The song is very enjoyable: hypnotic, a touch exotic, subtly sexy--the lyrics cryptic.
I find it easier to process on a more literal level. It's a narrative of an older man, someone close to him died, who may or may not have been a male sex partner. This loss devastates him, he has lost all faith in the world; he is a million miles away from he wants to be.
He seeks out a woman and interacts with her in um, intimate ways. For she is very skilled in what she does. Perhaps she is simply a prostitute named Jesus? Or a sex therapist or even someone who is part of a sex cult...
In her he hopes to see a savior, someone who can bring release / religious rapture through ritualized sex. However, when the climax arrives, he realizes nothing has changed. His foolish, unpretty ways with the woman only serves as a painful reminder of his barren, empty existence. she urges him to turn to the real Jesus.
The song is very enjoyable: hypnotic, a touch exotic, subtly sexy--the lyrics cryptic.
I find it easier to process on a more literal level. It's a narrative of an older man, someone close to him died, who may or may not have been a male sex partner. This loss devastates him, he has lost all faith in the world; he is a million miles away from he wants to be.
He seeks out a woman and interacts with her in um, intimate ways. For she is very skilled in what she does. Perhaps she is simply a prostitute named Jesus? Or a sex therapist or even someone who is part of a sex cult...
In her he hopes to see a savior, someone who can bring release / religious rapture through ritualized sex. However, when the climax arrives, he realizes nothing has changed. His foolish, unpretty ways with the woman only serves as a painful reminder of his barren, empty existence. she urges him to turn to the real Jesus.