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As we fall into sequence
And we're eating our young
Remain silent and still for modesty
When the splints have been broken
And they can't help you now
Do you pray with your eyes closed naturally
Follow me into nowhere
Woven with the utmost care
If I'm lost please don't find me
If I jump let me sink
We descended from no one
With a wink
When it's cold outside hold me
Don't hold me
When I choose to rest my eyes coax me
Don't coax me
When it's cold outside hold me
Don't hold me
When I choose to rest my eyes coax me
Don't coax me
Follow me into nowhere
Woven with the utmost care
Have they cleansed you with chloride
And scrubbed behind the knees
Has your body been hollowed by the breeze
And we're eating our young
Remain silent and still for modesty
When the splints have been broken
And they can't help you now
Do you pray with your eyes closed naturally
Follow me into nowhere
Woven with the utmost care
If I'm lost please don't find me
If I jump let me sink
We descended from no one
With a wink
When it's cold outside hold me
Don't hold me
When I choose to rest my eyes coax me
Don't coax me
When it's cold outside hold me
Don't hold me
When I choose to rest my eyes coax me
Don't coax me
Follow me into nowhere
Woven with the utmost care
Have they cleansed you with chloride
And scrubbed behind the knees
Has your body been hollowed by the breeze
Lyrics submitted by anausteregentleman
Track duration: 03:50
"Celestica" as written by Ethan Kath, Alice Glass
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The language is so evocative and exquisite. If Miss Alice
wrote this on her own, I have to say that she's a brilliant
writer. It's Poetry that challenges your impressions and
stays with you time and again...
Everyone can find their own interpretation, but through my
eyes, this song is about Religion, the transience of Life
and Death, loss, and heartbreak, which are such enduring
and universal themes... I'm also taking into account that
she's a young woman who had family crisis that led to
a stint of homelessness in her teens, yet she inherited
all of her grandmother's old spun clothes, which she
continues to wear regularly (an attachment or regard for
past traditional values?)..in memoriam for her loss?...
Alice definitely confronted Mortality early in her life
and this song does, as well.
In the lyrics (as others have stated), she seems to be
questioning the "sequence"--our superficial exteriors,
societal expectations, and the hazards such hypocrisies
often create. ("eating our young," for example) Her words
suggest that the most religious or proper individuals
often do not act, as needed, under the cover of being
"silent" or "modest." She's really blowing a hole in
false Christians or other believers who do not act on
the tenets of their faith to the detriment of others
and God...
When she says, "if I'm lost, please don't find me"...it
seems she does not want to join any falsehoods. She wants
her own freedom to "jump" and believe on her own, rather
than follow wrongful precepts, no matter the cost.
"When all the splints have broken" (the artificial aspects
and material comforts of life) and the wheels really come
off the cart, who is there?? (not false prophets, but God?)
She validates prayer, but questions formality over substance-
"do you pray with your eyes closed naturally?" i.e. or do
you pray from your heart, soul, and mind at that moment...
when all the wheels come off??...
"We descended from no one" is not anti-Christian. It's
actually a tenet of the Catholic church and a direct
Biblical reference. The Bible says that we did not
descend from God, only Jesus descended from heaven.
But, every mortal has part of Jesus within!...
Therefore, the language, "we descended from no one"
confirms religious theory and the existence of God
in a profound way...
Her addition of "with a wink" gives nod to the irony
of it all and how many may deny or not be fully aware
that God is pulling all of their strings. i.e. our
reality is completely dependent and suspended within
His reality. This is a such a deep, complex concept
that she alludes to...breathtaking verse.
I think the chorus: hold me, don't hold me; coax me,
don't coax me, refers to the fleeting, fickle nature
of fallible mankind. One minute they "love" you, one
minute, they don't, but God remains... The rhythm goes
on, but God remains, even after the show is over.
"Follow me into nowhere"... No one really knows the
future or where we are going, no matter how carefully
we prepare or have "woven" our life with "much care."
Hence, God is there...
Then, finally, she considers, "have they cleansed you
with chloride?" i.e. can the material, external world
ever remove your sins? This has connotations of burial
preparations and being "hollowed by the breeze" is a
common literary reference to death, the inevitable end
of your life... i.e. Are YOU ready, spiritually?
My impression is that she is an idealistic, spiritual
person and the lyrics are a moral parable, as she is
filmed walking through a graveyard in the music video.
I think it's an incredibly religious, profound song.
She may have found religion through her own walk
through life, through her own courage and experience,
love, loss, and crisis, rather than from what others
have foisted upon her. She is definitely considering
the meaning of life--wow!!
The beauty of it is that she is allowing you to "walk"
through the song on your own to find your own meaning
as well... It's merely suggestive and metaphorical,
just as real life is often so ambiguous.
Bravo, Crystal Castles!!
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They once had an employee that fell into a huge vat of boiling hot melted plastic, or chemical used in the process of making plastic, and his body disintegrated so fast that they couldn't stop the machine in time to save him. The plastic he disintegrated into was then used to make plastic products.
This story gives me the biggest case of the willies.
As we fall into sequence
-Our lives are governed by many tightly controlled systems so "falling into sequence" could also mean falling into line and following the mores of society.
And we're eating our young
-Doing something shameful, but we don't notice because it's considered "normal" or choose not to notice.
Remain silent and still for modesty
-Our silence on the shameful things we do in our systems could be racked up to modesty in our debased ways.
When the splints have been broken
-Perhaps splints could be considered teachers and parents who taught us these systems, but rejecting these systems you have rendered them useless (broken splints).
And they can't help you now
-Self explanatory.
Do you pray with your eyes closed naturally
-Do you close your eyes for the shame of what you've done as you pray?
Follow me to nowhere
-As an atheist, this resonates with me, because though I've found my "truth" it leads me nowhere, the same as religious thought.
Woven with the utmost care
-The framework we use to apply meaning to our lives is woven with the utmost care, because the basic truth, whatever that is to you, is a very fragile thing and can be undone easily.
If I'm lost please don't find me
If I drown let me sink
-Our subjective truths can be so important to us that we prefer to stay "lost" and drown with them as opposed to change it
We descended from no one
With a wink
-From an atheists point of view this could be a rejection of the god concept and the wink implies that we were clever to use religion as a salve for the lack of meaning in life.
When it's cold outside hold me
Don't hold me
When I choose to rest my eyes coax me
Don't coax me
-I think the song lyrics lack the proper inflection to discern the different meanings of hold and possibly of coax. Hold me as in embrace me and hold me as in imprison me. Coax could be the difference between physically and emotionally coaxing.
Have they cleansed you with chloride
And scrubbed behind the knees
-"They" are the others outside ourselves who apply hard and soft force to "clean" you. Those what this cleansing meant to Alice Glass will probably be mystery to us.
Has your body been hollowed by the breeze
-This could be taken to mean that the "cleansing" has a negative effect that leaves you rotted and empty inside. A shell of who you really could have been if "they" hadn't "cleansed" you.
My two cents..
In the Monarch mind control slave system developed by the CIA and Project MK Ultra, "crystal" refers to a mystical part of the mind which powers the "System". Castles are a trigger which activates alter-egos in this mind control system. In the TV series "She-RA: Princess of Power" where the band got their name from, She-Ra's crystal castle is also a source of mystical power.
"and we're eating our young" This may refer to blood sacrifice, or the cannibalistic aspect of Satanic ritual abuse.
"When the splints have been broken" Broken splints could refer to personality splits.
"When it's cold outside hold me
don't hold me" Love-bombing is a mind control technique where a person is smothered with love so that this love can be later removed and replaced with ferocious hatred from the former caregiver, creating an irreconcilable contradiction which splits the victim's personality so that alter-egos can be programmed with different personalities to be controlled.
« In the fourth step, the child is starved, cold and naked. When they
finally see their beloved master or beloved adult caretaker appear
after suffering from 42 to 72 hours, they are excited and they dissociate
the pain of the previous hours of deprivation. Help appears to be on
the scene. At that point the programmer/beloved adult shows his/her
most vicious side, and the child in order to deal with how this loving
caretaker has not only rejected them but is now hurting them
dissociates along the same fractures of dissociation created by the
trauma of the premature birth.
(The Illuminati Formula to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave, page 38) »
"Have they cleansed you with chloride" Chloride causes corrosion, i.e. damage. Has their "cleaning" damaged you? This refers to brainwashing, aka thought reform.
"Has your body been hollowed by the breeze" Hollowed body evokes an empty canvas, i.e. something to be programmed, a piece of clay to be molded, etc. Breeze is metaphoric for mind control programmers, they are unseen force that can be felt.
Overall, if you watch the music video, the song seems to draw out the themes of death and the black mass (they are at a church in the forest wearing black robes, etc.), and at the end of the song we hear "I choose to rest my eyes", which could be interpreted as a suicidal message. Many victims of brainwashing and Satanic ritual abuse who are unable to cope with its horrors revert to suicide as a coping mechanism.
I wrote my last post about desensitization before the video came out. After I saw the video which seems to have religious references, I want to try to modify my perspective again =)
I'm taking the stance that the lyrics are anti-religion, anti-establishment and nihilistic . The reason for that is based on the meaning I get from the words. The whole tone makes me think she's telling us to abandon conformity and perceived righteousness embodied by the church. For example, take 'As we fall into sequence | and we're eating our young'; this opener tries to explain how hurtful and damaging our conformity (falling in sequence) is to our children. The next line 'remain silent and still for modesty' tells us that by saying and doing nothing in the face of adversity or authority ensures that you'll keep your modesty. Of course, in today's culture if you are the one shouting out or getting involved, you can open yourself up to embarassment and ridicule. This line is not alice's thoughts, it's what we're told to do by the church: be meek.
Then we are told that 'when the splints have been broken | and they can't help you now | do you pray with your eyes closed naturally' I see this as Alice trying to appeal to our intellect by explaining that when the splints (the rules, code of practice, beliefs, laws) are broken sometime in the future or through some sort of breakthrough or renaissance etc what will we do? Who will help us? Will we pray with our eyes closed as a natural instinct?
I see the next part as either one of two scenarios:
1. Alice then asks us to 'follow me into nowhere'. This being one of the nihilistic lyrics in the song, we're being led into the unknown, into the un-uniform place which may be our future: 'woven with the utmost care'.
2. Alice is quoting for the church or organised religion. They ask us to follow them but there is no heaven so we are led into nowhere, but this guidance and treachery is 'woven with the utmost care'. Obviously, people in power throughout history have spent an abundance of time trying to control the masses through the leverage of religion.
From here, I think the next lines are based around the desire to be left alone, to not be coerced into other people's beliefs. 'Lost' refers to how the religious describe people without religion, like lost sheep. 'Drown' refers to the consequences of not following organised religion, drowning in sin. It is obvious from this reference point that Alice wants to be unaffilliated to any organised religion and for those proponents to keep quiet about their beliefs. But still may be theist, in the same sense that Einstein was theist. It is also equally valid that she's outright atheist.
The next bit, 'we descended from no one with a wink' is, I think, a reference to the big bang. 'We descended from no one' - life evolved through the 'winking' of the universe into existence, not created by a God.
I can't really decipher the next chorus from my chosen reference frame, it seems like she is trying to simultaneously ask for help and deny it too. 'When it's cold outside' and 'When I choose to rest my eyes' are almost certainly metaphores. Possibly 'resting eyes' is a metaphore for 'giving up' or losing the will to live. 'cold outside' may mean when external factors are hard going, such as peer pressure or conformity pressures. Either way, I get the overall sense that she's willing her way through it, but losing that will at the last moment. Confusion.
The song's near its end. 'Have they cleansed you with cloride and scrubbed behind the knees'. As someone posted previously; maybe an allusion to holy water, or a reference to being cleaned chemically after your dead body has been found. I personally think it's the unnatural mental cleansing she refers to. We are infused with ideals, laws, beliefs, rights, wrongs, idioms from the day we're born, our natural instincts are 'cleansed with cloride'. It's a sarcastic question because it's inferring that we are now acually more dirty than before.
'Has your body been hollowed by the breeze'. Have we been made empty through the constant weathering away by the organised religions, mainstream media and social structures (the breeze)? Are we just shells walking about; like plastic dolls?
The whole album is meant to have a bleak outlook, which I can agree it does. This song stands out as one of the best for me. Bizarrely, I do see some hope resting within it.
This whole comment is based entirely on the assumptions made at the beginning. I think the lyrics could be interpreted in various way when based on a different starting assumptions.
Thanks CC for making your music.
You find your own meaning, this is mine.
"As we fall into sequence and we're eating our young"
Self-explanatory, we are falling into Their trap exactly as planned.
"Remain silent and still for modesty"
Wait for God, but that's not the way to find him. You do nothing, you will get nothing.
"When the stilts have been broken, and they can't help you now"
When you break free, you can't go back.
"Do you pray with your eyes closed naturally"
You look into nothingness and find meaning.
"Follow me into nowhere, woven with the utmost care"
Follow me into believing in God, something that was created for us to seem believable.
"If I'm lost please don't find me"
If I don't know your 'religion' or haven't 'met' God, please...don't introduce us.
"If I jump let me sink"
If I start this, let me finish. I choose to jump don't try to 'save' me. I 'recede'.
"We descended from no one, with a wink"
We don't betray God, because he doesn't exist. But he does, we just make you think he doesn't.
"When it's cold outside, hold me, don't hold me"
I'd rather be unfulfilled than held by your grasp.
"When I choose to rest my eyes coax me, don't coax me"
Don't comfort me.
"Have they cleansed you with chloride and scrubbed behind the knees, has your body been hollowed by the breeze"
Are you completely free of all 'impurities'? No.
Has it made it's way to the deepest places in your soul? No.
Have you died? No, so you will never know before then.
"Do you pray with your eyes closed naturally?" - Blind faith, jumping to conclusions; hoping for more
"Nowhere; woven with the utmost care" - This thing that appears to be nothing is also intricate and beautiful.
"If I drown; let me sink" - Let me leave if I wish to
"When I choose to close my eyes, coax me; don't coax me" - When I choose to end this, help me but do not insist upon me.
"Has your body been hallowed by the breeze?" - Are you truly gone when you no longer are alive?
Logical Synthesis: Do we naturally attempt to find blind faith (Truth that we assume true? If we do, whats to say this intricate and beautiful thing isn't just nothing at all? If I wish to leave, let me do so... Of course, help me but not urge it upon me in a forceful manner. After all, are we truly gone when we die?
I find this song speaks to me personally especially about my suicidal thoughts... I am often told I am a survivor of a harsh time; I am no such thing, I am a broken man. People insist that I need to feel what they feel, as if they were the model for which all humans feel. Blind to the truth, they remain ignorant to the pains I would feel every day and what I remember every second now. With that said, I wonder what reason they even have to stop a person from achieving peaceful serenity? This game is no longer fun for me, as it may be for you; you can feel free to enjoy it yourself but I choose to play a different one. Don't feel truly sad for me, for I would not be truly gone would I?
"and we're eating our young
remain silent and still for modesty"
Eating our young. Priests molesting children all over the world. It's a known offense, yet very little is being done about it.
The line about "modesty". Don't Priests and church staff, religious adepts have to take a bow of poverty? Or something alone those lines? I'm not versed in these matters myself.
"If I'm lost please don't find me"
Many people pray 'cause they feel they're lost. They, at least try, to find themselves in religion. Something that is, in my modest opinion, inane, nonexistent. Like the person gets lost in this world of make-believe, and doesn't wanna be found.
"we descended from no one
with a wink."
Creationism, basically.
"Follow me into nowhere
Woven with the utmost care"
Follow religion, to virtually nowhere. It's, like I said, make-believe and fairy tales. The lies were woven with utmost care (not really, though)
"Have they cleansed you with chloride"
Allusion to Holy Water?
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Either way, that's just my interpretation of the song. The clip seems to take place at some sort of church and graveyard, in some distant location. Also, the way she's dressed implies that she's "pure". There's children playing, dressed alike, etc. Like they're at some sort of convent.
Again, my opinion.
This song, though, I can't stop listening to it. It's incredible! Love CC.