Cynic – Integral birth

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  My Interpretation:I have my own interpretation for this song, would love it if that's what they really meant, I like it a lot!
  
  It refers to the birth of the universe and life on earth
  The touching of the strings might refer to us developing all sorts of theories to explain the universe though they are incorrect or incomplete (harp not singing) we still look at the universe and it's stars for guidance and direction (sun sparks)
  the doves are probably asteroids, the tears of blood are water ice (liquid of life - blood) on the asteroids, as current astrophysics suggests, the earth was hit millions of times during it's primal state by asteroids containing water hence a million doves that orbit round (not orbiting like a satellite but on a chance to collide, that's why they used "round") the earth.
  the killing of the virgin (earth in it's earliest form, with no water but ready to be "impregnated" with it) would be the asteroids colliding with earth providing water and the chance for life.
  From nothingness this universe appeared (from the void) bringing matter and energy (wave and particle).
  The uncreated light will be the matter turning into stars due to the forces (in the uncreated light emerged an oracle)
  we're all but one life form and one with the universe, then eventually life is created.

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    the asteroid "rain" stops at some point (weep no more)
    the noble silence is the state in which earth is in after all the collisions and the violent volcanic activity caused (again) by the asteroids.

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  General Comment:This isn't so much about Christianity, this is about the human story. It starts off with the narrator looking at the cosmos for signs. He realizes that under the sands of time, there's the "ominous hole" of human beliefs long past, what humans did to find the same truth he is seeking now. The truth rebirths itself, or manifests itself differently. The doves weep in seeing how it manifested before in humans. Later he says, "weep no more, noble silence usher my way home". This is a tribute to meditation, the noble silence is bringing him home to truth, back to the origin, down that hole. In the end he realizes all the lines in the sand, all the cosmic sights, they are only part of a great truth. This "truth" is reborn and he claims it as those before him claimed theirs.

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  Lyric Correction:Corrected lyrics; listen to the Re-Traced version, these are definitely correct.
  
  I touch the string, though the harp may not sing
  Still I dig the sky for sun sparks to guide
  Down below there's a land with an ominous hole
  Dug deep in the sand of belief
  
  A million doves
  Orbit 'round the Earth with tears of blood
  Kill the virgin, take Integral Birth
  
  From the void, I am born into wave and particle
  In the uncreated light emerged an oracle
  
  A million doves
  Orbit round the Earth with tears of blood
  Slay the dragon, take Integral Birth
  
  Weep no more
  Noble silence, usher my way home
  
  A million doves
  Orbit 'round the Earth with tears that flood
  Line in sand erased, we are but one
  Cosmic cavalcade, we are but one
  Time has come, I'll take Integral Birth

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  General Comment:This is such an awesome song!!!!! Paul's vocodor is so awesome and the background growling gives an edge. The acoustic version is also good but I some how feel like the guitar and the vocals are off, like they aren't going together in that version. Great song, and I agree with signpost's idea

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  My Opinion:From what I took from the lyrics, I'd say it is touching on Christianity, and then that our existance may not lie in the hands of any God, but rather in the universe's natural course of events.

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  General Comment:This seems to be referring to the emergence of the universe from nothing, the void. Suffering comes from ignoring where we came from, believing in dualism. The lyrics are steeped in metaphor though, so I'm sure there's a lot more there.

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