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The Fool's Journey

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about

The basic idea of this song is that a tarot reading was done on the fate of humanity should we continue to follow our current trajectory, and it spelled bad news in no uncertain terms. However, divinations like this only portend future events should we not change our path in any way, and we ultimately have the agency to avoid negative outcomes should we decide to change our course when we foresee them. As such, the message here is not so much that we're doomed, but that we stand at a critical juncture where we have the opportunity to ultimately change things for the betterment of all. But this will require us to act. The second half of the song appeals to that agency. On the heels of the tarot reading corresponding to the initial doomed question, a second question is posed: “What can we do about this?” The result points to our own fundamental ability to self-empower.

The title of this song is a nod to the tarot. In many decks the Fool is depicted as a young individual who is carelessly about to step off a cliff. This metaphor is often used to describe the first steps of a person's magical initiation, but it is also represented in the lyrics which begin "We're standing on the precipice of our own demise, laughing in its face. It will ignore our cries".

I like the idea that our understanding of time is fundamentally flawed, and the implication that, if we can use tools like Tarot to glean the shape of things to come, it also empowers us with the agency to shift fates. Yes, the world is a bit of a dumpster fire on the broader level, but on an individual level we can affect positive change. As the writer and host of the Rune Soup podcast, Gordon White, has been quoted saying several times, "Optimism is a Spell!" We are doing a one-off shirt design based on the themes used in this tune, and you can see the full tarot reading as I envisioned it in the attached image titled "Altar the Trajectory". The song closes with a quote from Jodorowski's The Holy Mountain, a film rife with tarot symbolism relevant to this song and album.

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we're standing on the precipice
of our own demise
laughing in its face
it will ignore our cries

we're standing on a cliff
pissing in the wind
can you feel the raindrops
dancing on your chin

we're standing on the brink of total war
can you sense the blood upon the floor
we're cutting off our nose to spite our face
will we bleed out

war appears to have been waged
upon the broader whole we are
cut our nose to spite our face
foolish sullen children

truth appears to have been slain
upon the altar of the vain
vacant eyes and stagnant minds
we owe ourselves better

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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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