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Pentecost Lyrics
Pentecost put you in a headlock
I know we never really turned out right
But good God, I'd love to see them try
To break down the drugs, the bad dreams
Run round
Sum it up into one prayer
You reach out, but nothing's ever there
So tell me what you've got to do. Tell me why
Would you push the bullet through, through your mind
Tell me what they sold to you at the altar
You were altered into white
Dear Todd, lay her in your bedroom
Cold sweat, run your fingers through her hair
Black out, see if the clergy cares to turn down the sacred station
I know the voices always seem so strange
They freak out, but nothing seems to change
So tell me what you've got to do. Tell me why
Would you push the bullet through, through your mind
Tell me what they sold to you at the altar, you were altered by the light
And it was as dark, as the demon in your mind
Dear Todd, Dear Todd, oh don't fake it
I know that you're not what you used to be
But you're as gold as they are deceived
Dear ghost, dear ghoul, let me take all that weight off of you
We could go downtown, take the one in the chamber out
We could go downtown
I know we never really turned out right
But good God, I'd love to see them try
To break down the drugs, the bad dreams
Run round
Sum it up into one prayer
You reach out, but nothing's ever there
Would you push the bullet through, through your mind
Tell me what they sold to you at the altar
You were altered into white
Cold sweat, run your fingers through her hair
Black out, see if the clergy cares to turn down the sacred station
I know the voices always seem so strange
They freak out, but nothing seems to change
Would you push the bullet through, through your mind
Tell me what they sold to you at the altar, you were altered by the light
And it was as dark, as the demon in your mind
I know that you're not what you used to be
But you're as gold as they are deceived
Dear ghost, dear ghoul, let me take all that weight off of you
We could go downtown, take the one in the chamber out
We could go downtown
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I think the other comment on this song is half right. I believe this song is about their shared internalized Catholic/christian guilt. The main character has managed to escape these internalized feelings, that Todd has not. He is suicidal, and the main character is trying to get him to recognize that the negative feelings are not coming from inside himself, by coming from the guilt related to religion. At the end, he says "dear ghost dear ghoul" and "we can go downtown". I believe these are in reference to Todd's negative views of self, and the ways in which escaping the small town they grew up in can allow Todd to escape the trauma.
It's focused on this Todd character and he seems to have turned to conservative Christianity as a remedy for drug addiction and mental illness.
The narrator seems to be an old friend who sees Todd as sort of brainwashed and by the end of the song is persuading him to go back to the reckless way he used to live.