Federico Pistono

• Band :: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Song :: Static
• Album :: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Disc 1)
• Length :: 22 minutes 36 seconds

References ::

• Official website
• Wikipedia Entry
• Last fm Entry

This monologue is a true piece of art. The band is Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and I will report as it follows verbatim, for I believe any word would be utterly meaningless if trying to explain the profundity of the text.

Monologues - Hung over as the queen in Maida Vale
this monologue is taken from the track gybe! performed in session for John Peel, broadcast on January 19th 1999.

...prepared in innocence to meet our king of glory
and so we have this

you have it in your secret windows
and you're understanding to understand it and to bring it forth
it takes minute detail
it takes a holy life
it takes emotions
it takes dedication
it takes dedication
it takes a death
and only god can allow it

and you couldn't do it if you're not the seed of god
and so the path through the great corridors
these are corridors unto his perfection
that is which the prophet and the oarman summoned has penetrated
that through this great sea of blackness
that i penetrated through these corridors
and i went through that last segment
where i went through these dark serpentines
i passed through that corridor

where they sat
where they are
and when you penetrate to the most high god
you will believe you are mad
you will believe you've gone insane
but i tell you if you follow the secret window
and you die to the ego nature
you will penetrate this darkness
oh yes there's many a man or woman

that's been put in the insane asylum
when this has happened to them
and they're sitting there today, people think they're insane
but they saw something that's real
and they see it when they're on drugs
the only thing is they see it
not through the light of god, and the way i show you
i show you to see it through the light of god
and the understanding of god

because when you see the face of god you will die
and there will be nothing left of you
except the god-man, the god-woman
the heavenly man, the heavenly woman
the heavenly child
there will be terror under this day of night
there will be a song of jubilee waiting for your king
there will be nothing you will be looking for in this world
except for your god

this is all a dream
a dream in death

and so i went through that window
and the tower of hell and the great serpentines of the highest order
and i went through that when i showed you chart #3
the question is asked and learned and someone who is concerned with the pimp:
that if the right question is asked,
I will show you unspoken words that've never been spoken,
they're not even in the Bible...

(huge thanks to tim miller for transcribing this).
Source Brainwashed