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"How Can This Be" that I could have been so long asleep?

"I just didn't know" is that I was not even aware of my blindness.

"Where Will We Go" if I am now awake?

"Blind organizations" is a play on 'blind trust'.

"Will of the people" is a play on 'testament'.

"Who Chose This Way" of trying to kill off God, soul, self, mind?

"Is It All Gone" such that even love becomes a mockery?

"No chest" is the nihilistic materialists who deny all they cannot touch. It is also a reference to the use of this phrase by C.S. Lewis.

"Flame down his throat" is the hedonist taking fire to his bosom but expecting not to be burned.

"Why Would He Care" since life is meaningless?

"Knob on a stick" is the scientism love of gadgets despite the obvious history of unintended consequences. People? Too messy. He prefers machines.

"Man with no head" is the modernist. He considers thinking a disease. Hard questions and difficult choices, and above all, impulse control, are beneath contempt. He is liberated, vapid, and proud.

"What Could He Lose" since he is nothing?

"Seem to be shaking" foundations.

"Should stir" up the Spirit within me.

"To Seek What's New" like an good ancient Greek. Especially given that His Nothingness is bored.

"Time Runs Us Down" in a manner frightfully like it did to all those old fallen empires.

"I watch" is a clock pun.

"Sleeper's Lament" at the trumpet sound. I was almost ready!

 
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