Very Dahl as the intersection between the Old, and New Testaments

Very Dahl is the most ostensibly theological of the works of Tommy Dockerz. Towards the end of the song, clearly mirroring the darkness of a world without Christ, one is balefully told, “no dahl, there’s no tone”. No dahl is our descent into nihilism – our gazing at a hall of mirrors reflecting pure nothing, or its spiced lentilly entrails.

But after this hopelessness, a word, a cry: “Revolutionary Nephilim, Evolutionary Chromosome”. This is the incarnation itself, passing from Old to New Testament. The Nephilim – the race of giants who stampeded the earth – are passing away, giving way to the Son’s reign over all the earth.

The brute, modern force of the incarnation in its Kettering dwelling is then signaled as the counterpoint to this Nephilim, as the perichoretic nature of Mr. Dockerz trying to “find a way in a manger” […] “the white Jesus, that game-changer” enters the scripture of the rap.

Or, any interpretation we make of whatever Tommy Dockerz is talking about is valid. The lyrics trick us into interpretation, operating at the level of sub-sense. Just when we think we have teased out meaning in his idioglossia, it is us all along who has been teased,