"I'm dangling from the towers I built to save my life" that has to be one of the most fantastic lines of all time. The part about "kissing you to the tree" is as you have mentioned a judas refererance. What he's saying(less poetically) Is could it be I've played the role of Judas, betraying jesus to die on a tree by a kiss. That symbol of betrayal through a kiss is just bitterly ironical. To think we would betray the God of the world, our creator and saviour through a physical symbol of love is so sickening. It's a brilliant play.
The grateful bastard son is the child who doesn't belong to the father but is accepted anyways. So in that idea we as christians are bastard sons of God, because he took us from the world of sin(which we were born into) and brought us to himself. We all should be grateful bastard sons, not supposed to be there but grateful for the love and acceptance we get.
The song says he's not the grateful bastard son, but the rich and spoiled one... that means he's the son that has been there all along... (Through, perhaps, church or christian upbringing) and yet despite always being a 'child of God'(i know... that's not technically possible... but yeah) he doesn't do anything about it.
It's about getting comfortable with your faith, and realizing your faith is weak. Great song.
"I'm dangling from the towers I built to save my life" that has to be one of the most fantastic lines of all time. The part about "kissing you to the tree" is as you have mentioned a judas refererance. What he's saying(less poetically) Is could it be I've played the role of Judas, betraying jesus to die on a tree by a kiss. That symbol of betrayal through a kiss is just bitterly ironical. To think we would betray the God of the world, our creator and saviour through a physical symbol of love is so sickening. It's a brilliant play.
The grateful bastard son is the child who doesn't belong to the father but is accepted anyways. So in that idea we as christians are bastard sons of God, because he took us from the world of sin(which we were born into) and brought us to himself. We all should be grateful bastard sons, not supposed to be there but grateful for the love and acceptance we get.
The song says he's not the grateful bastard son, but the rich and spoiled one... that means he's the son that has been there all along... (Through, perhaps, church or christian upbringing) and yet despite always being a 'child of God'(i know... that's not technically possible... but yeah) he doesn't do anything about it.
It's about getting comfortable with your faith, and realizing your faith is weak. Great song.