I saw no one had posted so I wanted to take my crack at it. This song is pretty simple, in my opinion. It's about questioning faith/religion/etc.
Water imagery is used a lot through out the album, and in this song it represents the inkling once someone begins to question the validity of something. [Eyes following the water / As it washes my convictions away.]
The "he" in the story sees the narrator sitting staring at the lake and notices the narrator's feelings, so he speaks and helps further the process. [He stops me when I'm starting to pray / He says, "Intuition is the awakening of suspicion.]
The third verse implies that "he" used the doubt in the narrator's mind to convince them to do something that was seen as a sin in their faith. The eyes burning means they're either crying or feel like crying at committing this sin. [Eyes burning like the ashes / In submission to the heat of desire.] "He" uses cruel irony in telling the narrator not to lament their sin/consider it wrong when they just committed it. [He tells me not to preach to the choir.]
In the fourth verse, the phrase "slow decomposition" refers to the narrator's faith slowly fading away. "He" is using cruel irony again, claiming sedition ("conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch; trouble making, rebel inciting, subversion." Totally didn't have to google that.) is his religion.
The final verse sums up the song. Even though the narrator is not "he," I think the title was chosen from his POV, since a lot of people who encourage questioning religion call religion "superstition."
I think the entire album is really great both sound-wise and concept-wise. This song is relatively simple but also has a lot of depth to it. The United States is currently in this state of most everyone questioning the validity of following the rules of religion, so it's cool to have a song relevant to that status.
I saw no one had posted so I wanted to take my crack at it. This song is pretty simple, in my opinion. It's about questioning faith/religion/etc.
Water imagery is used a lot through out the album, and in this song it represents the inkling once someone begins to question the validity of something. [Eyes following the water / As it washes my convictions away.]
The "he" in the story sees the narrator sitting staring at the lake and notices the narrator's feelings, so he speaks and helps further the process. [He stops me when I'm starting to pray / He says, "Intuition is the awakening of suspicion.]
The third verse implies that "he" used the doubt in the narrator's mind to convince them to do something that was seen as a sin in their faith. The eyes burning means they're either crying or feel like crying at committing this sin. [Eyes burning like the ashes / In submission to the heat of desire.] "He" uses cruel irony in telling the narrator not to lament their sin/consider it wrong when they just committed it. [He tells me not to preach to the choir.]
In the fourth verse, the phrase "slow decomposition" refers to the narrator's faith slowly fading away. "He" is using cruel irony again, claiming sedition ("conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch; trouble making, rebel inciting, subversion." Totally didn't have to google that.) is his religion.
The final verse sums up the song. Even though the narrator is not "he," I think the title was chosen from his POV, since a lot of people who encourage questioning religion call religion "superstition."
I think the entire album is really great both sound-wise and concept-wise. This song is relatively simple but also has a lot of depth to it. The United States is currently in this state of most everyone questioning the validity of following the rules of religion, so it's cool to have a song relevant to that status.