I don't understand why people consistently project Christian lyrics onto a band that... isn't Christian. Jesus-freaks - not everything is about Jesus! You need to diversify a little. There's a lot of people out there who think Miss Murder is about Jesus, (WHAT?) as well as numerous other songs they've done (the funniest one to me being The Prayer Position, in which Davey quite clearly says "I can't help but... look to my species and tremble to think that God is just." That sounds pretty decidedly un-Christian to me. Just... stop it! The "I think it's about Jesus" answers are getting more frequent and less credible than the "I think it's about a girl" answers.
Anyway, I forget who it was who nailed it, but whoever said the song is about an empath who feels other people's pain, I couldn't agree more. Someone who other people confide their secrets in, but the weight of that starts to take its toll. (Another song with a similar - albiet not identical - theme is Overexposure.) That's quite obviously what it's about, just read the lyrics with that in mind and you can see it plain as day. You don't have to stretch and contort the lyrics into fitting the Jesus theory, just let them fall into place naturally.
I don't understand why people consistently project Christian lyrics onto a band that... isn't Christian. Jesus-freaks - not everything is about Jesus! You need to diversify a little. There's a lot of people out there who think Miss Murder is about Jesus, (WHAT?) as well as numerous other songs they've done (the funniest one to me being The Prayer Position, in which Davey quite clearly says "I can't help but... look to my species and tremble to think that God is just." That sounds pretty decidedly un-Christian to me. Just... stop it! The "I think it's about Jesus" answers are getting more frequent and less credible than the "I think it's about a girl" answers.
Anyway, I forget who it was who nailed it, but whoever said the song is about an empath who feels other people's pain, I couldn't agree more. Someone who other people confide their secrets in, but the weight of that starts to take its toll. (Another song with a similar - albiet not identical - theme is Overexposure.) That's quite obviously what it's about, just read the lyrics with that in mind and you can see it plain as day. You don't have to stretch and contort the lyrics into fitting the Jesus theory, just let them fall into place naturally.