Influence as the Forbidden Fruit [Interlude] lyrics

1.

4 February 2025 AD

To accomplish immense work, you lay brick by brick.

That’s sort of how I’ve always seen my writing career. I’m now 15 years in.

Had one thing been different, my literary output wouldn’t have reached this point.

2.

So now we’re here.

I’m a failed writer who finally resorted to a messianic claim.

You’re a humanity in shambles and chaos.

3.

When people hate something popular, they’re not always trying to be cool.

They could just hate the stench of social power on something that they themselves don’t find holy.

They barеly like it when it’s on the holy. That’s how much influеnce already strikes you as questionable.
4.

I’m the “influence itself is the forbidden fruit” prophet.

That’s as meta as it gets.

Which means I’m also a game-breaking prophet.

5.

The future of human history clearly couldn’t exist without going through a messianic anti-influencer who’s the biggest influencer of all time.

I’m like a human-sized conceptual pinhole.

Anyway, nom nom nom.

6.

Christians are already familiar with the concept of how human original sin gets on everything.

I’m just taking that stickiness “one step further” by showing you the implications of our residue.

I hope it sticks this time.

7.
You’re probably thinking:

“But Jesus, if I can’t wield influence like a machete, slashing through the vines of my own sense that I’m alone and unmoored in an indifferent universe, then…”

I never said you couldn’t gorge yourself—and us—to death. I’m just pointing something out.

8.

Kill us with all of your bad influence while you’re at it, see if I give one solitary f*ck.

Pervert your bad influence into good influence. Lead cult movements—transform all of humanity into one spellbound cult that falls at the feet of your whims—I—DO—NOT—CARE. FORBIDDEN FRUIT.

9.

I personally do not care.

I’m just saying. Someone had to be the prophet to say “Influence is T-H-E forbidden fruit” and that f*cking fell to me.

I—do—not—care. In some cases, I also happen to think you suck.

10.

To make the “forbidden fruit” metaphor land even more clearly to the lazy hazies.

Before the Second Coming of Christ, people thought “sex” was the forbidden fruit.
And yet.

And yet and yet and yet they still managed to reproduce toward eventually reproducing the Second Coming.

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Do you know some people LIVE AND DIE THEIR WHOLE LIVES WITHOUT INFLUENCING ANYONE.

DID YOU f*ckING KNOW THAT YOU GREEDY HORSELIKE WATERING HOLE AHHHHNAMULS.

[Stiffens back.]

You know… some people didn’t have sex either. Anyway, influence continues to be T-H-E forbidden fruit.

12.

You thought you were biting into an apple.

Check again.

That apple juice is Colson Lin’s urine, and you’re in the Bible. That was your bad luck.