At best, he might use the imagery to highlight the similarities of being an animal stuck in a box, and a person finding itself forced into the world by their crazy death god.
Or, he was too sensitive/afraid to discuss the song's actual anti-religious sentiment at the time. But if that's the case, then, thankfully, he got over that by the time they wrote God Am.
"I'm the man in the box"
"I'm the dog that gets beat"
Yeah, lot of calves mentioned there.
At best, he might use the imagery to highlight the similarities of being an animal stuck in a box, and a person finding itself forced into the world by their crazy death god.
Or, he was too sensitive/afraid to discuss the song's actual anti-religious sentiment at the time. But if that's the case, then, thankfully, he got over that by the time they wrote God Am.