VERSE 1: An exemplary Christian friend is getting ready to abandon and shun a friend who has made a stand against the church and town they both have grown up in together. But before he does this he decides to warn and help the friend in a cold and calculating sort of way.The "Good Christian Friend" is a mechanic who is working on the "Troubled" friend's car, "Your horse is ready to ride when morning comes"
CHORUS: "It won't go away."
"It" = "The fever to find a scape goat fast and fix the blame"
VERSE2:The fever is WHAT won't go away. The fever that is the urge the "Troubled Friend" will develop to avenge himself or the want to kill himself.. "I know, you never meant to leave the way you came" means that the "Troubled Friend" is being banished from the town he was considered a something of a "foriegner" or "outsider" in.
BRIDGE: "Looking down from the stain glass steeple, they'll never know why you had to run"= In small towns there are those who are not in control yet thy are priveleged; in most cases they are the women, the children, the retarded, the very old, etc. the ones who believe everything they hear from the pastor. They are the weakest of the towns-people and the servants of the Christian church; they are THE FLOCK and are the characters who make up Bazan's "STAIN GLASS STEEPLE". They'll never know why he had to run because it's easier that way for them, to be in denial about the fact that they have an inability to accept a different type of person into their community.
CODA: "Ride as fast as you can they're shootin' to kill" = This one speaks for itself. The "Good Christian Friend" is telling the "Troubled Friend" to get the hell out of town before it gets worst. It is also an emphasis of the "Good Christian Friend's" selfish want to get rid of the "Troubled Friend," making it that much easier for him to cut his ties with him and go on living in the town.
Bazan is a genius at storytelling; perhaps I'm a bit off in my interpretation, but still, there's a real story going on. And it's obviously being told by the "Good Christian Friend" who is quite a bit double sided in his understanding of the single and most crucial skill of which must be developed in order to maintain survival in Christian-Small-Town-America, DON'T FUCK WITH THE CHURCH.
VERSE 1: An exemplary Christian friend is getting ready to abandon and shun a friend who has made a stand against the church and town they both have grown up in together. But before he does this he decides to warn and help the friend in a cold and calculating sort of way.The "Good Christian Friend" is a mechanic who is working on the "Troubled" friend's car, "Your horse is ready to ride when morning comes"
CHORUS: "It won't go away."
VERSE2:The fever is WHAT won't go away. The fever that is the urge the "Troubled Friend" will develop to avenge himself or the want to kill himself.. "I know, you never meant to leave the way you came" means that the "Troubled Friend" is being banished from the town he was considered a something of a "foriegner" or "outsider" in.
BRIDGE: "Looking down from the stain glass steeple, they'll never know why you had to run"= In small towns there are those who are not in control yet thy are priveleged; in most cases they are the women, the children, the retarded, the very old, etc. the ones who believe everything they hear from the pastor. They are the weakest of the towns-people and the servants of the Christian church; they are THE FLOCK and are the characters who make up Bazan's "STAIN GLASS STEEPLE". They'll never know why he had to run because it's easier that way for them, to be in denial about the fact that they have an inability to accept a different type of person into their community.
CODA: "Ride as fast as you can they're shootin' to kill" = This one speaks for itself. The "Good Christian Friend" is telling the "Troubled Friend" to get the hell out of town before it gets worst. It is also an emphasis of the "Good Christian Friend's" selfish want to get rid of the "Troubled Friend," making it that much easier for him to cut his ties with him and go on living in the town. Bazan is a genius at storytelling; perhaps I'm a bit off in my interpretation, but still, there's a real story going on. And it's obviously being told by the "Good Christian Friend" who is quite a bit double sided in his understanding of the single and most crucial skill of which must be developed in order to maintain survival in Christian-Small-Town-America, DON'T FUCK WITH THE CHURCH.