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Well all's not well
But I'm told that it'll all be quite nice
You'll be drowned in boots like Mafia
But your feet will still float like Christ's
And I'll be damned
They were right
I'm drowning upside down
My feet afloat like Christ's
I'm in heaven
Trying to figure out which stack
They're going to stuff us atheists into
When Peter and his monkey laugh
And I laugh with them
I'm not sure what at
They point and say
We'll keep you in the back
Polishing halos, baking manna and gas
Well some guy comes in looking a bit like everyone I ever seen
He moves just like Crisco disco
Breath a hundred percent Listerine
He says looking at something else
But directing everything to me
Ever time anyone gets on their knees to pray
Well it makes my telephone ring
And I'll be damned
He said you were right
No one's running this whole thing
He had a theory too
He said that God takes care of himself
And you of you
It's all nice on ice alright
And it's not day
And it's not night
But it's all nice on ice alright
But I'm told that it'll all be quite nice
You'll be drowned in boots like Mafia
But your feet will still float like Christ's
And I'll be damned
They were right
I'm drowning upside down
My feet afloat like Christ's
I'm in heaven
Trying to figure out which stack
They're going to stuff us atheists into
When Peter and his monkey laugh
And I laugh with them
I'm not sure what at
They point and say
We'll keep you in the back
Polishing halos, baking manna and gas
Well some guy comes in looking a bit like everyone I ever seen
He moves just like Crisco disco
Breath a hundred percent Listerine
He says looking at something else
But directing everything to me
Ever time anyone gets on their knees to pray
Well it makes my telephone ring
And I'll be damned
He said you were right
No one's running this whole thing
He had a theory too
He said that God takes care of himself
And you of you
It's all nice on ice alright
And it's not day
And it's not night
But it's all nice on ice alright
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And I laugh with them
I'm not sure what at"
People keep saying some strange things about these lines. The narrator is laughing because the people who are about to decide his fate, considering he is an atheist in heaven, are laughing. Think of numerous movie/tv scenes where a character gets caught by the bad guy and the bad guy starts laughing so the character laughs even though he has no idea what the bad guy is thinking.
Other than that, I think some people are pretty close to the meaning. The song is just playing on people's religious beliefs. "I might be drowning but at least they were right about my feet floating!" And at first I thought the "nice on ice" part was referring to alcohol but meth makes sense too.
I think when he is saying "It's all nice on ice, alright" he is saying two things: One: that Jesus walking on water is nothing special, because walking on ice is walking on water. Two: When you die they put you on ice and that's it, and that's fine, because life is quite enough of a ride to not need an 'after'.
........that being said I feel Isaac's gerneral meaning here is pretty cut and dry, its a religious/sociological satire. Basically he's made an absurd storyline invovling religious figures in an atempt to convey just how ridiculous some religious concepts are that people are expected to except out of faith and faith alone. To push this into a somewhat more personal interpertation (if I haven't done so already) I feel that he is also trying to portray a constrast in two very different schools of thought that both essentially strive for the same goal---A greater understanding of our own existence.
to give a specific example, Peter and his "monkey" are trying to figure out where to put the Athiests. And peter and his monkey start laughing. peter=apostile and, I feel, the monkey repersents darwinism or evolution: an idea that is considered (although not entirely consistent)an athiest belief, by way of the fact, that alot of religious figures draw the line there with science, not ecepting any futher compromising or re-evaluating thier faith in exchange for reason. (hell alot of relgious groups are still grappling with the Idea that the world is flat, or the earth is not the center of the universe and everthing else revovles around it (geocentric earth theory)) So getting back to my point when Peter and the Monkey are laughing but Isaac is "not sure what at" I believe your supposed to make the leap that since Isaac is athiest and believed(s) in evolution Peter and the monkey are laughing at, what would have been, Isaac's seeming ignorance to believe people decend from primates.
And then with one more little contrasting concept at the end, cris"t"co (hint hint) disco listerine (as I'll refer to him) or metaphoric jesus(if your making the assumption there's a non-metaphoric Jesus, I prefer not to conjecture as I'm an Agnostic by pratice) is the only person he meets in heaven that "has a theory--not believe, or some other omnipitant revolation that you'd expect from the main religious figure of christianity; a theory, like evolution is a theory. So the very entity whose followers view as absolute and All-Knowing, tells Isaac he was right after everyone else said he was wrong, and then procedes to share his ideas on exsistance, not as fact, but as an equal intellectual sharing ideas.... and I'm leaning on this one a bit much.....not to impart knowlege from a higher being to a lower being, but to share points and Ideas so both parties walk away a little more enlightened than they were before. And on a purely subjective note, the only proven way human sosciety can truely advance and grow. Its how buisness works, its how science works, and there are no 2 other things I can think of that could claim half the advancements in human progress, paturization, and penicillan for starters. (Warning I;m sure this next statement will stir alot of opposition for some people ( if I haven't already; and I probably have.)Where as the last time, to my knowlege, religions beliefs could clain human advancement was during the stoneage when it gave us a since of binding as a social creature, something greater than any individual members of the group, a reason to put the wellfare of the group above that of the individual. And therein lies it downfall as human's are still by nature driven by survial of the fittest, it didn't take long for people to find ways to exploit this new humanized way of thinking (side: Human beings are thought* to be the only animal speicies capible of overriding it survial instict (the unquestioned stongest and most engrianed instinict into our being) and *consciously*, not only decide they would like to end their exsistance, but to be able to overide the insticts that tells them that survival is priority number and I don't think any of this would be possible without an afterlife, if there's is a life after this one, this ones expendable for the next and, I'm told, it will be better. (alls not well but I'm told that it'll all be quite nice we'll be '*drowned in boots like mafia but my feet will still float like christ*">>>> yet another illusion to using religion as a crutch so as one doesn't have to deal with the Harsh "UNKNOWN!"/mystery of death. ......As long as people continue wrapping themselfs into mental securty as ameans to fool themselfs into a sence of eternal survival, they gained consiouss control to live or die, becuase this life is expendable. And thus began modern warfare as we know it. from dying for religion its only a hop skip and a jump to people talking on this now, all powerful, diety roll for them selfs and becoming god-king, really the first human ruler able to decree. And our wars became well organized blood affiars (I like to see some take the smart chimp around and prove me wrong but ,basic On the last stundy I read
I believe Isaac is explaining his perception on religion. His image of being religious is that it is unstable, just as styrofoam boots would be, but even though your head is under water, your feet are afloat like Christ's. I think he is somewhat bashing the idea of God throughout the song.
When it comes down to the end of the song, I think Isaac is trying to explain how you can walk on water when it is ice. You don't have to be jesus to do so and it is actually much more stable than styrofoam boots.
Just some thoughts that popped into my head when the song was stuck in my head and I was heading to sleep.
i think that when he say's "Well, some guy comes in looking a bit
Like everyone I ever seen
He moves just like Crisco disco
Breath 100% Listerine
He says looking at something else
But directing everything to me
"Every time anyone gets on their knees to pray
Well, it makes my telephone ring" Even though it say anyone, I think he's essentially saying he answers his own prayers. But thats me.