It's about the total (all but 3 or 4 people) destruction of Sodom and Gomorra by God which takes place in.... Genesis or Exodus?
It's not a huge portion of Genesis, but basically God sends a messanger to the town and the villagers throw stones and want to rape and kill the messanger. One man (I think he's an innskeeper or something?) takes the messanger in and he offers his virgin daughters to the townspeople so they basically won't tear his house down and kill the messanger and everyone in the house. God obviously doesn't like the townspeoples behavior and shows his vengeful side by oblitering the town (save the innskepper, his wife and the two daughters). Well, God tells these 4 not to look back or they will feel his wrath as well, and the wife ignores this and looks back because she obviously still held attachment to her home, when she looks back she is turned to dust.
That's basically the biblical reference, and the song parallels that pretty well I think.
But yes, this is one of my favorite July for Kings songs, it's right up there with "One by One", "Anything but Beautiful" and "Bed of Ashes". If anyone has never heard a JFK song I recommend anything by them, but you can't really go wrong with the three I just listed above.
It's about the total (all but 3 or 4 people) destruction of Sodom and Gomorra by God which takes place in.... Genesis or Exodus?
It's not a huge portion of Genesis, but basically God sends a messanger to the town and the villagers throw stones and want to rape and kill the messanger. One man (I think he's an innskeeper or something?) takes the messanger in and he offers his virgin daughters to the townspeople so they basically won't tear his house down and kill the messanger and everyone in the house. God obviously doesn't like the townspeoples behavior and shows his vengeful side by oblitering the town (save the innskepper, his wife and the two daughters). Well, God tells these 4 not to look back or they will feel his wrath as well, and the wife ignores this and looks back because she obviously still held attachment to her home, when she looks back she is turned to dust.
That's basically the biblical reference, and the song parallels that pretty well I think.
But yes, this is one of my favorite July for Kings songs, it's right up there with "One by One", "Anything but Beautiful" and "Bed of Ashes". If anyone has never heard a JFK song I recommend anything by them, but you can't really go wrong with the three I just listed above.