Is It the End of The World? (Pale Horse)
10/1/2014
By Joy Lynn Clark
Pale Horse by Dazee Dizzle
All of my life it has been the end times. Religious people always point out things that are going on in the world as biblical. Everytime I hear that, it really seems to me like the start of something new. Not totally new. But new like microwave popcorn. TB is coming back. Everyone can communicate multiple ways in the blink of an eye. Masses of people could die. But that happened already, world wars, black plague.
I did not really want to get religious but, I cant help but refer to the Christian perspective that I know fairly well (as far as religion goes). The book of Revelations tells of the end times. Revelations is full of scary things like the AntiChrist (like not for Christ), there’s evil, destruction, and a chosen few.
So, I decided to look into my accepted images of good and evil. Using my favorite holiday, Halloween. On Halloween I get to dress up like the devil, or an angel, or anything I really want, and I get candy. Well, used to. How come this is not the end of the world?
We play games and try to scare eachother. We make light of all of the endtimes stuff that Revelations talks about. Leaves fall off of the trees and die. We take the guts out of pumpkins and slice them up. It’s great.
Last year it felt like the end of the world. I was locked in my room listening to horrific stories of rape, death, imprisonment, and depression. I was unhappy to be alone but I kept telling myself, “ I am not depressed I am unhappy”. You may think that it sounds depressed to you but, I have a clear definition on that. Unhappy will pass, depression needs medical attention. Clearly I was unhappy, I listened to a bunch of sad stories. Told my sad stories, and all of my family was away. I did not have anyone to lean on at the time.
As I got into writing Pale Horse I decided to examine some of the images that I have as revealed to me by Revelations. Unfortunately, they are some of my favorite images from mythology. Damn, how am I gonna justify this? Pale Horse is from the perspective of the mythological beast.
Lyrics from Pale Horse
Rode a pale horse it was a unicorn
Now they say the devil’s red
With two horns
I’m made up of rainbows
I refract through the expanse
I bounce around
And dance with sound
And move across the land
Cause it’s hard to understand
Why I just cant come back down
I’m ruler without a crown
The names change but it’s all the same
Not that different don’t be afraid
I leave the ground then touch the clouds
And make a big splash
When I come back down
These are the words that we made
Let it roll off your tongue
Like liquid
I might go to hell but oh well
I guess that means I’m wicked
If you ain’t ready for the answer
Then you should not ask
Wanna get deep
Dig into my past
Sift through the garbage
And find some trash
Want me to ask and I know that
But are you ready for the blowback
Wonder why I’m holding back
Got me in the photo mat
Rode a pale horse it was a unicorn
Now they say the devil’s red
With two horns
I’m made up of rainbows
I refract through the expanse
I bounce around
And dance with sound
And move across the land
Cause it’s hard to understand
Why I just cant come back down
I’m ruler without a crown
Brother rode a dragon
His scales are fierce
People fear the fire
But the fire’s not the beast
Z thinks I’m a giant
And I am to him
He’s a prophet new world begins
Things are just bass akwards
Got the cover
But you missing the chapters
How you come across
So stay over there
Brush your own
While I’m climbing the stair
Stay with people we hate
Say it’s good when it aches
No I can’t relate
Decide on what’s fake
When I wear my mask
It’s gon’ look great
Talk my trash that’s never been used
Just by you
I’m so blind and don’t have a clue
Rode a pale horse it was a unicorn
Now they say the devil’s red
With two horns
I’m made up of rainbows
I refract through the expanse
I bounce around
And dance with sound
And move across the land
Cause it’s hard to understand
Why I just cant come back down
I’m ruler without a crown
I’ll just laugh cause it’s sad
And sounds like the same lit
But that’s all me so I’ll speak
Dazee Dizzle’s language
That’s how much I need you
And this my love is real
If I’m spending anything on you
Take it please don’t steal
Rode a pale horse it was a unicorn
Now they say the devil’s red
With two horns
I’m made up of rainbows
I refract through the expanse
I bounce around
And dance with sound
And move across the land
Cause it’s hard to understand
Why I just cant come back down
I’m ruler without a crown
Hey lover
I miss you like I miss my mind
Got a bunch of tales
That I left behind
Been so long since I saw you
I can’t even tell the time
Wake right up
And make some
Stupid rhymes
I would rap late
But you know how that sound
I’d tell you what I ate
But that food ain’t around
Cause the whole thing is framed
In a picture that’s hilly
With a guy on the shore
It ain’t you or me
I think it’s something more
And he’s standing by a tree
I imagine his reflection
Is seen in the water
I guess it’s not a guy no more
Got a monkey on the wall
That I should throw out
But I never got a monkey before
And I know how cray that sound
It’s a first so it hangs around
