Cruxshadows - The Seraph Meaning
The Seraph Lyrics
Black and deep and cold
Burning for the choice I made
So many years ago
And love will keep me tethered
For my wings are stripped of flight
But into my mad deluded world
They cross the battle lines
Into their...
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This song, in my opinion, is about Lucifer.
It's about a fallen Seraph, a member of the highest choir of angels who fell to 'sin'.
It's obvious he's a seraph, or was.
"My body's made of fire
Black and deep and cold
Burning for the choice I made
So many years ago "
this section alludes not only to his 'body of fire', taken from the biblical description of the Seraphim as snakes of pure fire. The second section makes it clear that he's a fallen Seraph (a Balseraph, technically), suffering for a long-ago choice.
The fact that they're talking about Lucifer, once an archangel, and the most beautiful of angels is indicated, to me, in:
"
The punishments I carry now
Are of my own design
For once I brought the hand of God
And now this gift is mine"
once having been an archangel, he 'brought the hand of god', but he had fallen because of his own willful pride, and carries that punishment. The 'gift' he refers to may be the Apple of Wisdom, knowledge of pleasure and pain that he tempted humanity into consuming (or gifted to us, almost like Prometheus in some versions of the myth)
Apocryphical tales of The Fall have the archangel Michael ripping one of Lucifer's wings off as he was thrown out the gates of Heaven, which may find meaning in the line:
"And love will keep me tethered
For my wings are stripped of flight
But into my mad deluded world
They cross the battle lines "
he refers to the delusions of godhood of the First of the Fallen, who thought himself equal to God.
I think it's a fairly clear interpretation.
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