My personal take on Nazareth:

For a while now since I first heard Nazareth, I've been so bothered by the line "see if she could guess what a Hollow-point does to a naked body" there are a plethora of interpretations about this song saying it's a sexual thing or that Vessel is SA-ing or killing a prostitute. But I finally sat down to try and think about what this song really means (in my own interpretation at least, so if you disagree with them, feel free to do so and let me know your own thoughts. Also, English is not my native language so if there are punctuatios and grammatical errors, let me know.)

Nazareth is one of Sleep Token's earliest works, and to me, this song paves the way of showing what the rest of Sleep Token's discography is about.

Nazareth is a song that addresses the subject's arrogance, how Vessel is warning her of what's to come ("knocking on your bedroom door with money, building your kingdom"), what she made him do, and what her actions had led herself into ("Dripping from the open mouth, I'll show you what you look like, from the inside").

A hollow-point is a type of bullet which expands on impact with a soft target, transferring more or all of the projectile energy into the target over a shorter distance. Hollow-point bullets are designed for controlled penetration, ensuring collateral damages are minimal or prevented. It's designed to hurt. Not kill.

Vessel is not killing her, he's torturing her. And he's making sure she feels every bit of the agony. The fact that this song sounds and feels so chilling with the vocals and music alone emphasises Vessel's "Wrath". Buth it's not just any wrath... It's a silent one. The song was designed to set a scene, to gently provoke his subject, letting her know he means business. A threat and a warning in a form of a haunting serenade.

He is angry. He does want to harm her in a way, but not to the point of ending her life. Just to the point where she understands and feels how he felt when she gave him the same pain. In the line "I'll show you what you look like from the inside", Vessel wants to project the same abuse and pain he experienced in the past onto her by silencing her as she had done to him before,(the line "make her eat the tape IN the bathroom mirror" could also be interpreted as being invalidated and gaslit into silence, so it's less being physically silence and more being forced to submit INTO silence and complasancy), make her stand bare before him (the line "see if she could guess what a hollow point does to a naked body." Could be interpreted being emotionally vulnerable and raw) as he did for her and have her forced to take all the pain and abuse like he had done for her before.

For me, Nazareth is about how even when Vessel had all the right to take the life of someone who caused him pain and suffering, to bring down his wrath onto the subject, he still chose to preserve it. To me, this is what the line "Patient Violence" was referring to in Take Me Back To Eden.

Again, these are solely my personal view of the song Nazareth any and all form of interpretations are welcomed and respected.

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