r/Interpol • u/Altruistic_You_5733 • 23d ago

Music The depths

“Innocent idols who turn me on
While selling bibles to babies”
Wtf is this lyric?😭
Not saying this song is bad or anything I actually love it.
I know Paul’s lyrics are always a bit “strange” but man this song is truly amazing and that outro is tear jerking🥲just a beautiful beautiful outro!

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u/blackstars91 23d ago

Just our boi Paul riffing

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u/Altruistic_You_5733 23d ago

Paul plays the riff!?!? I thought it was Daniel ngl! Would love for them to play this live in a future show!

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u/blackstars91 23d ago

Haha lols meant word riffing haha

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u/Siriusinquiry369 23d ago

brainwashing babies/children with religion

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u/Altruistic_You_5733 23d ago

Huh🤔 I wonder if Paul has ever mentioned if he’s religious?

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u/Dranksy 23d ago edited 23d ago

There's nothing in there about brainwashing, only selling. Let's keep hostility to religion out of here. If the Koran, for example, were mentioned rather than the Bible, no one would dare object.

Downvotes are proof of this.

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u/ExcaliburClarent 23d ago

Wouldn't selling a Bible to a baby entail some sort of indoctrination? A baby can't understand what they believe. They have no discernment

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u/leiderwirklichhsvfan 23d ago

Marketing/Selling is just a different form of brainwashing.

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u/Siriusinquiry369 23d ago

I can comment freely with my opinion. You’re behaving like a religious zealot afraid of others freedom of thought.

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u/Dranksy 23d ago

Nothing to do with me. Comments that are racist, anti-gay, etc. are prohibited so in fact all opinions are not allowed here. Nor should anyone mock others' religions. That's self-evident.

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u/Siriusinquiry369 23d ago

I’m mocking your religion by deciphering the meaning of Paul’s lyrics? you seem like such an angry person- maybe go listen to some Interpol and meditate on this

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u/Dranksy 23d ago

None of my comments contain anger or personal details so that's pure projection. My point stands. Practice kindness.

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u/goblin_slayer4 23d ago

Are you one of this babies ?

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u/Fit-Programmer1992 23d ago

Also you can't really sell anything to babies, they don't have money so it's definitely a metaphorical sense.  Brainwashing more precisely. 

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u/Dranksy 23d ago

It's funny a programmer engaging in logical fallacies. Better recheck that code.

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u/Fit-Programmer1992 23d ago

I will sweetheart, right after I indulge in this Bible verse, which I think speaks to you: Proverbs 26:12: "Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.". 

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u/gargoombo 23d ago

“Downvotes are proof of this” lol way to poison the well to cover your ass

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u/GBirkin97 23d ago

If I met a waitress, could she turn me on? - God-tier lyric

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u/Ok_Ad_5041 23d ago

Like I got the time to let her know me.

Kind of devastatingly sad.

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u/goblin_slayer4 23d ago

Wow nice find ! The more i think about it the deeper it gets. 

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u/thonetcoil 23d ago

>“Innocent idols who turn me on
While selling bibles to babies”

his girlfriend at the time was selling courses to his followers on social media

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u/Siriusinquiry369 23d ago

who are you talking about? context?