Song Breakdown: Black Snow (Hole in the Voiall bar)

zephaniah chesterfield
Jan 27, 2012
10 min read

Updated: Aug 4, 2020

Another song where i couldn't really classify any type of genre or specific way to classify it. Bearnard was saying how it's kind of almost latin guitar but with a chopped boom-bap kind of feel. Tyy said it sounds like some western duel. I don't know. It's a cool song though. Pre Charlie era, before Charlie joined up with the group.

So i was in a bar that I been meaning to get back to... "Hole In The Voiall". I couldn't pronounce it either when i first saw it. Chick named Zraela, a bartender there, said it's like "Vall" like Wall with a "V". French there's V and double V which makes sense. W's look like Double V's. She said it's also like Voilà, which means "There it is" in french. ALSO, yeah, they were thinkin' when they named this place... Void. So, there it is, a hole in the void, hole in the wall bar. In limbo, but, ok, dig it, there's 3 bathrooms and one comes out at the corner of an overpass on Brown St. Between 2nd and Front. Like, you go in the bar, and see 3 bathrooms... one door opens into a ladies room, the other into the gents lavatory, and the third opens to another world. All black when you look into there, so it's even worse if you go thru because you just come out of this void into the space under a bridge in The brick building there with the grassy trashy hill across the street has a security camera, but i don't know if it catches folks actually coming out. You might just see them walking from under the bridge. It lets you OUT there.... nothing comes in there. There's nothing there on the other side. Some ports are like that. I guess it was there when they built the place, and they built this third bathroom around it. There's always an out of order sign on it... supposed to keep people out. Now and then, she was telling me, some folks try to sneak in there, drunk and in love or whatever, and pop out under an overpass at like Front & Brown with their skirts up, pants down.... Looks like they were taking a piss maybe. I'd love to see their faces, man. Then again, it depends on what went thru. It's rare though, but if you ever see people lost down there, says they were just at a bar and they don't know how they got there.... Just beware of those people, cause they came from... somewhere else.

Anyways, so i was at that bar, "Hole in the Voiall" (Hole in the Vall) and i was talking to Scotty, who is a bartender there, about FEMA Camps. He's all into that conspiracy theory stuff. So he was saying how WAL MART is two words, and if you flip it at the FALLEN STAR, which i never even noticed a star in walmart before, but he says there was a star there before and now there's a faded light thing, blame the Mandela Effect if you like but i don't think it's a secret... but it's two words, MART and WAL, and if you flip the WAL backwards it's MART LAW, which is Martial Law, and how they're always around major freeways, train tracks, airports, or some kind of major way to ship large things in and out. I'm like, Naw dude, I've been to some that were in little hick towns with nothing really going on. He goes, "How close to the freeway was it? Or it was close to downtown?" and now that i think about it, that's kinda true, but how else do you suppose you'll get traffic there? You want it visible, close to commerce. It's a business. They're about money. Hell, a guy in jail told me they make stuff for Walmart in jail... those private corporations that own prisons? Made in America on the tags. Pretty interesting. He says they count the jail population in with the area's population, so when they do the census and break down how to allocate funds from taxes and whatever, this rich town with the prison on the outskirts but still in it's district gets money because the population is triple, even though only 1/4 of the people counted are free people. The other 3/4's are in jail. Meanwhile, the places where the folks IN JAIL came from, grew up... since everyone's in jail, their population is low, crime rate is high, so they don't get any money... increases the poverty, streets look worse, buildings fall down.... Scotty was talking about a bunch of stuff, but that whole idea of buildings being Sleeper cells, kinda, like they'll take your money for now, but when the time is right, they'll lock you up in there and then cart you off to a work camp like some kinda Hunger Games District holding pen... it was interesting. You'll have to do your research on that whole distraction from you being your self, but it sounds creepy either way.

I thought about it enough to write this. It's about folks imprisoned by the system... those who know the deal, but the people aren't ready for them to act yet. There's not enough unity yet. People still chase too much hype, believe or just accept too many lies, the slavery they're in is too comfortable and personal. That's a scary thought. So they're waiting for it all to burn, which it will. There's plans for that. Governments know how to push you into a riot to trigger things like Martial Law. They know how to release things and "information" to get people to dance... even down to making up news stories and faking events. When the cities burn? Black snow. All of the ashes. But not just the cities, because some people will get caught in it too. Disease, starvation, just caught in the crossfire and the bodies burned, sometimes just being made examples of to terrify anyone else who would stand up and fight back... it falls, black snow... Ashes to ashes, we all fall down. So, you're in a full blown post apocalyptic nightmare, but not a nightmare to you, it's "The new normal" , new meaning your generation has been re-ordered, or a new order ushered or waved or faded or slowly phased in.... to you who've been slowly conditioned to be in that and do nothing about it... and you're marching along... chained up maybe, but folks are so brainwashed now you don't even need chains... and a revolution starts. That tension right before it starts? That moment right before the first punch is thrown? The eye contact between the key figures, right before they nod and give the signal and the shit hits the fan? That's this song. As soon as the beat drops, bodies start falling, but that's what this song is about. Frickin Scotty. Got my head all filled with this crap.

I imagine that folks in that position, which is a huge public service, take it not as a service but a duty. Freedom is a serious thing. Having the space to understand and be understood is something everyone and thing should have freely. There's enough trouble with that from personal insecurities based on perceptions of beauty and preferences (sexual, religious, beers, bands, etc.) alone, and then to throw money into the mix, and to have those same issues that arise from the lack of understanding bouncing around and growing monsters in the mind is a sad thing. How that last part chains people, though, is beyond sad. I'd go as far as to say disgusting and inexcusable. No one should be in prison. Folks do things from a lack of understanding. It's a big stance to take on that, but it's as honest as i can be with that. If there was more understanding between people of people and situations, if the single point where the lack of understanding spun things out of control, leading to one act, then another, and another and another, until it's all piled up.... if you can catch and correct it about two breaths from where it starts, everything would be... different. "Better" or "worse" are matters of perception, dig me, and everyone's got a valid outlook because it's theirs. Still tho, it's cool to have an outlook that's clean... pure... unclouded, and no outside influences. Minds don't work like that since the first one was created.

Folks get "God Complexes"... I never understood that. I understand wanting to be powerful, but things like wanting to rule everything, taking over the world... that i don't get. Ok, so, you take over the world, right.... and to do it you have to kill a few continents, wipe out huge chunks of habitat, poison everything around you.... all the bombs drop, the uprisings are suppressed, your team is in power, you now run the WORLD. Not your country, the whole world. Picture that. No, really.... picture that. If you're known, everywhere you go everyone knows you are the reason why things are like this. True, it all depends on how you're running things, but I've said it and i says it again, "You please one person and you'll piss off ten. At least let the person you please be your self." The more you understand and know your self, the less likely you're gonna throw things off balance. Of course, you gotta know your SELF, like your whole true complete self... not just your ego, not just who or what you WANT your self to be. But, you run it however you will. If you think you need to be kind and generous, then remember you're the person running the world, and not everyone agrees with you doing that. If you're ruthless and heartless, remember, you're the person running the world, and not everyone agrees with you doing that. You've lived in one city, in one state, travel from time to time, you have your circle of friends. Picture standing downtown in some strange city in some strange country you've never been. But you're in charge. You might not speak the language, but you're in charge. Now what? Could be snipers on the roof... in that apartment building window... bomb at the gas station. Plenty of people would want to be you, and will try. Plenty of people don't even care about you, but you're blocking their freedom. Plenty of people are mad at you for things you've done to bring about your empire. Plenty of folks clinging to the past, to old traditions and beliefs... you're not a part of that. Plenty of folks looking to the future, but are unsure of you. All of those terrorist groups on tv? All of that stuff you see on the world news all around the world? All of the politics, economics, religion... all of the comedians on late night television making jokes about you or kissing your ass... all of the kids knowing who you are, some wanting to be you, some wanting to be better.... everyone in every prison, everyone in every country club, every law school... Problems with borders, wars between countries, starvation, pollution.... Guess who's gotta have an answer for that? That's a lot of pressure. Your team might think the same things of you. You might be in their way. Despite whatever you've done, no matter how just or hard you've been on... the world... the fact is you are not everyone, and on top of that, you are one person... vs THE WORLD. All of those governments, schools, all of those corporations and industries, stock markets, ghettos and slums, hospitals.... YOU run all of that. Good luck having a peaceful day off and going fishing in private. Sure, you can walk into any business in the world and get service and not have to pay, but if that's all you're in it for, you're not gonna last long.

Still, dig it, this is a trippy thought... Everything comes from lack. The creation of a thing comes from the lack of it. I've heard it said that "Necessity is the mother of invention", which pretty much breaks down to "There's a hole. You NEED to fill it, or you WANT to fill it. Either way, you feel and/or think it's necessary to fill the hole, so you create what will fill it. If you didn't think or feel it was necessary to fill the hole, you wouldn't fill it." I dig that. I'd even go a step further tho maybe, and say that the creation of one thing creates the opposing thing. Division is creation. Check it out, so you have Light. But Light is only light because there's darkness. Or else you wouldn't have to single it out by naming it because you wouldn't notice it because it would be all that there was. No opposing force to point it out. Freedom is another example. You wouldn't have freedom unless you were aware of the opposite thing. Even trippier... I only exist because i can point out everything that's not me. Get it? Like the air is all there is. But you only notice it because it hits things. It comes into contact with a leaf, or your lungs, and you go "What is that in my lungs, moving that leaf?" So, basically, if oneness never divided, there would be only that, which is, duh, kinda how it goes. That hole that everything comes from, that lack.... it's called perception. Perception is just another way of saying individual consciousness. So, basically, the void, the hole, the lack.... it's consciousness based. If there was no consciousness, everything would be one. Or, if you were not conscious of self, which divides you from all things, then everything would be one. That's trippy right?

So slavery, poverty, war.... starvation, murder, hell... these things point out what you are. They exist because your consciousness created them. It recognized the lack of them, and even in creating peace, you create the opposite of peace. Tricky to say war, but peace is peace, and war is war, so the opposite of those is just the opposite of those. You could say the opposite of war is peace, but it could also be negotiation or compromise, which might not be peace, but it ain't war. The individuals compromising might not be at peace, but at least they're not at war. That's a weird thing, huh? Kinda. Maybe. I dunno. C'est la vie. But looking at it that way, to balance the song, it's as much a statement between both the revolutionary and the oppressor or the cause for the revolution. All sides of the war sing this song. Why? How? Well, the war comes from two opposing sides. If there was no opposition, no opposite side, there would be no war. Might not be peace, but there would be no war. Until it was understood that that is what is needed or wanted. You can only go to war with divided parts. So, for all you know, if oneness existed, war is oneness divided, going to war with it's divided self. Who wins there?