| Guillemots – Kriss Kross Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Yeah, this is almost certainly about his disillusionment with God after losing somebody he loves. Probably Christianity more specifically. 'We won't be cattle on your farm tonight.' He's referring to God as if He were some kind of farmer, treating His subjects poorly like cattle - after all, if God could so easily take away somebody he loves, how could He ever truly care? He's refusing to be part of that system. 'Cos you're ugly, and you lie, and your kriss kross kriss kross'. I interpret the 'kriss kross' as God treating people like numbers on a sheet, crossing them out one-by-one with no regard for feeling - people die indiscriminately and for no good reason on Earth, and if God were truly caring, why would he treat them this way? 'When the moon's in the sky we like it, it's not gonna give us bad advice / So go dance with your thunder and lightening' We may as well pray to the moon because it doesn't pretend to be high and mighty, it's not going to teach us to follow the Christian way and pray only to find our loved ones are taken away from us. He's telling God to go and 'dance with your thunder and lightening', as if God displays all this power and might but it's all for show, because in the end, He doesn't do anything that really matters. 'And as for you, friend, high in your high home, watching us all falling down like rain. I hope you're happy, feel really holy, because your godliness has taken everything I loved on Earth tonight.' He definitely is saying 'godliness' here, it's the only word which works in context. And these lines pretty much speak for themselves. God watches us drop like flies whilst pretending to be mightly and holy. 'Nobody ever dies, they only end up in the sky, so far away'. Here he's finally back into self-denial, convincing himself of the Christian theology, letting himself believe that Heaven exists and his loved one hasn't really died, they've only moved into the sky to wait for him. This is the only way he can move on, and get past his grief. |
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