Strictly reading it without any reference (having unsuccessfully tried to find the Manson Murders statement on deadboyandtheelephantmen.com), I would've interpreted some of Dax's childhood indoctrination into his mother's Jehova's Witnessing and separation from his more liberal father -- images of his mother enforcing stereotypical stifling religious views, denouncing such things as the father's liberalism, and threatening the child himself with judgement spring to mind -- which would thoroughly explain a desire to take time in your own soul, possibly die there when a late-nite movie convinces you that your inherited faith is riddled with hypocracy.
Strictly reading it without any reference (having unsuccessfully tried to find the Manson Murders statement on deadboyandtheelephantmen.com), I would've interpreted some of Dax's childhood indoctrination into his mother's Jehova's Witnessing and separation from his more liberal father -- images of his mother enforcing stereotypical stifling religious views, denouncing such things as the father's liberalism, and threatening the child himself with judgement spring to mind -- which would thoroughly explain a desire to take time in your own soul, possibly die there when a late-nite movie convinces you that your inherited faith is riddled with hypocracy.