Lyric discussion by BodhiJones777 

Cover art for Three Days lyrics by Jane's Addiction

The 1st problem a would be interpretor runs into is operating on an assumption that the poetry is attempting to relay a complete, coherent, thought as opposed to building a trance like state using fragmented notions of mystic experiences & induced hysterics ,& the estatic ecstasy of religious psychosis ...

For 3 days , Christ laid dead & entombed ... 3 days when shadow & light became one ... Because they cease to exist for a dead man ... 3 days before the dead man, forsaken by the father,enters his 3 state , the Holy Ghost ... Shadow & light separate again as the new incarnation awakens to what it remembers as cricket bows ...

All of it with the surrounding context of a loved one coming to their father's funeral. The beginning is the shaman's welcome to the ritual he prepared to mark the transformative occasion. Sex , drugs, music, & mantras are the shaman's tools to reach a trance like state's of ecstasy ... Ritual is used to mark the transformation of one state to another.... The music dynamics build & intensify... Finally settling into a violent ,driving. rhythm, just prior to the rapture of the final release... Transformed ... All now with wings ...

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Religious Symbolism
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Ecstasy