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Vial of hope and a vial of pain
In the light they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world
On every boy and every girl singing
It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right
Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
What I know is what you know is right
In the city you see only light
It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right
Oh god, well, look at you now!
Oh, you lost it, but you don't know how!
In the light of a golden calf
Oh god, I had to laugh!
Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
It was wrong but you said it was right
In the future I will read at night
In the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is true
In the light they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world
On every boy and every girl singing
It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right
Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
What I know is what you know is right
In the city you see only light
It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right
Oh god, well, look at you now!
Oh, you lost it, but you don't know how!
In the light of a golden calf
Oh god, I had to laugh!
Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
It was wrong but you said it was right
In the future I will read at night
In the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is true
Lyrics submitted by afimrtl
Track duration: 05:44
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''Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page''
Neon Bible are catholic priests. Neon (annoying light - you can see it everywhere)
Bible says: Is a big road and a small road. When you are born - you are on the big road. You do not have to find it. But if you want to find the small one - that´s hard.
So - we are know that priests are theaching us things, that aren´t in Bible. For example: Hell, Forever living soul, Three God in one God... etc
"What I know is what you know is right. It was wrong but you said it was right." - Right.
Priests are teaching us about things "that´s right" but they are wrong.
Another example:
"Oh god, well, look at you now!
Oh, you lost it, but you don't know how!
In the light of a golden calf
Oh god, I had to laugh!"
- Win is definitely not talk to God. He is talking to people, who are doing idols. Golden calfs.
And what are doing priests? The are praying to golden calfs, what is by Bible wrong!
So, "Not much chance for survival, if the Neon Bible (priests) is right/true."
That´s my interpretation.
Neon Bible refers to the outlandish evangelical pastors that preach on TV. Hence, Neon bible (TV=neon, pastors and their religion, bible). It's not an anti-religion song, it's a song about those few folks who give Christianity a bad name with their TV BS and multi-million dollar jets. If the Neon bible is right, we're all in trouble.
This is song/album is a message to snap out of it and do, say, and believe what you feel for the sole reason that you feel like doing so. Not because the television, internet, or society tells you to do so.
Oh god! I hope not, that is SOOOOO cliche.
I think this is an anti religion song first of all. I say this because of the line "Not much chance for survival If the Neon Bible is right"
If the bible IS true, then it's right, there is not much chance of survival.
The line "In the light of a golden calf, Oh god, I had to laugh!" For those of you who don't know, the golden calf was an idol given to the Israelites by Aaron, and the point that Win is saying "Oh god I had to laugh." shows that he finds it funny that some people would worship something as a golden animal.
The lines
"Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
It was wrong but you said it was right
In the future I will read at night"
I think it's safe to assume that religion is what Win calls, 'The Poison of your Age."
Then the line that says "It was wrong but you said it was right. In the future I will read at night." Is my favorite line of the whole song because it says that someone is telling him something that he knows is wrong so to get away from the nagging he will "Read at night."
-Vial of hope and a vial of pain
-In the light they both looked the same
at this point in the song there's no distinction between "hope" and "pain" because they bear some kind of similarities.
by the end of the song, light allows one to see these aforementioned logical flaws behind religion (ie making a distinction between hope and pain). The lines:
-What I know is what you know is right
-In the city you see only light
become:
-It was wrong but you said it was right
-In the future I will read at night
which suggests that these logical flaws have been revealed to this person. Win (the lead singer) sarcastically says that he'll "read it at night" meaning he'll ignore the "wrong" of the bible like so many do.
this obviously doubles as a reference to the "neon" theme which is used for signs to make them legible at night. great song