As Heaven Is Wide Lyrics

Lyric discussion by amberyeah 

Cover art for As Heaven Is Wide lyrics by Garbage

Dual suffering. Ideally, I see this song coming from a daughter who was abused somehow by a parent in a highly religious household (religious corruption, thus wanting to be far from God, but still clinging to imbedded Christian concepts of Heaven, holiness, Hell, angels, and God's existence). Both have to live with their sins. The song makes me feel like these injustices are never spoken of either.

"Something that you said will stay with me Long after you're dead and gone " This gives me the feeling that the abuser is considerably older than the abused. And once they get to die and finally escape their suffering, the person they hurt still has to live with the pain.

"If flesh could crawl my skin would fall From off my bones and run away from here " This also might suggest the victim is physically confined somehow, by wheelchair or otherwise, though I don't think this is necessarily the case.

“As far from God As heaven is wide “ The desire to be far from God would stem from that being brought up with abuse from what was said to be a Godly person.

i pretty much agree with you even dow not everybody will accept it.the firsst time you hear this it is obvious that it is about someones betrayal.but the more i listen to it, it was sounding like a story of the feelings of a molested child, when she has grown. i believe that you're taking the "god" part too literealy.i think both the last 2 lines you quote are beautiful poetric forms, probably the best i've ever met in a rock song.both are showing how far from human the abuser had gone, and as you know that the stains always...