I try not to think as Cornell's lyrics as religious because i read in an interview that he didnt care about religion or something like that. But these lyrics speak a lot of the final days of Christ to me. He had many followers in his lifetime whom he refered to as his sheep. Underneath the arch he found the spark to set this fucker off could be that last night before he was arrested and he spoke with God and now had the spark to set off the way to heaven. Then in the next verse a shot ripped into his heart, i think this could be when he took on all the sin of the world and his heart was no longer pure. He then cried out to God and asked "why have you forsakened me?" (in need of some attention). Then he played his card which was his death, to which Satan expected victory, but lost the hand as he was overcome in Christ's death. The last thing that he said was "it is finished", but Cornell translated it to it just being the beggining "set this fucker off." Then it gets down to the bridge with "Jesus at the back door" Instead of upstairs or downstairs, heaven and hell could be depicted as the front and back door with earth, and what we know being inside. Christ went to hell after his death, before resurection. Jesus refered to himself as "the way, the truth and the life" and therefore, is the direction yearned for. Everything we don't know turns into a revelation with what we don't KNOW being what we might believe, or our faith, which will become a revelation to us all only upon our own demise. So it all adds up inside our heads to believe while we still can because time is waisting, and death will come. And then he finishes to say what he's been saying all along. Set it off, which i believe is his command for everyone to make disciples of the world, calling us his children, significant because we are to view God or Christ as our father.
I try not to think as Cornell's lyrics as religious because i read in an interview that he didnt care about religion or something like that. But these lyrics speak a lot of the final days of Christ to me. He had many followers in his lifetime whom he refered to as his sheep. Underneath the arch he found the spark to set this fucker off could be that last night before he was arrested and he spoke with God and now had the spark to set off the way to heaven. Then in the next verse a shot ripped into his heart, i think this could be when he took on all the sin of the world and his heart was no longer pure. He then cried out to God and asked "why have you forsakened me?" (in need of some attention). Then he played his card which was his death, to which Satan expected victory, but lost the hand as he was overcome in Christ's death. The last thing that he said was "it is finished", but Cornell translated it to it just being the beggining "set this fucker off." Then it gets down to the bridge with "Jesus at the back door" Instead of upstairs or downstairs, heaven and hell could be depicted as the front and back door with earth, and what we know being inside. Christ went to hell after his death, before resurection. Jesus refered to himself as "the way, the truth and the life" and therefore, is the direction yearned for. Everything we don't know turns into a revelation with what we don't KNOW being what we might believe, or our faith, which will become a revelation to us all only upon our own demise. So it all adds up inside our heads to believe while we still can because time is waisting, and death will come. And then he finishes to say what he's been saying all along. Set it off, which i believe is his command for everyone to make disciples of the world, calling us his children, significant because we are to view God or Christ as our father.