When I was in the 6th form, for one class, we had to bring in some songs and talk about the meaning of them. I chose this one. The choice raised a few eye brows at any rate, as did the explanation that I gave.
I remember reading an interview with Tori in either Q or Vox magazine not long after the 2nd album came out (she was on the front cover in a white vest - a sort of homage to an advert featuring Kate Moss that was around at the time). Anyway, in the interview she talked about this song being about masterbation and how she had a crush on Jesus as a kid, so she used to fantasise about making love to Jesus (it figures - he may have been a strong male presence in her house as a child and he's always drawn to be hansome). That passage of the song seems to talk about how sex seems to be missing from the bible ("I think the good book is missing some pages"), so they are downstairs worshipping Him in one way by taking of his body (i.e. eating the bread/wafer) and she's upstair doing it in her way - taking from her body in his name (i.e. thinking about sex with him).
The "monster in our Easter dresses" is a refrence to genitals and the way they are demonised (Queens of the Stone Age did a song about a woman who had a "monster in her parasol" - again a similar concept).
The icicle could be considered phallic, or it just could be that it's something cold or, more probably, a bit of both.
When I was in the 6th form, for one class, we had to bring in some songs and talk about the meaning of them. I chose this one. The choice raised a few eye brows at any rate, as did the explanation that I gave. I remember reading an interview with Tori in either Q or Vox magazine not long after the 2nd album came out (she was on the front cover in a white vest - a sort of homage to an advert featuring Kate Moss that was around at the time). Anyway, in the interview she talked about this song being about masterbation and how she had a crush on Jesus as a kid, so she used to fantasise about making love to Jesus (it figures - he may have been a strong male presence in her house as a child and he's always drawn to be hansome). That passage of the song seems to talk about how sex seems to be missing from the bible ("I think the good book is missing some pages"), so they are downstairs worshipping Him in one way by taking of his body (i.e. eating the bread/wafer) and she's upstair doing it in her way - taking from her body in his name (i.e. thinking about sex with him). The "monster in our Easter dresses" is a refrence to genitals and the way they are demonised (Queens of the Stone Age did a song about a woman who had a "monster in her parasol" - again a similar concept). The icicle could be considered phallic, or it just could be that it's something cold or, more probably, a bit of both.