I'm seeing, as Conor does every so often, a use of Christian imagery in a combination of truth and satire. The first verse is intensely cynical of Christian ideology, and the line "there's a man holding a megaphone, he must have been the voice of God" is a sarcastic dismissal, in my mind, of anyone who claims to speak for God. The angels references seem to symbolize people being duped. The broken armed angel is the collapse of the illusion... but then he almost goes back on this. "It was a spectacle, no, a miracle." The rest of the song seems to involve death literally as well as figuratively the death of past personalities and the birth of the new. The last verse confuses the fuck out of me... clearly he's describing a solution, but I have no clue what it means.
I'm seeing, as Conor does every so often, a use of Christian imagery in a combination of truth and satire. The first verse is intensely cynical of Christian ideology, and the line "there's a man holding a megaphone, he must have been the voice of God" is a sarcastic dismissal, in my mind, of anyone who claims to speak for God. The angels references seem to symbolize people being duped. The broken armed angel is the collapse of the illusion... but then he almost goes back on this. "It was a spectacle, no, a miracle." The rest of the song seems to involve death literally as well as figuratively the death of past personalities and the birth of the new. The last verse confuses the fuck out of me... clearly he's describing a solution, but I have no clue what it means.