I'm not unreligious. I don't think Jesse is, either. I get the impression, from a lot of his lyrics, that he thinks people can have a tendency to overdo it. I mean, when you're so batshit crazy about religion that you do something like, say, blow up an abortion clinic and kill a bunch of people, you've pretty much missed the entire point of the Bible. "Beating with a book everyone that book told you to love," type of thing. When it comes to religious undertones, this song actually has less, than some of the songs on Daisy. Really it's the beginning that made me think that, the part about saying prayers, and flames burning him in his bed. I take it it's a metaphor, and really I interpreted the rest of the song based on that, and the themes throughout the album.
I'm not unreligious. I don't think Jesse is, either. I get the impression, from a lot of his lyrics, that he thinks people can have a tendency to overdo it. I mean, when you're so batshit crazy about religion that you do something like, say, blow up an abortion clinic and kill a bunch of people, you've pretty much missed the entire point of the Bible. "Beating with a book everyone that book told you to love," type of thing. When it comes to religious undertones, this song actually has less, than some of the songs on Daisy. Really it's the beginning that made me think that, the part about saying prayers, and flames burning him in his bed. I take it it's a metaphor, and really I interpreted the rest of the song based on that, and the themes throughout the album.