Skinny Puppy – Inquisition

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  My Interpretation:This song seems like a journal of a scientist doing animal experimentations.
  
  The scientist who speaks in "blatant manner speak" is doing these experiments and taking notes.
  
  "torturer taints animal waits"
  
  ^^^ The torturer does horrible things to this animal then waits to see the results while taking note of the change in the animal. This happens many times in the story.
  
  
  "parting fits too young to grow old
  addicted romance love tested
  failing from substance abuse
  wicked resenting never faces itself
  torturer taints animal waits
  no environment torturer loving"
  
  ^^^ This first experiment sounds like the scientist wants to see what happens when the animal is separated from its family.
  
  "righteous real-time intrusion
  fears filtered for reasons unknown
  cancer attack bleaching desserts so sweet
  leaves bitter taste in the mouth forever
  torturer taints animal waits"
  
  ^^^ perhaps the animal is drugged and doesn't understand why it feels so pleasant. It's because the scientist is feeding it "desserts" and taking notes of the effects.
  
  "the wicked words of the torturer
  abusing and controlling anyone thats useful to him"
  
  ^^^ this reflects the attitude of vivisection and animal testing. Any animal that is useful to these lab scientists they will abuse and control.
  
  "reads story truth seething
  believed poison eaten
  swallows turning away
  torturer taints animal with hate
  enlightenment turned away
  no change the wicked not facing hisself"
  
  I think it is the scientist who is not facing himself and he's putting aside his sympathy for the animal. Even though the truth appears to him, he forces himself to ignore it.

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  General Comment:This song is a psychological environment; a place where our dualities bark to one another to change the scene. Within ourselves, we have both divine and dark desires. The dark within is the tormentor; the entity that shreds away our bonds to the naive and innocent. Wicked; the tormentor steals away before facing itself.

  Flag ohgrouson April 22, 2008   Link

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