To me this song seems to be the narrator's rejection of God in the wake of some catastrophe, perhaps the "unnatural light" and bomb-like event described in "Meridian." The last line especially, "I am life breathed in the radiant lie, God made me," seems clearly to reject the "lie [that] God made" the narrator. It's an interesting song, definitely rather mournful in tone (like most of this album) and really seems to characterize a sort of wistful nostalgia and despair over the present situation of the narrator.
To me this song seems to be the narrator's rejection of God in the wake of some catastrophe, perhaps the "unnatural light" and bomb-like event described in "Meridian." The last line especially, "I am life breathed in the radiant lie, God made me," seems clearly to reject the "lie [that] God made" the narrator. It's an interesting song, definitely rather mournful in tone (like most of this album) and really seems to characterize a sort of wistful nostalgia and despair over the present situation of the narrator.