Burning Flag Birthday Suit
Unveiling Ghosts: Guided by Voices' Burning Flag Revelation
Lyrics
Don't open life alone
Encourages not facing life's challenges alone.
Contact the empire solutionaries
Suggests seeking help from those with solutions.
They cut the skin
Refers to a process of cutting through superficial layers.
They peel back the onion
Symbolizes revealing deeper truths or aspects.
Reveal the ghost blood
Describes exposing hidden emotions or secrets.
Fat black gas exudes
Depicts the release of a dense, dark substance.
Moves into the mirrored hall of empty values
Refers to entering a space of empty and meaningless values.
Canned sister Iowa
Mentions a person or entity from Iowa in a canned or packaged form.
Drive me to the changing room
Suggests being taken to a place of transformation.
Where the counterfeit meets
Highlights the intersection of the real and the fake.
And brings it's collection of orphans
Bringing together a group of abandoned or neglected things.
Leave them in the state grip
Leaving the collected items under strict control or influence.
The nurses hate them
Suggests disapproval from caregivers or authorities.
But it's up to you and me
Shared responsibility to provide positive influence.
My faithful sin-eater
Refers to a partner in taking on the burden of others' sins.
To give them a glorious light bath
Tasked with giving those in need a spiritually cleansing experience.
And remove their wrapping
To help them shed their outer layers or burdens.
Their burning flag birthday suit
Describes the exposed and vulnerable state of those helped.
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