My favorite song right now is Mahashmashana by Father John Misty. It is one of the best songs of this decade. The lyrics are fairly cryptic, but I think I figured it out. The man and the woman in the song are giving birth to a modern Christ-like figure. The man knows the mythology of his conception and life are lies, similar to how Jesus was "born" by immaculate conception. He is the only one who knows the truth and he sings about it because no one believes. The truth is dressed up by religious fanaticism, similar to the way Trump is seen as a messiah-savior figure. The truth is that he is anything but divine, and his followers have fallen prey to the ways of the flesh, just as he had when they conceived their son. The verse is about transcending this vicious cycle of being born into the lies of the flesh, in a universe beyond. Such a beautiful song with a powerful message, and musically phenomenal.
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