It's a religious song. The Bible refers to the Church as the "Bride of Christ." I think it's about a guy who's struggled with women, loneliness, and life then achieved a forlorn salvation. He's not joyous, but he knows something is different.
To bury the hatchet is a common term for reconciliation, which the Crucifixion of Jesus is. The line that the "birds would have sung to your beautiful heart anyhow" sounds referential to a passage in the New Testament that if Jesus' followers would have stopped rejoicing during the Triumphal Entry, the rocks and stones would sing instead.
And the ending lines? Referential to writing of Paul. He spoke that a free man became a slave to Christ and a slave became a free man in Christ. It also refers to the idea that the unbelieving think themselves free, but a Christian knows they were always a slave.
It's a religious song, but not upbeat...because upbeat is not really the kind of songs that Nick Cave sings.
It's a religious song. The Bible refers to the Church as the "Bride of Christ." I think it's about a guy who's struggled with women, loneliness, and life then achieved a forlorn salvation. He's not joyous, but he knows something is different.
To bury the hatchet is a common term for reconciliation, which the Crucifixion of Jesus is. The line that the "birds would have sung to your beautiful heart anyhow" sounds referential to a passage in the New Testament that if Jesus' followers would have stopped rejoicing during the Triumphal Entry, the rocks and stones would sing instead.
And the ending lines? Referential to writing of Paul. He spoke that a free man became a slave to Christ and a slave became a free man in Christ. It also refers to the idea that the unbelieving think themselves free, but a Christian knows they were always a slave.
It's a religious song, but not upbeat...because upbeat is not really the kind of songs that Nick Cave sings.