I don't think this is entirely autobiographical but I see where the correlation can be made. He stated in an interview that he doesn't believe that hell exists and this is reflected in the song:
But now you feel like a preacher
Evoking the flames of Hell
Some drunk fisherman
Chasing after the white whale
It is entirely possible that he is the "drunk fisherman", referring to his time as a sunday school teacher and now he is trying to distance himself from that life through the use of song and art:
You used to feel like the prodigal returning
But now you hate what you've made
And you want to watch it burn
I don't think this is entirely autobiographical but I see where the correlation can be made. He stated in an interview that he doesn't believe that hell exists and this is reflected in the song:
But now you feel like a preacher Evoking the flames of Hell Some drunk fisherman Chasing after the white whale
It is entirely possible that he is the "drunk fisherman", referring to his time as a sunday school teacher and now he is trying to distance himself from that life through the use of song and art:
You used to feel like the prodigal returning But now you hate what you've made And you want to watch it burn