I was having trouble figuring out just what Brian Fallon meant in the line "God's gonna trouble the water," but just now I remembered a story in the Bible (it's right at the beginning of John Chapter 5, to be specific) in which Jesus heals a sick man who always sat by a pool that, when the water was stirred up by angels, would heal whoever was in the pool, but the man couldn't walk and had no one to put him in the pool, and other people would always get in the pool before he could drag himself in. So Jesus saw this man and asked him if he wanted to be healed, and when the man said yes, he told him, "Pick up your mat and walk" and the man stood, picked up the mat he had been sitting on, and left–walking.
Long story short, the line "God's gonna trouble the water" refers to that pool that had healing powers when God stirred the water in it.
However, I'm not sure why Fallon used that line in a song about a woman, but I guess he just meant that if this girl goes to heaven before he does, God will stir the water and heal him of his pain from losing her, and heal him other times, whenever he's up, down, or level with the ground.
I was having trouble figuring out just what Brian Fallon meant in the line "God's gonna trouble the water," but just now I remembered a story in the Bible (it's right at the beginning of John Chapter 5, to be specific) in which Jesus heals a sick man who always sat by a pool that, when the water was stirred up by angels, would heal whoever was in the pool, but the man couldn't walk and had no one to put him in the pool, and other people would always get in the pool before he could drag himself in. So Jesus saw this man and asked him if he wanted to be healed, and when the man said yes, he told him, "Pick up your mat and walk" and the man stood, picked up the mat he had been sitting on, and left–walking. Long story short, the line "God's gonna trouble the water" refers to that pool that had healing powers when God stirred the water in it. However, I'm not sure why Fallon used that line in a song about a woman, but I guess he just meant that if this girl goes to heaven before he does, God will stir the water and heal him of his pain from losing her, and heal him other times, whenever he's up, down, or level with the ground.