will see you there
Burning with your God in humility
Will you die for this?

Here's what I find interesting about this song. I'm not sure what Reznor believes, but this is quite obviously anti-Christian. Yet, he admits, essentially, that the Christian God at one point existed, but has died.

What do you guys think about this song?

Looks like a person noticing that the world is a pretty sick place, and jumping from the existance of a victim to the existance of a villain, and falling back on the myth he has been conditioned to believe in (at least to a degree).

Either that or milking the anti-christian cash cow for every cent.

Trent Reznor is not one to do things just to sell records...

An interesting note though, he played a very important role in the releasing of Marylin Manson's "Anti-Christ Superstar" album (namely, Reznor owns the production company that produced the album...)...which is the album that put Manson on the map.

Here's what I find interesting about this song. I'm not sure what Reznor believes, but this is quite obviously anti-Christian. Yet, he admits, essentially, that the Christian God at one point existed, but has died.

What do you guys think about this song?

I think Reznor was more about speculation - especially in the context of the whole album. What he was saying was: IF a god exists, and IF it is this Judeo-Christian god... then it isn't a pretty, pretty story as some would pretend... and that, THAT god (if real) is a pretty evil bastard, if you view it objectively.

The whole album is about someone unravelling, and the destruction of beliefs is just one stage of the destruction of self in that narrative.

Heresy

Here we are
In a world of corruption
Human nature is
Of violent Breed
Who cares if there;s no tomorrow
When I die for my future's
Laid out for me
Can't you see?
Rise above the lies
Morals on a backwards globe
A sin to you
For me it's hope.

It's my life and provision
Black or white
Some pay to pray
You question why they
Act this way
It's their fucking decision

No more judgement day
Only tranquility
Peace signs, protest lines
Mean nothing to me

Honesty born in me
Heresy

I know what's right or wrong
And my belief is stronger
Than your advice
People, they go to war
Because religion gives them
Reason to fight
Sacrifice, die for pride
A group that caters
No one's fees
Or synthetic deities
Is where I belong
My stand is the human race
Without a label or a face
So they can lick my sack

No more judgement day
Only tranquility
Peace signs, protest lines
Mean nothing to me

Honesty born in me
Heresy

i think the meaning of that song is relatively clear...