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making him look away from any proof, forcing him to solely rely on his faith. | making him look away from any proof, forcing him to solely rely on his faith. | ||
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|«''Strike me down, I am calling Your lightning down from Your dark hiding place'' | |||
''Go ahead and show me Your face»'' | |||
|Tyler is taunting God, trying to draw Him out and make Him prove Himself. What Tyler doesn’t realize is that God isn’t hiding; Tyler simply hasn’t found Him of his own accord. He resorts to blasphemy, asking for his own self-destruction. What Tyler is asking for is comparable to what was described in either Job 36 or Job 37. | |||
“Show me your face,” connects with the chorus and the previous demands for self destruction as well (“Strike me down”). It is quite likely an allusion to Exodus 33:20:<blockquote>‘But,’ he said, ‘you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.’</blockquote>Ironically, this line defies the meaning of an implicit demand. “Show me your face” is an ''explicit'' , or direct, demand, whereas an ''implicit'' demand would be indirect with only the implication of a demand. | |||
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|«Reign down and destroy me | |||
Reign down and destroy me | |||
Reign down (Reign down)» | |||
|Tyler taunts God, vying for his attention or acknowledgement by saying, “Go ahead, destroy me, then at least I’ll know you’re real.” Recognizing that God does not owe him an answer (as seen in Job 38), he may also be asking for God to destroy him as an atonement for all of his doubting. | |||
The word “reign” in these lines could have a double meaning, acting as a homophone for “rain.” Gods are usually seen as having control of the weather and the sky, bringing bad weather to punish people for things such as blasphemy. God is also known as the “King of kings,” and Tyler is asking God to actually “reign down” by doing something that only a king or a god could do to prove their existence. | |||
This could also be a nod to Radiohead’s 1997 song “Paranoid Android” where it says:<blockquote>Rain down, rain down | |||
Come on, rain down on me | |||
From a great height | |||
From a great height, height</blockquote> | |||
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