Gasoline

Quite obviously this song is about a man who is part of a Church. "I think your drowning in holy water I think it's time we all come clean." The absurdity of holy water not making him clean means the water is tainted, or at least the person in it is.

It seems like Lacey, or whoever wrote this song or whoever is supposed to be taking the first person, knows about the secret (It could be child-molesting, it could be burning down a church, it doesn't matter really as much as the person reacting to it. My money is on child molesting due to the lonesome line.) and is facing one hell of a battle trying to point out the guy for the bastard he is (having a train going into him, catching a ghost when dead...as if that would do anything, holding on to smoke....all impossibly...or practically impossible things to do/live through.)

Notice that the man is also a taker. He won't fight for things (front lines) but will hastily take lives at the same time. He wants the spoils. Whoever is in the first person wants to know what separates him from others (great divide) which is reflected in that the crook thinks that he is special for being lonely.

But, with "I want to know what I’ve become." and the references to killing himself he may be saying he wants to be judged because he is guilty too. It may be that he has done the same thing as the crook but isn't getting away with it. This comment is more of just a jumping off point I guess.

Wait, what am I thinking? This song is a direct reference to Isben's "Ghosts"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)

The play is basically about a bunch of hypocrites. The main character's son dies from syphilis, the pastor actually burns down a school and claims it wasn't him (or believes he burnt it down, forgot which). But regardless, the mother's wishes to get rid of her dead husband's baggage fails as her son, who was shipped away off to France so he wouldn't be corrupted becomes the living ghost of his father.

The play isn't long and it was a play which tried to put a strong woman fighting all the corruption around her. As a result the critics of the time hated and loathed the play. Shows how right Isben was, doesn't it?

The "You" in the song refers to each of the characters at separate times but, more importantly, the people it refers to are the authority. Whether this is a blast at the industry, Church, or anything I don't know. But the feelings behind it are clear as well as it being based of "Ghosts".

It shorter words, "Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality." This song is a scathing commentary on the morality of now.

interesting how this song and the other new song they've unveiled both have train references...

It's not bad. I think Jesse still writes better songs than Vinnie. Vinnie's songs tend to be... strange :P

Fade away? This song better be interesting electric, it is boring acoustic.

"All the kids could tell the dog goodbye"

I think that should be "dog could bite."

Actually I think it is this:

"Before the kids could tell the dog goodbye, you were loading up your gun"

Basically meaning a dog is dying (injured/hit by car/something) the Dad or someone was gonna put it out of its misery befre the kids could say goodbye.

I also think it is "fake a way"

I agree with you on both things but someone told me to change it haha. I'm gonna go back to my original lyrics.

That makes sense, too :D

"think we're treading holy water"