Lyric discussion by chacha27 

Cover art for Virgin lyrics by Manchester Orchestra

We built this house with our hands, and our time, and our blood You build this up in one day to fall downward and rust You built this house with your hands, and your time, and your blood We built this up in one day to fall downward and rust

I would say house would be like your ego, flesh that you live in you build up your ego with your time and blood, and the lyrics are talking about coming to a collapse in your life where you fall downward meaning hit a complete breaking point spiritually and mentally, rust meaning feeling dirty mentally. Where he talks about bruising maybe the person who is coming to the collapse bruised the other persons emotions and he still wants the love that hurt him to trust him and open up, but he doesn't really understand thats hes dancing on her grave 'doing his job crucify fire' the holy or insane makes me think this person is really hitting the bottom eattin up with fear which makes sense because most people have to hit a complete breaking point before they will become born again and free themselves from there past so maybe thats why its called Virgin. Very deep, but it spoke to me as that.

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