Never thought about it that way.... but I don't think that's it.
The song is dripping with references to Catholocism. Catholicism is a Latin term for "universal" religion... so there's the tie to the title of the song. Lines about "washing his feet with her tears" seems like part of the Mary Magdalene narrative in the Bible. And of course, "Screaming Magdalene". And finally, "Dropping the phone she leaves it dead to the dead men" (I hear that as the men who wrote the Bible and all the Popes and religious scholars responsible for the patriarchal society world wide). I still don't quite understand exactly where the pay phone comes in, and what that's a symbol for.
I think it's about Exene abandoning the religion she may have been exposed to as a child. And there may be some themes of rebelling against sexual repression as perhaps the catalyst for abandoning religion. "She must build her fire next to the pay phone. Heat is the point: smoke on the receiver"
Never thought about it that way.... but I don't think that's it.
The song is dripping with references to Catholocism. Catholicism is a Latin term for "universal" religion... so there's the tie to the title of the song. Lines about "washing his feet with her tears" seems like part of the Mary Magdalene narrative in the Bible. And of course, "Screaming Magdalene". And finally, "Dropping the phone she leaves it dead to the dead men" (I hear that as the men who wrote the Bible and all the Popes and religious scholars responsible for the patriarchal society world wide). I still don't quite understand exactly where the pay phone comes in, and what that's a symbol for.
I think it's about Exene abandoning the religion she may have been exposed to as a child. And there may be some themes of rebelling against sexual repression as perhaps the catalyst for abandoning religion. "She must build her fire next to the pay phone. Heat is the point: smoke on the receiver"