Quite obviously this song is about a man who is part of a Church. "I think your drowning in holy water
I think it's time we all come clean." The absurdity of holy water not making him clean means the water is tainted, or at least the person in it is.
It seems like Lacey, or whoever wrote this song or whoever is supposed to be taking the first person, knows about the secret (It could be child-molesting, it could be burning down a church, it doesn't matter really as much as the person reacting to it. My money is on child molesting due to the lonesome line.) and is facing one hell of a battle trying to point out the guy for the bastard he is (having a train going into him, catching a ghost when dead...as if that would do anything, holding on to smoke....all impossibly...or practically impossible things to do/live through.)
Notice that the man is also a taker. He won't fight for things (front lines) but will hastily take lives at the same time. He wants the spoils. Whoever is in the first person wants to know what separates him from others (great divide) which is reflected in that the crook thinks that he is special for being lonely.
But, with "I want to know what I’ve become." and the references to killing himself he may be saying he wants to be judged because he is guilty too. It may be that he has done the same thing as the crook but isn't getting away with it. This comment is more of just a jumping off point I guess.
Quite obviously this song is about a man who is part of a Church. "I think your drowning in holy water I think it's time we all come clean." The absurdity of holy water not making him clean means the water is tainted, or at least the person in it is.
It seems like Lacey, or whoever wrote this song or whoever is supposed to be taking the first person, knows about the secret (It could be child-molesting, it could be burning down a church, it doesn't matter really as much as the person reacting to it. My money is on child molesting due to the lonesome line.) and is facing one hell of a battle trying to point out the guy for the bastard he is (having a train going into him, catching a ghost when dead...as if that would do anything, holding on to smoke....all impossibly...or practically impossible things to do/live through.)
Notice that the man is also a taker. He won't fight for things (front lines) but will hastily take lives at the same time. He wants the spoils. Whoever is in the first person wants to know what separates him from others (great divide) which is reflected in that the crook thinks that he is special for being lonely.
But, with "I want to know what I’ve become." and the references to killing himself he may be saying he wants to be judged because he is guilty too. It may be that he has done the same thing as the crook but isn't getting away with it. This comment is more of just a jumping off point I guess.