| The Mountain Goats – Whole Wide World Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I definitely like soicat's reading of this piece. Personally, I interpret this song as a vision of Christ on the cross. He's hanging by his hands at Golgotha, looking down on the world He has created, inhabited, and will soon be leaving. The "repercussions" dying off are the pains and imperfections of the flesh with which He has endured. As He loses consciousness, the pain of his reality dies away. Christ baptises with water, and, as His time on earth ends, He "dr[inks] in the whole wide world," the holiness of His presence withdrawing from the world to reside with the Father. The Spirit, residing within Christ at the moment in which this song takes place, baptises with fire, so it is "buring inside" of him, soon to be released. | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.