Secular Haze - Commentary Version

There's a lyrical meaning and there's a musical, dramaturgical thought
It has a sort of carnival theme
Which was not really intended to be carnivalesque or in, in a circus sort of manner
Sort of maritime, because it's moving waves or...

There's a saying that if you freeze to death
It is, uh, apparently one of the, the most pleasant of deaths
The closer you come to the actual point of death
You all of a sudden could go warm, and the acceptance of death
This uh, apparently overwhelming, and quite, uh, comfortable

The song was supposed to feel like you were basically in a stormy sea, freezing to death
So it being very like monotonous and non-stop stormy
Whereas in the end you sort of come into this sort of acceptance, uh, part
Which is the 'come rest eternal' part in the end

Lyrically deals with, uh, as with most of these songs
With the-the-the presence of a force that is recognized as evil
The hedonistic signs
That we are progressing towards a darker future