The meaning of Epiphany is really blatant . It's just that you don't know for sure that ' they ' are the ' elite ' , so then it's practically ' throwing shade ' at them . I already covered the intro the intro to this song in a lengthy post . If you haven't already , you can read it here :



So basically , the song was made to make you realize the truth about the world we live in . After the deep intro the verses get into an even deeper meaning . The first verse doesn't really have any double meaning . It means exactly what it says , your trying to get by in life , but that's hard to do since everybody is troubled and it's tearing the world apart . You never knew it was this hard but you see it finally , that's the first of many needed epiphanies .
But then it goes onto the second verse , seeming like Coke is almost taunting the blind person , but calling somebody a bitch is a good thing in hip hop , right ? I don't know , but anyways , the second verse's lyrics go on with the line | You know this ain't where we're supposed to be , | But you're being normal , so you must be free ... | The previous line makes a little more sense with these lyrics . But the important part of the lyrics is | But you're being normal , so you must be free ... | . To understand what she means by that you have to know a few things . Not much , but something .
Basically the whole NWO thing is to make everyone ' one ' . That's how it's going to be advertised when the government finally decides to come public with it . It's gonna be a method that will make us all one . Sounds good right ? Because when you think of becoming one , you think of teamwork , peace , putting differences aside and blah . That's why it will be so appealing to so many people when it finally does come out in the open . But what they mean by one , is not that everyone will be one big team as it will be perceived by many . But basically , everybody will be one person . Everybody will do the same things . Wear the same clothes ( Hints uniforms in schools . Pretty much preparing the next generation for it ). Have the same opinions . I even heard that the NWO was going to come out with one religion that will please all . ( Which is impossible since there are so many different beliefs . From Atheism to Sun worship . ) Why ? Because 1 is easier to control than 7 billion people . I mean , I know it may sound like I'm pulling this out of my ass . Because even if this was true , it doesn't even sound that bad . Again because you have the ' Lets all be one big team ! ' idea stuck in your head . Well if it wasn't so bad , why do they have to plan this out in secret ? And for anyone to mention it and/or speak against it to be looked down upon as crazy or a fool ? Think about it . If this was something that was supposed to bring ' world peace ' , CNN would be giving us daily updates on how the plan is going . But no . Instead it's labelled a conspiracy and is planned in secrecy .
When it finally comes out and everyone is accustomed , everybody will think of it as ' normal ' . Like they think of the life we have now . Go to school , go to work , get married , have some kids , ship them off to school and then die . Such a wonderful life full of spontaneity , am I right ? Because that's what everyone is doing . And I can't say there is really anything wrong with that lifestyle . ( Well , I can , but when you have no choice , there's no point . ) It's just that it is forced upon us . How can you call that free ? What's the choice in that ?
You can tell this is exactly what Rum & Coke meant in this song when they move on in the bridge to point out the EXACT SAME THINGS . What i wanted to point out in the bridge is the part , | They say you only see , exactly what you choose ... | That's why you're seeing | The optical illusions | That you blindly concurred to ... | At first it goes off an old saying , telling the person that you already knew this ' inside ' , but you just didn't want to believe . What I mean by ' inside ' , is the subconscious part of your brain . Things all around us as in music , business logos , movies , school , ect. , feed our subconscious and influence it to be ready to accept this stuff and push the truth aside , therefore we cause ourselves to be blind 99.9 percent of the time . That's why you need to feed your conscious the truth so you can eliminate whatever is programmed in your subconscious , but that takes an epiphany . | But fear not ... I got you , always . | Fear not ... I'm your soul and I'll never fade ... | Fear not ... | You just have to face your epiphany . |

3. Failed Escape Dissociation

So now we get into the deep stuff . Before I start on the song , you guys need to know some background info . You all remember Project MKUltra ? No ? Then let me run down the basics for you . 1953 through 1973 the U.S. Government ( the C.I.A. branch ) picked a bunch of innocent people to use as an experiment of mind control . It was supposed to create ' alters ' ( They aren't necessarily the same but think of alternate egos that A LOT of singers have today . Hmm , I wonder why ... ) in the victim by using a series of methods using the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals , hypnosis , sensory deprivation , isolation , verbal and sexual abuse , as well as various forms of torture . After being halted in '73 , many believe that it stills goes on today . I , myself , believe that too . Except that it's not always just done to random people . It's now done to people that seem to have some type of significance or high rank in the world , but notably , people in Hollywood .
These people are taught to turn into this ' alter ' whenever told to and when they are in ' front alter ' ( themselves ) or even in another ' alter ' , to dissociate with the real world and go on a little fantasy . That way they keep themselves trapped in this little fantasy and not realizing that they are under mass control and what they are involved in is plain evil . And if this fails , then they train the ' alter ' to dehumanize . Which means they tell the alter that they aren't a human , but a man made object with no brain of its own , ( And sometimes an animal ) but most importantly no feelings. Things like a mannequin , an android ( robot ) , and so on .
This is exactly what Coke is talking about in ' Failed Escape ' . She even uses the phrases , dissociate , sail away , reverie , follow the white rabbit , conscious is ' clear ' , forgetting wrongs ( Possibly just woke up from an alter ? ) , follow the yellow brick road , and somewhere over the rainbow . You noticed a few famous lines from Alice In Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz , right ? Oh , that's because these movies were made on THE SAME TOPIC . ( Alice ran away from a stressful situation and saw a white rabbit , followed it and ended up in a fantasy world . Dorothy ran away from home , sang ' Over the Rainbow ' , and then got knocked out a few minutes later on into the movie where she dreamed that she was in a fantasy world . ) Accept for those movies were promoting it and are constantly using it to trigger MK'd people into a reverie , this song was made to give that person an epiphany on how stupid of an idea the whole dissociating thing is . She even says that herself in the lines | It really doesn't make much sense | It's just a failed .... | Escape | and ends the song off with the same lines almost as if the person knew this but still does it anyway , making it seem less logical than before . Almost like when a girl makes a song about how a guy treats her so wrong , but makes her feel good , but then breaks her heart , but he still makes her feel so good . Anybody with common sense would be all like , " Oh , that makes so much sense ... " . That scenario gets played out so much . Seriously . Like OK , we get it . If you're going to continuously make a dumb decision , will you please stop complaining ? But anyways , that's what Failed Escape was trying to get across . After all , dissociating yourself from reality seems like a good plan of escape ... until you find yourself back in reality .