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Jesus Christ, that\'s a pretty face\nThe kind you\'d find on someone that could save\nIf they don\'t put me away\nWell, it\'ll be a miracle\n\nDo you believe you\'re missing out\nThat everything good is happening somewhere else?\nBut with nobody in your bed\nThe night\'s hard to get through\n\n--* asking if Jesus is missing out is implying that he must be lonely, and Jesse is relating to that. He finds comfort in others and comfort in sin. He can\'t be alone with his thoughts. "If they don\'t put me away.." is admitting that he doesn\'t have the kind of face that could save anyone. He\'s either alone or he isn\'t strong enough to pull anyone else through the veil, to help anyone, to improve anyone else\'s life or afterlife. He\'s a follower of bad ideas because he is lonely.\n\nAnd I will die all alone\nAnd when I arrive, I won\'t know anyone\n\nWell, Jesus Christ, I\'m alone again\nSo what did you do those three days you were dead?\nCause this problem\'s gonna last more than the weekend\n\n--* He\'s feeling introspective and mentally/emotionally alone, and/or physically alone because a relationship with a person ended in their separation. Like he already said, with nobody in your bed, the night\'s hard to get through. It\'s noteworthy that "lying in bed" with someone also means you are complicit in what they are doing, usually in a negative way. It\'s a lose-lose because he is really attached to his sins, he lends his his support to sinners and this combination brings him the comfort he desires. After-all, being alone is when we have to face ourselves, so, that sounds unpleasant.\n\nWell, Jesus Christ, I\'m not scared to die\nI\'m a little bit scared of what comes after\nDo I get the gold chariot?\nDo I float through the ceiling?\n\nDo I divide and fall apart?\nCause my bright is to slight to hold back all my dark\nAnd the ship went down in sight of land\nAnd at the gates does Thomas ask to see my hands?\n\n--* gold chariot and floating through the ceiling is wondering if he goes straight to Heaven for being decent enough-- a reward with no questions asked. "Do I divide and fall apart/ cause my bright is too slight to hold back all my dark." The light inside of us returns to God, from where it came. The rest of it is subject to the Refiner\'s fire ("Hell"), where it has to be burned off in the process of purification. We have to accept our wrongs and relinquish them. He wonders if the darkness will weigh against the light? Will the light, whatever STILL IS pure, transcend without the darkness attached? Will it divide from it, or will his entire consciousness be deemed unworthy at once because of his darkness? As we see, denouncing sin feels hard enough for him. If he can\'t do that 100%, is he just... out? Again, he doesn\'t want to fully change. Here he asks if a partial reward is possible.\n\nI know you\'ll come in the night like a thief\nBut I\'ve had some time alone to hone my lying technique\nI know you think that I\'m someone you can trust\nBut I\'m scared I\'ll get scared, and I swear I\'ll try to nail you back up\n\nSo, do you think that we could work out a sign\nSo I\'ll know it\'s you and that it\'s over so I won\'t even try?\n\n--* he\'s now questioning whether ANY of his light is genuine? Furthermore, can he admit his mistakes or will he continue to defend them? If it\'s really over, maybe then he could admit that he was wrong. In the present moment, he\'s gotten very good at justifying it to hold on to the comfort it brings him just a little longer. Can he continue to live in sin until whatever time he dies, or does he really have to walk away and repent TODAY, to be saved from accountability? "Nail you back up," sounds like he\'s gotten good at blaming others for his actions, and he\'s saying he\'ll do that to God Himself. He\'s so manipulative that he doesn\'t even know who to blame anymore-- or, that\'s what he tells himself. "Just tell me when it\'s over so I can finally stop trying to avoid accountability."\n\nI know you\'ll come for the people like me\nBut we all got wood and nails\nAnd we turn out hate in factories\n\nBut we all got wood and nails\nAnd we turn out hate in factories\nYeah, we all got wood and nails\nAnd we turn out hate in factories\nYeah, we all got wood and nails\nAnd we sleep inside of this machine\n\n--* Eventually, it does all catch up. "You\'re coming FOR the people like me--" the people who got away with it for so long. Everyone is complicit. Everyone is in bed together, so to speak, as wrongdoers. Everyone is going to be hit as hard as him on that day. "We sleep inside of this machine." We\'re all comfortable, and you\'re coming to change that. OR this last part could mean that he needs saving, and Jesus will return to save him from himself. He\'s concluded that he\'s damned, along with everyone else alive. When Jesus was crucified, he had come to save people, and instead of allowing this [uncomfortable] change to occur, where people fixed themselves, they killed him. But after the rest of the song, I\'m not even sure that Jesse knew what the last part meant. The entire song is very open to interpretation, wishy-washy in a very profound and self-analytical way. Basically, CAN I be saved, from MYSELF? The people were unprepared the first time you came to help, and I am one of them. I am not ready for this. |
