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Archonic Manipulations

from LUX by In the Company of Serpents

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This is running with the Gnostic idea that we're trapped in a spiritual prison of sorts, and that the demons/prison wardens (the Archons of the song title) are constantly engaged in keeping us thoughtless, disengaged sheep. The lyrics are a call for us to engage directly & presently with our lives, and thus regain some semblance of what lies in our true spirit. The "chorus" (if you want to call it that) of the first half of the tune is "The machinations of control/ Hiding in plain sight/ Gilded Bars upon our cage/ Slip them and take flight", and is very much in line with that notion. The mystic Gurdjieff remarked that most people are dead, or asleep, to their own innate spirituality and/or our souls. Only by directly engaging with the world around us, particularly when the gilded bars of our cage are so lovely and comfortable, can we regain our sense of spirit.

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Slough it off
As though it was dead skin
That you shed
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The machinations of control
Hiding in plain sight
Gilded bars upon your cage
Slip them and take flight

Lose the past
For the moment we’re within
There’s only now
It’s all there’s ever been

The machinations of control
Hiding in plain sight
Gilded bars upon your cage
Slip them and take flight

Pernicious strategies
Meant to mold the free
Into compliant drones
Shirk them, you’re not alone

There is no form which binds
The truly boundless mind
Unbridled by constraints
The path of shifting fates

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from LUX, released May 15, 2020

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In the Company of Serpents Denver, Colorado

IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS traffic in sonic catharsis. Their music inhabits the strange fringes between sludge metal and sprawling spaghetti western scores, constantly striving for visceral power and raw intensity, contrasted with eerie, spare instrumental passages.

Grant Netzorg: vocals and guitars

Ben Pitts: Bass & Lap Steel Guitars

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