It's painfully clear what this song is about. The sick exchange haunts the narrator throughout his life and is a factor in his urge toward suicide. The fear of hell makes sense, too. This was a churchgoing family, and it almost seems that the narrator would prefer suicide and hell to meeting up with a certain churchgoing family member in heaven. I don't see how Elliott could not have been abused as a child. That's the subject of the first song on his first album, and it isn't a subject that comes up at random. Somebody did something to him.
It's painfully clear what this song is about. The sick exchange haunts the narrator throughout his life and is a factor in his urge toward suicide. The fear of hell makes sense, too. This was a churchgoing family, and it almost seems that the narrator would prefer suicide and hell to meeting up with a certain churchgoing family member in heaven. I don't see how Elliott could not have been abused as a child. That's the subject of the first song on his first album, and it isn't a subject that comes up at random. Somebody did something to him.