It's a beautiful, poignant song. He's observing how religious has failed his childhood crush. She "still walks in his light" and says "the same words every night." And in return her husband drinks too much and beats her, and leaves her as the sole caretaker for their kids. She feels overwhelmed, forsaken by the Lord and suicidal. Faith is all she has to cling to, and even in a such a disappointing manifestation, it is at least something. A ritual she can go through to calm herself and feel less alone. It tells she's just being tried and it will all work out and make sense someday. Or will it? How many years and years will she pray for a better life but come home to a drunken lout who beats her?
It's a beautiful, poignant song. He's observing how religious has failed his childhood crush. She "still walks in his light" and says "the same words every night." And in return her husband drinks too much and beats her, and leaves her as the sole caretaker for their kids. She feels overwhelmed, forsaken by the Lord and suicidal. Faith is all she has to cling to, and even in a such a disappointing manifestation, it is at least something. A ritual she can go through to calm herself and feel less alone. It tells she's just being tried and it will all work out and make sense someday. Or will it? How many years and years will she pray for a better life but come home to a drunken lout who beats her?