i think john andrew philot is more or less right except that his explanation is about as cryptic as the song.
the man with the red right hand is a broad metaphor for something/someone which can make you feel better but not actually make you better. perhaps something which tricks your body or your mind into feeling more at ease, drugs for example or perhaps a fashion label. things you have been convinced to like by other people and those people (the ones with the red right hands) make "stacks of green paper" out of your addiction.
i really hope thats true about this whole song being adlibbed but i doubt it.
This still holds up as the most elegant interpretation. There are many obvious ways it's representing Satan. There's some great lyrical support for the Holy Trinity and big corporations and media as well (described in many other comments).
This still holds up as the most elegant interpretation. There are many obvious ways it's representing Satan. There's some great lyrical support for the Holy Trinity and big corporations and media as well (described in many other comments).
The binding thread is things which can be subverted into self-destructive bargains in which someone wins and it's not you.
The binding thread is things which can be subverted into self-destructive bargains in which someone wins and it's not you.
For a comparison (much less creepy and dramatic, but a similar theme), check out TMBG's 'Spiraling Shape' which has a surface reading of drugs instead of the Devil, but a similar deep reading that this kind of mistake could be prompted by anything.
i think john andrew philot is more or less right except that his explanation is about as cryptic as the song. the man with the red right hand is a broad metaphor for something/someone which can make you feel better but not actually make you better. perhaps something which tricks your body or your mind into feeling more at ease, drugs for example or perhaps a fashion label. things you have been convinced to like by other people and those people (the ones with the red right hands) make "stacks of green paper" out of your addiction.
i really hope thats true about this whole song being adlibbed but i doubt it.
This still holds up as the most elegant interpretation. There are many obvious ways it's representing Satan. There's some great lyrical support for the Holy Trinity and big corporations and media as well (described in many other comments).
This still holds up as the most elegant interpretation. There are many obvious ways it's representing Satan. There's some great lyrical support for the Holy Trinity and big corporations and media as well (described in many other comments).
The binding thread is things which can be subverted into self-destructive bargains in which someone wins and it's not you.
The binding thread is things which can be subverted into self-destructive bargains in which someone wins and it's not you.
For a comparison (much less creepy and dramatic, but a similar theme), check out TMBG's 'Spiraling Shape' which has a surface reading of drugs instead of the Devil, but a similar deep reading that this kind of mistake could be prompted by anything.