Lyric discussion by MilkyJoe 

I agree with Lysias

How is it a happy ending?

She "crashed into the Easter Mass with her hair done up in broken glass" and then explained "how a resurrection really feels", contradicting what the Priest and deacon (and Catholic Church) traditionally teach, hence the "really". She's not sober or clean at all, the present is when she enters the church in a bad state and then she mentions her previous life.

"She's been disappeared for years, today she finally came back." When she shows up in the church she has finally hit her bottom. The line, "Holly was a hoodrat, and now you finally know that" is an acceptance of who/where she's been, but that's not who she's going to be anymore as she "walks on back" to who she used to be. It's a happy ending because she's finally self-aware, and who doesn't love a good redemption story?

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