prayer, yes, spot on. (i think i've mentioned those lyrics as a reference to the depressing obsession of the crucifix - that we are just as dead as that man on his stick) ...but the mars volta has just recently kicked into this notion ...they've kinda tried to bring it into the phi proportions (me thinks). "my hands secrete a monument" may refer to the many variations of the golden ratio in the human form (as cited in stinkfist), "turn around and take my hand". keeping your hands clamped together (especially with your eyes closed) denies the ability to understand that we were indeed created within the divine proportions. please check out my recent stinkfist thread:
http://toolnavy.com/showthread.php?t=73434 ...then look over tmv's latest release "amputechture" in its entirety. from "day of the baphomets":
"how long must we fold by hand
the nuns are burning wheels again
dent of mattress to make it bare
come clean with the anecdote
after all we came undone
pale of sluts with host at fault
one day we won't pay your debt
our centipedes will get theirs yet"
basically, as i've come to understand, sure, past beliefs and institutions have had their neat lil' messages, ...but 2000 years later*, i mean, we've gone well beyond the time of evolving ideas, and to remain complacent is absolutely "repugnant".
* godhead - 2000 years of human error ...i bought it a lo-ong time ago, and never listened to it (still haven't) but how relative is this to tool's music?