His heart is heavy, he cries out in pain, and when he does so it's in the name of a god that is not his own: Jesus Christ.
and can't stop blaspheming as she's doing it, because it hurts, and people cry out when it hurts.Īnd I'm sure that's exactly what he's talking about. This after the last verse always makes me smile, because I can't help thinking about the scene in the Blues Brothers where they're getting beaten by the nun for swearing. There is also a play on the religious never sparing him from verbal beatings for his behavior. "Never for me" divorces the speaker from all of it. The person administering the beatings being well-dressed contrasts the poverty advocated in the Bible, demonstrating his true aim and his fraudulent nature. Spare the rod, spoil the child (Proverbs 13:24). "Some other man" is markedly dismissive, driving home the falseness of Christian beliefs, as well as divorcing the speaker from those beliefs.
What can be seen by her "sharp and steady", incisive and fearless eyes is his despair at the hatred caused by the beliefs he has abandoned. "Empty parts" because his foundational education and upbringing were removed, leaving nothing upon which to build his identity. With the hate of some other man's beliefs. She can innocently have sex, and be sexual: A rarity after Christianity. "The perfect creature rarely seen" is perfect because she is shameless, and filled with wonder, by her own sexuality. It is implied that sex was shameless and innocent before God, or Moses, started telling people what to do. This contrasts with the guiltless, innocent sexuality of Adam and Eve in the Garden. The Israelites were commanded to wait at the foot of the mountain in celibacy for three days before Moses brought down the Ten Commandments. Men being "free" before the revelation makes one consider that the Israelites were then fleeing slavery from the Egyptians, but managed to be enslaved by God (or Moses, the "liar"), before reaching their destination. The "thunder" is the thunder, or voice of God, above Moses on Mount Sinai before he brought down the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19). "Shameless wonder" evokes Genesis 2:25, in which Adam and Eve, innocent in the Garden, did not feel shame in being naked. Line-by-line with accurate lyrics, for anyone interested in the details: It condemns the abuse of human beings advocated by religion, and aims to escape it. It laments the difficulty of rooting out cultural hangover.
It admits the confusion inherent in not having solid rules to follow. It points out religion's corruption of sex from a pure and innocent to a shameful and vulgar act. It posits that the people claiming to speak for God are liars aiming to enslave the majority of humanity with the motive of their own financial gain. It also condemns the notion of original sin, and elevates sex to a religious experience. The song is about the uncertainty, isolation, and loneliness he feels upon abandoning the Catholic Church, and the culture it created. The stresses evoke the rumble crash rumble rumble crash of a thunderstorm, and it is gorgeous. I'm killed by the poetic meter of this lyric. With the hate of some other man's beliefs
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