I kind of get the feeling that this song, and a few others from the Mosely era, are about Christianity, and how he's trying to convince himself it's the right way to go.
In the song, someone is struggling in life to find love and find their place in the world and is feeling empty (candle light, it burns in every hole in your eyes.). Their Christian friend is trying to convert them and trying to make them think that they will be happier as a Christian and that God's love is the only one that matters.
He is also talking about Mother Mary and how God is better than all the promiscuous sex he's having (So you thought she be sweeter than your girlfriend, Peter). Peter could be a reference to the one in the Bible or it could be the real name of the person the writer is talking about.
When he says teach your cousing to walk he could be talking about walking on water like Jesus did and now the main character is trying to convert other people to Christianity but he's really just "tearing lives apart". (These lyrics also appear in another song, R n' R, except there is no Peter and he says "teach your nephew to FART" instead of walk. I get the feeling that these were the original lyrics and they were changed to fit the Christian tone of this song)
In the end he just doesn't buy it and renounces Christianity ("Tried to control my behavior. I tried so hard, so hard to believe you, but now I live only to deceive you!").
I kind of get the feeling that this song, and a few others from the Mosely era, are about Christianity, and how he's trying to convince himself it's the right way to go.
In the song, someone is struggling in life to find love and find their place in the world and is feeling empty (candle light, it burns in every hole in your eyes.). Their Christian friend is trying to convert them and trying to make them think that they will be happier as a Christian and that God's love is the only one that matters.
He is also talking about Mother Mary and how God is better than all the promiscuous sex he's having (So you thought she be sweeter than your girlfriend, Peter). Peter could be a reference to the one in the Bible or it could be the real name of the person the writer is talking about.
When he says teach your cousing to walk he could be talking about walking on water like Jesus did and now the main character is trying to convert other people to Christianity but he's really just "tearing lives apart". (These lyrics also appear in another song, R n' R, except there is no Peter and he says "teach your nephew to FART" instead of walk. I get the feeling that these were the original lyrics and they were changed to fit the Christian tone of this song)
In the end he just doesn't buy it and renounces Christianity ("Tried to control my behavior. I tried so hard, so hard to believe you, but now I live only to deceive you!").