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Choices always were a problem for you.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
What you need is someone strong to use you
Like me,
Like me.
If you want to get your soul to heaven,
Trust in me.
Don't judge or question.
You are broken now,
But faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
Let me lay my holy hand upon you.
My God's will
Becomes me.
When he speaks out,
He speaks through me.
He has needs
Like I do.
We both want
To rape you.
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes, blind me with your light now
And your lies.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
What you need is someone strong to use you
Like me,
Like me.
If you want to get your soul to heaven,
Trust in me.
Don't judge or question.
You are broken now,
But faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
Let me lay my holy hand upon you.
My God's will
Becomes me.
When he speaks out,
He speaks through me.
He has needs
Like I do.
We both want
To rape you.
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.
Open my eyes, blind me with your light now
And your lies.
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"choices always were a problem for you" - starting his "helping" by making the person feel like they are weak, stupid, in need of someone to control them or they are doomed. instead of how jesus come to us, only in love, not pointing out flaws but all forgiving.
"what you need is someone strong to guide you. like ME." - not jesus
"if you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in ME, don't you judge or question. you are broken now, but faith can heal you. just do everything I tell you too." - I is the key word here. this person is promising to have what is needed to get them into heaven. not Christ. not repentance. only by doing what this person wants them to do.
"deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow" - more belittling and making them person feel lesser.
"what you need is someone strong to guide you. let ME lay MY holy hand upon you." - obviously this religious figure is using their position as a priest to violate, instead of heal or bring people to the Lord. and let me lay my holy hand upon you screams molestation that has happened again and again inside the church, by supposed men of God.
"MY god's will, becomes ME. when he speaks, he speaks through ME." - completely taking over god's will, using that lie to deceive further. taking all the glory from God, giving credit to himself. prideful because of his position of power in the church. not because he is a holy man.
"he has needs. like I do. we both want to rape you." - and now rape is taking place and the rapist is using god to make it look like it's what is supposed to happen. it's what god wants. so it must be right. even though this is all coming from this priest, not God.
"Jesus Christ why don't you come save my life now? open my eyes, blind me with your light now. Jesus Christ why don't you come save my life now? open my eyes, blind me with YOUR lies now." - I think this is coming from the point of the victim. in the act of being raped, they are crying out to Jesus to come save them and show them the REAL truth, because what this person is telling them feels WRONG. when they say open my eyes and blind me with your lies now, I think this line is directed at the rapist/molester. almost as if after crying out to Jesus He did open their eyes and they see the person using God or Christ in the sick and twisted way they really are. they see they've been lied to.
Please your opinions are greatly appreciated, and please don't just say something like; you are confused or you are in contradiction with yourself. I agree that religion is an opiate and I've studdied sociology and am well familiar with Jung and Marx theories. i believe that religion is a man created dogma and ideology but i also feel the presence of God and the Holy Spirit as very real. I agree with Nihilist ideas that essentially morality is man made and therefore ultimately flawed, and my favourite proposition is by post-modernist Karl Popper, who basis every social structure that man kind creates be it law, a theory, and in my opinion even religious beliefs, can all be countermeasured by both the processes of conjecture and refutation. Thus to say they can be disproven to work as equally as they can be proven to work.
But Jesus as a faith means following His principles which are of Goodness... Same as the Buddha, and franky there are so many examples of people like Jesus in all cultures historical refferences as the documentary Zeitgeist will show you... The truth is that these people and Jesus all sought to abolish religion... because religion is just that, a man made ideology that has no logical basis or reasoning. The goal was to merge the people from the world into a single utopia. The idea He died for a sins can be looked at negatively because now if we sin we are automatically cleansed of our sins, but this is metaphorical and literal, for it can install the idea of true love in the heart of man. Indeed a big aspect of this is faith, but faith and spirituality are completely different things to religion. And even a band like TOOL can recognise an inteligent creator, if you listen to a song like Schism. Even this song itself doesn't Blasphemy Jesus, because they are calling unto Jesus, maybe Sarcastically maybe not, but His 'lies' could only be implied to juxtapose what he is saying. I don't like to be reffered to as a christian because of the negative connotations that word carries now. Just that I have a relationship with God.
Anyone agree? Would love to hear what you guys think and views on this matter.
To rape you.
With that line alone, Maynard isn't only focusing on religion in this song, just using it as a foundation for the song in general. It's basically making fun of those that become followers throughout life and don't think for themselves for the most part.
*"think for yourself, question authority, strive to be different, strive to be unique, Never repeat things other people say"
Karl Marx on Religion
Is Religion the Opiate of the Masses?
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Hense what the song is based upon.....
But you know what's NOT awesome? When fucking Limp Bizkit -cough-Limp Dickzit- covers this song.
Attention rap metal douche bags: you will never be as good as Tool. You should be tying Maynard's shoes with your teeth, not covering his music. Not even listening to it. Better yet, go take a long, hot bath with your toaster.
1:What you guys are saying, preacher converts person, person becomes preacher, preacher converts...
2:(my original interpretation) Preacher rapes someone, the god he worships says: "BITCH YOU'RE GOING TO HELL!" He begs for forgiveness"Jesus Christ why don't you come save my life now/Open my eye and blind me with your light now" God says:"BITCH YOU BEEN FORGIVEN, DON'T DO IT AGAIN!" Preacher continues to rape another person. This shows how people in power let off the hook easier than normal people.