I’ve been wondering this for years. What is that preacher-sounding guy in this song saying (it’s not Ed Kowalczyk)? None of the lyric sites have these lyrics included. The points in the song that they appear are between 3:29 - 3:39, and again at the very end of the song, 4:48.
“I warned you, I prepared you, I instructed you, I told you what to expect, all the times and seasons…”
Then, “You yourselves know… that the boat?..”
I would be ecstatic if someone could help decipher these words for me or if anyone knew a site!!! Thanks.
“The day of the Lord so cometh” could not be correct, or I just can’t see it being correct, because there is only one syllable between “That the…” and “so cometh”. It sounds like “boat” to me… what do you think?
There is definately not enough syllables between “the” and “so cometh” for it to be “The day of the Lord so cometh”. And isn’t there a “that” before “the day”? I think it’s “That the day so cometh”.
But now that I listen even closer, the “o” sound is a muffled “a” sound (day), which I didn’t realize before this thread, Thanks.
The snake handler that Ed sampled in the song is from an obscure radio broadcast he heard and is saying: “You yourself know serpents. That the day shall come, shall come, shall come, shall come.”
It’s not Jim Jones and it’s not Ed. It’s a sample Ed heard and thought was perfect for the song.
The uncut version runs about 6 minutes. Most version on the internet are edited to about 5 minutes and this sample isn’t even there. Here’s the uncut version and at the end the sample of the evangelical snake handler Ed heard on the radio can be heard. Ed didn’t even know who the guy was but thought the sample would be great for the song.
