I was a kid lying in my bed one night (before this song was released, I'm sure), and had just finished praying. I was a practicing Christian throughout my childhood, but this particular night was different.
I thought hard about what I had just done (knelt and talked to myself), and got a little freaked out. I thought, as Difranco put it, "What if God is just an idea someone put in your head?" After moving through the initial shock of it, I felt like someone had just unlocked the door to a cage I'd built around myself... it was the most freeing thing I've ever felt, and she captures it in this song.
I was a kid lying in my bed one night (before this song was released, I'm sure), and had just finished praying. I was a practicing Christian throughout my childhood, but this particular night was different.
I thought hard about what I had just done (knelt and talked to myself), and got a little freaked out. I thought, as Difranco put it, "What if God is just an idea someone put in your head?" After moving through the initial shock of it, I felt like someone had just unlocked the door to a cage I'd built around myself... it was the most freeing thing I've ever felt, and she captures it in this song.