| Brand New – Jesus Christ Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Regardless of whose perspective from which the song is from (Martin, Jesse, etc) the song clearly expresses someone lamenting their past despite belief in a higher power. My interpretation on some theological aspects of the song that I saw (in my opinion, mis)interpreted earlier: "Jesus Christ, I'm alone again, so what did You do those three days You were dead?" I'm pretty sure that this doesn't express the speakers disbelief in the resurrection, but instead parallels the narrator's grief at a past transgression (if the Martin-as-speaker theory is correct, then grief of the death of Katie Flinn) with the days Jesus spent alone in between his death and resurrection. "Do I get the gold chariot or do I float through the ceiling?" Elijah was carried away to heaven in a chariot of fire...probably where this imagery came from. "At the gate does Thomas ask to see my hands?" "Doubting" Thomas was the disciple that swore he wouldn't believe that Jesus had truly come back from the dead until he "saw the holes in his hands." He is therefore, in Christian philosophy, a recurring example of a lack of faith. "I know you're coming for the people like me But we all got wood and nails." The narrator has already expressed belief earlier in the song that he will go to heaven when he dies ("do I get the gold chariot?"/ "When I arrive I won't know anyone."). He knows that in Jesus second coming, he will come for the believers and take them to heaven. Despite this, he follows this line with "we all got wood and nails," meaning that all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. Everyone is equally guilty of transgression and therefore take equal share in the responsibility of Jesus crucifixion. "We've all got wood and nails" because with each sin the narrator commits, he metaphorically puts a nail into Jesus hand (see: Mel Gibson nailing Jesus to the cross in "The Passion of the Christ.") |
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