I think the song is a bit more about loss then religion. ABsence, not god. It's hard to explain. It's like all she does is think "Why?" And the only answer she could think of that is even close to possible, is blame god, the thing that is already to late, and is already to corrupt for her to believe whole heartedly, especially because if this is true, all he's done is hurt her. No one wants to beleive in cruelty to that degree.
@thembraincells I completely agree. In the first part she refers to God from an agnostic point of view: he’s a myth, she’s cynical.
@thembraincells I completely agree. In the first part she refers to God from an agnostic point of view: he’s a myth, she’s cynical.
But in the second part:
But in the second part:
It's the way mothers greet their sons
When it's a moment too late.
It's the way mothers greet their sons
When it's a moment too late.
The immediate image that jumps to mind is that of a mother over a casket. Perhaps maybe the most unabidable shriek imaginable — of a parent losing a child? The heartbreak, the horror. And below that, crying :
The immediate image that jumps to mind is that of a mother over a casket. Perhaps maybe the most unabidable shriek imaginable — of a parent losing a child? The heartbreak, the horror. And below that, crying :
It's the law of the land
That sometimes the dam just breaks.
It's the law of the land
That sometimes the dam just breaks.
And then:
And then:
And God gives and then he takes.
From me.
She starts off “inconsolable” and a bit jaded, but when she’s encounters that unsatisfactory situation/reality, it’s so tragic and desperate and unfathomable, that in an almost sick way, imaging a “God” is a comfort. Even if it’s a negative-coded comfort, it’s still better to channel that anger to something you’re not comitted to, than to accept that the dice just roll that way sometimes. It seems so personal and painful, that she would rather have an angel of some kind of accountability than total chance and bad luck.
I think the song is a bit more about loss then religion. ABsence, not god. It's hard to explain. It's like all she does is think "Why?" And the only answer she could think of that is even close to possible, is blame god, the thing that is already to late, and is already to corrupt for her to believe whole heartedly, especially because if this is true, all he's done is hurt her. No one wants to beleive in cruelty to that degree.
@thembraincells I completely agree. In the first part she refers to God from an agnostic point of view: he’s a myth, she’s cynical.
@thembraincells I completely agree. In the first part she refers to God from an agnostic point of view: he’s a myth, she’s cynical.
But in the second part:
But in the second part:
It's the way mothers greet their sons When it's a moment too late.
It's the way mothers greet their sons When it's a moment too late.
The immediate image that jumps to mind is that of a mother over a casket. Perhaps maybe the most unabidable shriek imaginable — of a parent losing a child? The heartbreak, the horror. And below that, crying :
The immediate image that jumps to mind is that of a mother over a casket. Perhaps maybe the most unabidable shriek imaginable — of a parent losing a child? The heartbreak, the horror. And below that, crying :
It's the law of the land That sometimes the dam just breaks.
It's the law of the land That sometimes the dam just breaks.
And then:
And then:
And God gives and then he takes. From me.
She starts off “inconsolable” and a bit jaded, but when she’s encounters that unsatisfactory situation/reality, it’s so tragic and desperate and unfathomable, that in an almost sick way, imaging a “God” is a comfort. Even if it’s a negative-coded comfort, it’s still better to channel that anger to something you’re not comitted to, than to accept that the dice just roll that way sometimes. It seems so personal and painful, that she would rather have an angel of some kind of accountability than total chance and bad luck.