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A Perfect Circle – The Noose Lyrics 21 years ago
I agree with some of you that it could possibly be about a drunk driver, but I've always thought of this song as speaking to a bully of some type who provoked a suicide. Or, in general, anyone who caused a death of someone and uses religion for forgiveness.

So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out
[The person decides after causing someone's death to turn to religion to seek forgiveness and change how they treat people (completely silent now)]

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
[Uses a little bit of sarcasm to remind the person that they're not an "angel" like they think they are now after turning religious.]

But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
[Pretty much self-explanatory]

Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn before us all
So glad to see you well
[How people who turn to religion for forgiveness tend to separate themselves from their crimes/cruelty/mistakes and act as though they never happened. They become "reborn" as if they are now completely innocent and think that they can just forget about their past mistakes.]

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