12-23-2011, 10:16 PM
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Warning: video is creepy(IMO) but interesting... Not sure how the video relates to the lyrics
Queens of the Stone Age - The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
-I think this song is about the veil and an encounter with a STS entity, as well as awakening from the veil. This song is a bit abstract so its hard to nail down EXACTLY what they were talking about, so remember this is just my interpretation. For me personally, this song as well as 3 other songs from the same album were the straw that broke the camels back in terms of my awakening. (that along with Arrested Development and the Venture Brothers =OD )
The song breaks into the chorus which is used throughout, which is the feeling the speaker immediately gets and was told by pretty much everyone involved: "whatever you do, dont tell anyone, because they will just think youre crazy."
The speaker is on the verge of awakening, so he spends a lot of time trying to reflect upon himself to see where he went wrong and things go so bad. Also, now that he knows about STS entities and their games, he gains further motivation to reflect to try to find any other STS manipulations that he didn't detect in his past. He starts investigating some of what the "kooks" are saying because it sounds eerily familiar to the STS he just encountered. "I never believed them, I never assumed", is referring to the kooks that he never gave the least bit of credit to in the past (precisely my position just months ago). Suddenly he notices the lies and manipulation around him. He also notices that all these people around him are awake and aware of the planetary games, but hesitate to go screaming from the rooftops about it ("We've got something to reveal;No one can know how we feel")
He re-emphasizes how hard it is to restrain himself from telling everyone the secret... He then makes what I think is at least a double entendre(if not tripple): "And I'm taking my song to the grave" which is ironic since hes currently singing it loudly for all the word to hear, technically. The triple entendre comes with what I think the statement is really about: a tip of the cap to all the others who try to do what he does; which could be labeled semi-descriptively "The lost art of keeping a secret". Which, in a nutshell, is making a song about a secret then singing it to the sheeple, who never receive or interpret the message right before their eyes/ears because they never learn to think for themselves.
Warning: video is creepy(IMO) but interesting... Not sure how the video relates to the lyrics
Queens of the Stone Age - The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
-I think this song is about the veil and an encounter with a STS entity, as well as awakening from the veil. This song is a bit abstract so its hard to nail down EXACTLY what they were talking about, so remember this is just my interpretation. For me personally, this song as well as 3 other songs from the same album were the straw that broke the camels back in terms of my awakening. (that along with Arrested Development and the Venture Brothers =OD )
Quote:I've got a secret, I cannot sayThis is about a STS entity / group (or perhaps even an organized religion) trying to recruit the speaker. They tell the speaker "You've got something that I understand because I have it too." Then tells the speaker that he can have whatever reward the STS entity is hawking. The STS later demands a "leap of faith" and demands to know if the speaker "doubts". The speaker must have resisted, because the STS entity then does the "I can cut you out just as easily as I cut you in!" dance.
Blame modern movement to give it away
You've got somethin, I understand
Hold it tightly, caught on command
Leap of faith, do you doubt?
Cut you in, I just cut you out
[chorus:]
Whatever you do
Don't tell anyone
Whatever you do
Don't tell anyone
Look for reflections, in your face
Canine devotion, time can't erase
Out on the corner, locked in your room
I never believe them and I never assume
Still can't believe there is a lie
Promise is promise, an eye for an eye
We've got something to reveal
No one can know how we feel
The song breaks into the chorus which is used throughout, which is the feeling the speaker immediately gets and was told by pretty much everyone involved: "whatever you do, dont tell anyone, because they will just think youre crazy."
The speaker is on the verge of awakening, so he spends a lot of time trying to reflect upon himself to see where he went wrong and things go so bad. Also, now that he knows about STS entities and their games, he gains further motivation to reflect to try to find any other STS manipulations that he didn't detect in his past. He starts investigating some of what the "kooks" are saying because it sounds eerily familiar to the STS he just encountered. "I never believed them, I never assumed", is referring to the kooks that he never gave the least bit of credit to in the past (precisely my position just months ago). Suddenly he notices the lies and manipulation around him. He also notices that all these people around him are awake and aware of the planetary games, but hesitate to go screaming from the rooftops about it ("We've got something to reveal;No one can know how we feel")
Quote:I think you already know
How far I'd go not to say
You know the art isn't gone
And I'm taking my song to the grave
He re-emphasizes how hard it is to restrain himself from telling everyone the secret... He then makes what I think is at least a double entendre(if not tripple): "And I'm taking my song to the grave" which is ironic since hes currently singing it loudly for all the word to hear, technically. The triple entendre comes with what I think the statement is really about: a tip of the cap to all the others who try to do what he does; which could be labeled semi-descriptively "The lost art of keeping a secret". Which, in a nutshell, is making a song about a secret then singing it to the sheeple, who never receive or interpret the message right before their eyes/ears because they never learn to think for themselves.