holy shit I just realised something and I don’t know if I’m really stupid and have just missed it while everyone knows or not but even if this is obvious, I feel like analysing stuff so here we go :D
the song ‘Help Me Faith’ is supposed to be a cult song, in support of Eden’s Gate, yes?
but it also works against the cult too?!
“I once was a child with innocent eyes” - Faith came to the cult, not knowing of the horrors that were there, and she was so innocent in some terms that she was easily manipulated and pulled in too
“My family swore they knew best for my life” - the Seed brothers, specifically Joseph, swore to Faith that he knew best for her, swore that he was just making her do these things because it would better her and free of her sin
“I followed their rules” - obvious
“the shackles I wore can’t be touched nor be seen” - she wore her invisible shackles in her childhood and teenage hood, yes, but she also has them on with Eden’s Gate because Joseph put them on her, chaining her to the identity of Faith and keeping her on a pedestal with the threat of killing her like the other Faith’s
“when I grew old, I was riddled with sin” - when she grew a bit older with the cult, she was full of the sinful deeds she did for Joseph and all the horrors she herself has put on other people
“locked my soul in the dark, never let the light in” - she never let anybody see her plight, never went back to her old friends (Tracey), never let any of the people pull her from the cult. Her old self was locked up inside her and never let out
“I crawled towards the gate with little time left I cried ‘what have I done?’ as I took my last breath” - This whole verse reminds me of her boss fight with the deputy - near the end of it, she screeches out that she didn’t want any of this, that Joseph made her, which is the only time we see her show regret about all these things that she has done. The mentioning of the gate reminds me of the setting of the boss fight, in the bliss, near the gates.
Anyway, I love analysing shit, it’s my inner English student that hasn’t been let out since secondary school