This song is so... ace. It's beautiful. I heard it some time ago and learnt to play it and had been singing along to it with different lyrics, I thought the chorus was either "you'r inaugural" or "you'r in our group"! I was wrong the whole God things changes the meaning somewhat.
I must admit I was surprised to discover it was about god. I though it was some kind of Polly derivitive where it's about someone trapped in an abusive realtion ship. The bit about being in a laundry room made no sense to me. Unless there's somthing in his diaries, we'll never really know, huh. What come's to my mind is connotations of being made clean or pure and the laudry is the metaphorical place where that happens.
Much like the world where we have a variety of experiences that shape and mold us and ulitmately mature/sanctify/give us recovery (for all you 12th steppers out there ;) and some of those experiences we like and some dislike. The verses seem to describe that world, which can be confusing. At times it can be like we're stuck in the wash of life, being beaten around mercilessly by powers greater than our selves and at others it's like being in the dryer... nice and warm.
This song is so... ace. It's beautiful. I heard it some time ago and learnt to play it and had been singing along to it with different lyrics, I thought the chorus was either "you'r inaugural" or "you'r in our group"! I was wrong the whole God things changes the meaning somewhat.
I must admit I was surprised to discover it was about god. I though it was some kind of Polly derivitive where it's about someone trapped in an abusive realtion ship. The bit about being in a laundry room made no sense to me. Unless there's somthing in his diaries, we'll never really know, huh. What come's to my mind is connotations of being made clean or pure and the laudry is the metaphorical place where that happens.
Much like the world where we have a variety of experiences that shape and mold us and ulitmately mature/sanctify/give us recovery (for all you 12th steppers out there ;) and some of those experiences we like and some dislike. The verses seem to describe that world, which can be confusing. At times it can be like we're stuck in the wash of life, being beaten around mercilessly by powers greater than our selves and at others it's like being in the dryer... nice and warm.
Thanks for reading! :)