Enoch 18:14
Lyrics
I saw some old friends as I came to the city gate
They asked me where I'd been of late
I hadn't been anywhere but what was I going to say
Two hopeful people looking at me that way
You and your brother
You both escaped the curse
You can't comprehend what it's like
We stood in the sunlight and they asked me where I'd been
Held the gate open, told me to come on in
I saw the damp green grass so nice on the other side
Couldn't explain myself to them but I tried
You and your brother
You both escaped the curse
So you can't comprehend what it's like
Ground was dry but giving, the sky was nearly black
Saw some old friends when I looked back
Remember my old home, haven't forgotten yet
What happens on the day when I forget
You and your brother
You both escaped the curse
So you can't comprehend what it's like
Banter
- This is a song - you find out a thing happens, you can't bury your references anymore in the age of the internet, people will just take the phrase that sounds weird and plug it into Google, and find out what it is in seconds. I am hoping to one day run across a text so obscure that it is indexed nowhere, and then steal the entire thing and make it the song. But until that day comes, I have to come clean about choruses that I lifted from places, and this is from a video game called Odin's Sphere. [Audience cheering] Oh man, I feel bad for people clapping for Odin's Sphere, that game is torture. You go, oh, I was supposed to pay my taxes today, but instead I spent 9 hours playing Odin's Sphere. DId you get out of hell after they turned you into a rabbit? No. I didn't. But I did pull up plenty of the fruits that grow in hell secretly that you can get if you know where they're located, because you recognize the little popping things that come up when the fruit's underneath the soil in hell are...at? So the thing about Odin's Sphere is that there are long cut scenes. It's a Japanese game, and the cut scenes are like, 10 minutes long. And the first couple times you come to one, you think, cut scene, you are too long. But the game is not going to hurry along for you, and so you get accustomed to it. And then the thing happens that was supposed to happen, which is you become emotionally involved. With a plotline that's not incoherent, but too complicated to follow. It's like two Russian novels stacked one on top of the other. And but these people occasionally deliver these lines with such - uh - a wound in their voice, you know, I had it programmed so I would hear it in Japanese and read the subtitles on the screen. And the chorus of this song is one moment where a person who's got fumes rising from them - that means they live in hell - reminds a couple of people that their condition in life is a little different from hers. (2009-12-01 Webster Hall)
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