i think this song is about contraception, and how we're (supposedly) extincting ourselves as a species by not reproducing enough. these guys are catholic, right? it would make sense. now, its unfair to say its just about contraception, the lyrics are an indictment of what 'love' means to people today, what love has become. this would explain all the references to love dying, being burned, crashed, shot, etc. also the line 'love became the pill...' outwardly appears to be referring to an anti-depressant or recreational drug, but i'm thinking the line may also symbolically refer to 'the pill'. i think its also interesting to note the repetition of the verse describing a child whose death was caused by someone else, the same person who is doing this 'loving'. its the only one of these verses that is repeated, maybe theyre trying to say something about a child being killed. finally, the most important lyrics in my theory:
If you take the one
and minus him by two,
You got the end of the world
before it's even begun.
take the one (one child) and minus him by two (two parents) you've got the end of the world (extinction due to negative population growth) before its even begun (if adam and eve had only had one kid, there would be no civilisation, according to christian creationism). basically i think this part of the song is referring to the belief that there is a trend in society for people to have less kids, resulting in negative population growth (this would be true if no couple had more than two kids between them, and some had less) and that if people don't follow the (may i add, catholic) belief that humans must go forth and multiply then the species will become extinct.
that's my interpretation of the lyrics, me, im an atheist and personally i believe that if we want to maintain our standard of life and not outgrow our planet we really need to have less kids, but that aside, based on my understanding that still remains are a christian band (and im guessing, predominantly catholic) that's what i think this song is about. as for the 'I can revive him with my own two hands' bit, i reckon HerEyesDestroyed is probably right.
i think this song is about contraception, and how we're (supposedly) extincting ourselves as a species by not reproducing enough. these guys are catholic, right? it would make sense. now, its unfair to say its just about contraception, the lyrics are an indictment of what 'love' means to people today, what love has become. this would explain all the references to love dying, being burned, crashed, shot, etc. also the line 'love became the pill...' outwardly appears to be referring to an anti-depressant or recreational drug, but i'm thinking the line may also symbolically refer to 'the pill'. i think its also interesting to note the repetition of the verse describing a child whose death was caused by someone else, the same person who is doing this 'loving'. its the only one of these verses that is repeated, maybe theyre trying to say something about a child being killed. finally, the most important lyrics in my theory: If you take the one and minus him by two, You got the end of the world before it's even begun. take the one (one child) and minus him by two (two parents) you've got the end of the world (extinction due to negative population growth) before its even begun (if adam and eve had only had one kid, there would be no civilisation, according to christian creationism). basically i think this part of the song is referring to the belief that there is a trend in society for people to have less kids, resulting in negative population growth (this would be true if no couple had more than two kids between them, and some had less) and that if people don't follow the (may i add, catholic) belief that humans must go forth and multiply then the species will become extinct.
that's my interpretation of the lyrics, me, im an atheist and personally i believe that if we want to maintain our standard of life and not outgrow our planet we really need to have less kids, but that aside, based on my understanding that still remains are a christian band (and im guessing, predominantly catholic) that's what i think this song is about. as for the 'I can revive him with my own two hands' bit, i reckon HerEyesDestroyed is probably right.