Don’t hurt me, don’t haunt me (loops through song)
Gather up the lasting souls
Into your arms (x2)
Gather up the pitiful
Into your arms (x4)
What seems impossible
Into your arms
I think I have had my fill
Into your arms (x4)
I think I should give up the ghost
Into your arms (starts a two-part round of this over the loop)
My take on this song, after listening to it a couple hundred times ;-) is that it is about the Christian myth that Jesus will return and take the souls of the meek (pitiful) and pious (lasting). But it is also about Jesus himself, giving up the ghost on the cross. All being gathered into the arms of God.
Don’t hurt me, don’t haunt me (loops through song) Gather up the lasting souls Into your arms (x2) Gather up the pitiful Into your arms (x4) What seems impossible Into your arms I think I have had my fill Into your arms (x4) I think I should give up the ghost Into your arms (starts a two-part round of this over the loop)
My take on this song, after listening to it a couple hundred times ;-) is that it is about the Christian myth that Jesus will return and take the souls of the meek (pitiful) and pious (lasting). But it is also about Jesus himself, giving up the ghost on the cross. All being gathered into the arms of God.