Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun Meaning
Song Released: 1994
Covered By: Brandi Carlile (2020)
Black Hole Sun Lyrics
Indisposed
In disguise
As no one knows
Hides the face
Lies the snake
The sun
In my disgrace
Boiling heat
Summer stench
’neath the black
The sky looks dead
Call my name
Through the cream
And I’ll hear you
Scream...
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It's a sad song really. Watch the video. They are trapped. It's a cry to have the one that is to come to wash away the rain. Just remember that the one that is to come is the will seemingly have the answers--the black hole son. He has other names.
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It's about the end of the world. The people are evil and destructing the world, disguising themselves as happy and smiling..watch the video! the black hole is the sun sucking them all away. Its even too late for honest men, when the end of the world comes..because people are the snakes..the evil..the devil. and he's praying 4 the "black hole" the sun..to come out and wash them all away or suck them up already. Watch the video. That's why the little girl watches the Barbie burn as she's about to.
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The song is about Satan/Lucifer/Devil and hell. We as souls in bodies live in Satans Hell. Satan is the sun and he is the snake that tempted adam and eve to leave the spiritual state of freedom and take a ride on the satan flesh embodied carnival of hell, giving up our spiritual life for a life of illusion and forgetting our heavenly home from where we came before incarnating in satans hell. Lucifer/the sun is a heavenly body and a fallen angel of light. He is the morning star/ Day star (not venus). In our current state as flesh embodied beings, we cannot perceive that the sun is a conscious creative being. We see him as a big ball of light and fire and that is why we are mislead, he is hidden in plain sight, and he is delighted in his ability to blind and decieve billions of incarnate souls. Fire is the devils only friend. To quote blind melon from the song paper scratcher "screaming at the sun, don't really know what he has done, he don't believe in the God and world as one, so he rambles through the trees, seedy we sleep beneath the trees." A nuclear bomb recreates satans burning fire on earth. When we die, we will be released from the flesh and return back to spirit we will have an opportunity to to see Satan for what he truly is, he is the sun, and he is a black hole of evil. A fallen angel of light who wants to trap spirits in his reality and make us forget about our previous heavenly spiritual reality at all costs. Satan created death, in order for him to create death, he had to create new bodies for our spirits to incarnate into, then he created death fear by putting a mental veil into our minds so that we thought we were the body and not the spirit that transcends the body. When embodied spirits live in fear they are easy to control, so satan reveals in his ability to control and manipulate embodied spirts like puppets. Why do the mystery religions like the freemasons and many other religions worship the sun? Because they are worshipping the devil, its satanic worship, not just the image of the sun, but the spiritual truth that the sun is the light bringer, he is the God of this solar system, but not the God of the Universe. Christ tried to tell people that we are living in the devils hell. This entire solar system is lucifers domain, it his solar system, all planets revolve around him, they are also conscious beings that are trapped in satans spell. While human beings are capable creators, lucifer is able to create entire races and realities, species and his ability to create is mind blowing, and from his lofty perspective a thousand years is a blink of the eye for him, but he can also take the form of a human and he is able to have power over time and space, he can navigate space and time, because he is an arch angel of light, a son/sun of the big God, which is the great central sun in the middle of each Galaxy. There are other stars that are also "suns of God" like the arch angel michael. One star who incarnated into satans world as Jesus Christ, He wasnt very happy to see that satan had blinded all of the incarnate souls to have a "wordly mindset" that made all the people forget about the spiritual truths prior to incarnating into an earthly body. So the sun is decieving the spirits in mankind to think that this reality is the true reality. Why does the sun/Satan/lucifer/devil do this? Because he wants to be the one and only, he wants to decieve people to think that he is the God of all the cosmos, when in all truth, he is a liar. The is why its important to "be in this world but not of it" and to know that every time you look at the sun, you are looking at satan/the devil/lucifer. Sure he may feed you and sustain you in your flesh body, but that is only so that you may be his prisoner. Most people will live theyre entire life and not realize that they are living in satans hell and that satan is the sun. On the positive side, other stars in the galaxy are much more full of love and the light that they shine is kind and when you get back into your spirit body after death, you will be able to fly away from this solar system of hell and go to another solar system that would not decieve you and would not be filled with war and death. Satan uses war like how people make dogs fight, he gets a kick out of watching embodied spirits fight and suffer the miseries of war, to him its like playing chess or some real time strategy game, except that people suffer for lifetimes because of the wicked nature of his game playing.
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I think it means that he doesnt want any more stupid people on the planet that take the punishment from the authority and the authority to go away(religion, government,etc...)and the people that dont care about things but their stupid lives and he just wants all of it to go away to a peaceful world a free world, with no government, religion, war, and stupidness
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What I like about the song is that you can say what ever you think of it and if someone else says somethin' else you don't feel stupid 'cause you know how many interpretations of this their are... I know 4 right off the back of my hand
but I personally think it's about drugs or maybe just a fuck it I wanna make a song thing but it rocks man!
-The Undead RAM! -
I have followed the singer since my boyhood. I saw Soundgarten in the totally fucking godhead concert in seattle.
The singer has had a long term self and God personal accountability lament embedded in his wonderful songs. Hinting at his lost soul and knowing it, or sensing that the wicked world had left its wounds on him at the least.
I have a hunch this song is about the destruction of the world, and also perhaps the coming of the antichrist to finally finish the abuse (come on kill us already damit! kind of thing).
I'm going to post the lyrics and note along with it the clues I think I see in the piece.
In my eyes, indisposed
In disguise as no one knows
`satan walks among us in his cursed shame
Hides the face, lies the snake
`satan = snake. or the wickedness of the world = snake symbolically
in The sun in my disgrace
Boiling heat, summer stench
'Neath the black the sky looks dead
Call my name through the cream
And I'll hear you scream again
Chorus:
Black hole sun
`whereas the sun normally be God/Christ/Holiness Blackhole Sun could be the Inverse=satan. Or possibly the sun becoming a blackhole and enveloping the planets closest to the Sun. Supernova to Blackhole. or metaphorically a all darkness sweeping destructive force that consumes the Earth and Humanity.
Won't you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come
Stuttering, cold and damp
Steal the warm wind tired friend
Times are gone for honest men
And sometimes far too long for snakes
`honest men have it hard in the last days of the Earth's wickedness. Even Snakes almost have it too hard. Snakes=devils, or just evil men of the earth's wickedness.
In my shoes, a walking sleep
And my youth I pray to keep
Heaven send Hell away
No one sings like you anymore
`noone sings like you anymore=satan's old job as lead of worship for the celestial beings before he fell.
Chorus x 2
Hang my head, drown my fear
Till you all just disappear
`the singer is so sick of the evil world and the evil beings running it, he just hangs his head in dislike and fear, til the end finally comes (hurry up! he says) and it gets said and done. By the sun supernovaing and blackholing, or by the coming destruction of the antichrist.
Repeat chorus til end
Its easy to soften the heaven/hell figures by replacing either with good vs darkness in this song. Honest men vs snakes whatever the intensity of the metaphor.
Post Script:
This song ties closely with the Audioslave "Like a Stone" cut.
Like A Stone lyrics
On a cold, wet afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death
Reading how we'll die alone
And if we're good we'll lay to rest
Anywhere we want to go
(Chorus)
In your house
I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there Alone
On my deathbed I will pray
To the gods and the angels
Like a pagan to anyone
Who will take me to heaven
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago
The sky was bruised
The wine was bled
And there you led me on
(Chorus)
Alone
And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
Of all the things I've done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams until my death
I will wander on
(Chorus -
i feel it in fact this song is about a sexual reference. yes the top rated interpretation is correct. however, here is where mine deviates. "Kurt Cobain killed himself close to the release of this song. i feel as if the phrase no one sings like you anymore refers to kurts absence, and that much of the sexual reference has to do with the unfaithful behavior of courtney love. there were problems in the twos relationship and i belive this song reflects the months leading up to kurts suicide."
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It is a lovely moody song that i can let a lot out to. I would say all good songs do allow a lot of interpretations, but i feel the basic theme to be the dark night of the soul, corresponding to the image of what the ancients called a black sun but we would refer to as an eclipse. i do love songs that speak of nature and images like rain, friends, sun to covey feelings. Sometimes when i have expericenced a lot of heartbreak, i do feel like i would just like the rain to wash away the pain. Whether it is betrayal or losing a friend, or some tough situation sometimes we just want to hide away till the sun comes out again in our lives, and the hurt is eased.
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It is definitely about drugs
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This song is about a drug. yes, maybe mushrooms, but I think the black old sun is the heroin high.
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This song was written in about fifteen minutes. And in that time, he just wrote what came to mind, with no idea how huge the outcome would be. Spawning Idea's like this was no intended, but definately forseen.
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Hasn't anyone heard of Psilocybin? This song is about a specific drug. Eat a black cap and see what it does to your eyes and thoughts. That's partly the reason music was written first, then lyrics. Anything written on a mushroom is poetic and prophetic.
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My name is Mitch and I have recently been investigating the large scale brainwashing of American citizens through music, media and other sources. Here is a crazy conspiracy theory I thought up. Tell me if it sounds bogus, even though its true... Rockband has this song BLACK HOLE SUN. The power of words are more powerful than we think. The game has you sing these lyrics which are predominantly apocalyptic, asking for drought, heat, pain, sorrow, suffering, etc. This game has sold millions and it may be a very small possibility but I'm sticking to this mass delusional type idea my mind has thought up. Satan, the Devil, Michael, Lucifer, MASTER of MUSIC. cast out of heaven because of his pride. He was an angel, not just an angel, but a musical angel.... Idk maybe I'm nuts but I think I use logic about 85% of this interpretation thank you and goodnite.
P.S
Oprah is the anti-Christ,
Barrack Hussein Obauma is the false prophet/Messiah
Rev. Wright is of the Unholy trinity.
The devil is defeated through Christs blood. -
These could make sense but someone told me that the dude wrote this while he was high as shit. and if this is true, that just goes to show you how awesome music is and everyone can interpret things differently, even stuff that don't make sense.
ps- another example: stairway to heaven...search it
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