few years back when I listened to this song much more, I felt a lot of meaning to all of the parts.. Here are some insights:
Companions since birth in this stagnant dingy haunt:
companions, means he was always a hero of the singer, who was suffering this 'stagnant dingy haunt', perhaps some sort of horror or psychosis
He never really lived:
The singer thinks Jesus was a good person, but from all his good doing, he missed all the fun things in life..
Last night I beat him, as he would not leave:
The singer hates jesus for being more beautiful than himself, so he beats and rapes him in envy.
He curls up like a fetus and paints his face with sadness:
this response of jesus makes him even more interestin, beautiful and good willing character.. finally making even the singer shed a tear of remorse
I bandage his wounds, I kiss the face of jesus christ, but he is dead:
The singer takes remorse, but he's too late, jesus has died, and his faith has no more meaning..
Called yourself messiah, expected me to follow:
His beauty should have been obvious sing to follow, instead the singer became envious of it, trying to take the beauty away instead of taking it as an ideal for himself
I will bury him not, as an insult to your face:
the singer chooses not to forget the death of jesus, instead he thinks to keep it as a sing of victory, for he was able to take away the beauty..
One detail disturbs me, his cold, stark finger points where I have not been..:
Worn out of the battle against the beauty of jesus, the singer takes one more look at the body, and sees a sing, to get any true rest from his life, he too must die, at a place he has never visited, in his otherwise familiar backyard.
No more to offer, but this flesh to the soil, and a single tear marks my final prayer. Rosebud sits in the palm of your hand, as I end, this flower, It blossoms.:
This shows the singers true faith, that he never abandoned, it's not into beauty and good doing, its into everything continuing as it is.. he dies in his body, but his spirit decomposes, and becomes a beautiful flower, that dramatically opens into its full blossom in the hand of the listener.
few years back when I listened to this song much more, I felt a lot of meaning to all of the parts.. Here are some insights:
Companions since birth in this stagnant dingy haunt: companions, means he was always a hero of the singer, who was suffering this 'stagnant dingy haunt', perhaps some sort of horror or psychosis
He never really lived: The singer thinks Jesus was a good person, but from all his good doing, he missed all the fun things in life..
Last night I beat him, as he would not leave: The singer hates jesus for being more beautiful than himself, so he beats and rapes him in envy.
He curls up like a fetus and paints his face with sadness: this response of jesus makes him even more interestin, beautiful and good willing character.. finally making even the singer shed a tear of remorse
I bandage his wounds, I kiss the face of jesus christ, but he is dead: The singer takes remorse, but he's too late, jesus has died, and his faith has no more meaning..
Called yourself messiah, expected me to follow: His beauty should have been obvious sing to follow, instead the singer became envious of it, trying to take the beauty away instead of taking it as an ideal for himself
I will bury him not, as an insult to your face: the singer chooses not to forget the death of jesus, instead he thinks to keep it as a sing of victory, for he was able to take away the beauty..
One detail disturbs me, his cold, stark finger points where I have not been..: Worn out of the battle against the beauty of jesus, the singer takes one more look at the body, and sees a sing, to get any true rest from his life, he too must die, at a place he has never visited, in his otherwise familiar backyard.
No more to offer, but this flesh to the soil, and a single tear marks my final prayer. Rosebud sits in the palm of your hand, as I end, this flower, It blossoms.: This shows the singers true faith, that he never abandoned, it's not into beauty and good doing, its into everything continuing as it is.. he dies in his body, but his spirit decomposes, and becomes a beautiful flower, that dramatically opens into its full blossom in the hand of the listener.