They lull him to a queasy sleep that brings forth monsters: a scarlet devil, beasts with horns and pizzles that assail him as the score snarls and snickers.
He tramples beneath his feet a skeleton and a devil-beast, representations of death and sin.
Stripped down to the simple colors of black, red, and white, the stomach-less angel and devil-beast looming over candles (maybe it's his birthday?) are made all the more anxiety-inducing with the added flashing of the GIF.
The song is about "living in a big city which devours you like some gigantic beast, like the devil who knows your weak spots," explains Nedosekina.
"At my studio back in Cardiff, the walls swarm with a cast of hermits, angels, penitents, devils, wild beasts, and anchorites," wrote Clive Hicks-Jenkins during a visit to Prague.
"He'll fight man, beast, devil or god".
Would it curse him as a "fiend," a "devil," and a "beast" without taking the time to truly get to know him?
Anyway, what most people understand about London – the devil and the beast – is that anyone living in one of the city's many many shitholes is doing so by necessity alone.
Literal depictions of God and the devil, angels and beasts, torments and blessings remove all sense of mystery from John's imagery.
Christian pastor Keith Swanson has revealed Satan's latest plan to indoctrinate our children and turn us all gay, and Lord the devil is a crafty beast.
