[kj] Butcher lyrics

Paul Rangecroft paul.rangecroft at gmail.com
Sat May 11 04:06:30 EDT 2019 

IIRC what people have said is right - the change of lyrics was a message to
his bandmates that he was about to take off to avoid the impending
apocalypse... and we all know how that worked out. Although of course he
didn't take off until the Revelations tour so that was some impressive
forward planning.

On Sat, 11 May 2019, 09:01 fatpotanga ., <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jaz spends a bit of time focussing on Butcher (and Pandys) in An
> Irrational Domian.
>
> Someone (Paul R?) typed it all up and had it online somewhere - either
> Paul or Antoni's site.
> I don't know if its still floating around out there.
>
> It's worth a read if you haven't.
>
> On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 01:58, Adam Helfer via Gathering <
> gathering at misera.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> “Out of the Virus, immunity comes”
>>
>> Jaz mentioned to me (and I think I’ve seen it mentioned publicly) that he
>> felt the  music and it’s delivery is ‘homeopathic’
>>
>> As in, subject yourself to the madness, fears, etc, to become immune to
>> it.
>>
>> So after I heard this, ‘out of the virus, immunity comes’, I felt was
>> some reference to this overall concept of his.
>>
>> Adam
>>
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>>
>> Il
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>>
>>
>> that doesn't make a ton of sense.  Out of the Virus Immunity Comes.
>> i always interpreted that line as The Butcher gets immunity...I just read
>> that the elites...the thieves liars and murderers on the earth get away
>> with butchery.   they get immune as humans are viruses.   I guess I was
>> wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>> On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 11:44, Matt Tibbits <matt_tibbits at hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>> > Actually I?d misremembered. The line Jaz sang to commit to leaving for
>>> > Iceland was ?Appointment with destiny for those who will run?, which
>>> makes
>>> > more sense. The sharp intake of breath you can hear after he sings it
>>> shows
>>> > how big a deal it was for him. ?You should know why? is still the
>>> unwritten
>>> > line though.
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>>> That's really interesting.? For some while in the 80's, Butcher was my
>>> favourite Killing Joke track.? I thought it was the distillation of Killing
>>> Joke.
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>>> Actually I?d misremembered. The line Jaz sang to commit to leaving for
>>> Iceland was ?Appointment with destiny for those who will run?, which makes
>>> more sense. The sharp intake of breath you can hear after he sings it shows
>>> how big a deal it was for him. ?You should know why? is still the unwritten
>>> line though.
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