July 19th - Satanic Messiah

It's tough to know where to start with this song. It's one you feel more than hear, and one you experience emotionally. I get hit by a wave of sad and happy nostalgia when I hear it, as if something had happened and it was right that it had happened, but that it meant that a status quo I was comfortable in was ending. One of the sad but also slightly comforting things about being raised outside of any religion is that I have no firsthand expectations of what prophesied times would be. Only cultural ones. I'm not waiting for a messiah and honestly I'm not really sure what I'd do if one showed up, real or otherwise.

There's something in this song that reminds me strongly of Five Years by David Bowie. I think it's the feeling of lonely youth, gathering together for a moment that is uniquely theirs, where the world changes, where the world breaks.