The Rooster Moans

This song is so chilling. The line "Jesus weeps, but he's been paid" is so sacreligious that it just creeps me out. At first I thought this was a literal song about a trip through the deep South.

I love the imagery. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a real account or a big metaphor of doing something terribly wrong.

This song is beautifully menacing in the way John Tuturro's character from Secret Window got under my skin. It's seems to me to be about a boy's trip to the pits of despair where he'll spend the rest of eternity. It could be taken as a southern church hymnal, in that it gets you turn to away from the Devil. I don't know, but I find it to be a wonderful song.

kyle, you need to add the next line as a continuation of that thought: "Jesus weeps, but he's been paid, not to ride this dusty train"

To me, the train is symbolic of a person or place that's inherently evil, or ill-willed. It has some type of connotation to me anyways of someone doing something terrible to a child, like abuse or exploitation. Something like that.

Holocaust.

The Nazis used trains to transport Jews from ghettos to concentration camps.

Also, "Lift your head cause you cant sleep" ( forced to work) and "Bite your lip cause you cant eat" ( given minimal food)

Stow it boy, you're far from home Stow your sorrow, stow your fear What did you do to end up here?

• I feel like he is saying "what was your crime? why are you here?... you've done nothing to deserve this."

This song is about purgatory, and the trip to hell.