I think song has to do with Christian dogma. First of all, Father's Son resonates with Jesus, son of the Father, God. Bread can feed a few goes with the breaking of the bread. Catholics feed upon the bread every mass, the bread being the body of Christ. The virgin gun is Mary. A gun can also be a feminine symbol, not just a phallic one. A gun can be loaded with bullet, the same way a woman is filled with the seed and "loaded" with baby. Mary is the gun and Jesus is the bullet because under His and His father's name, people have started wars and death, thus the birth of Jesus is compared to the firing of a gun. The Gods fighting ringside is the many aspects of God (Christian God, Jewish God, Allah) and the wars between the people who believe in each aspect. The boy addressed later in the song is Jesus; "steady boy watch them pray, to you I suspect." This song is about Jesus, what him and his mother stand for, but also how we humans have taken this and twisted it for our own human/selfish needs: war, debauchery, etc.
I think song has to do with Christian dogma. First of all, Father's Son resonates with Jesus, son of the Father, God. Bread can feed a few goes with the breaking of the bread. Catholics feed upon the bread every mass, the bread being the body of Christ. The virgin gun is Mary. A gun can also be a feminine symbol, not just a phallic one. A gun can be loaded with bullet, the same way a woman is filled with the seed and "loaded" with baby. Mary is the gun and Jesus is the bullet because under His and His father's name, people have started wars and death, thus the birth of Jesus is compared to the firing of a gun. The Gods fighting ringside is the many aspects of God (Christian God, Jewish God, Allah) and the wars between the people who believe in each aspect. The boy addressed later in the song is Jesus; "steady boy watch them pray, to you I suspect." This song is about Jesus, what him and his mother stand for, but also how we humans have taken this and twisted it for our own human/selfish needs: war, debauchery, etc.