(This story has been edited to correct song lyrics and to add the album cover.)
Symbols of rebirth and transformation exist in every tradition, from the snake to the phoenix to the cross to the constellation Scorpio (if you go in for astrology).
Musicians and poets have mulled over the same ideas for as long as there’s been language, and those themes seem to be on many artists’ minds lately, even at the highest levels of the industry — just look at Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” and all its references to reincarnation and past lives…