Before I read the lyrics, I always heard the words as "Lord is gonna leave me... All by myself".
I thought that referred to Jesus' crucifixion, a musical interpretation of his overwhelming despair in the moment where he says "My God My God, why have you forsaken me?"
I could make out none of the other words of the song except "with the ground" and "in this world", and assumed all the lyrics supported that meaning.
I thought it more generally was supposed to reflect the helplessness, loneliness and fear of death that's a deep, essential aspect of the living condition - the shadow side of the intense drive to act, love, and fight for life. So I felt it was an incredible powerful, basic and raw song about the dark side of being a living creature on Earth.
Then I saw the video and, worse, read the lyrics, and now I'm not sure what to think. Who is Lordy? Is it just another word for Lord? If my interpretation was wrong, what does the song mean? What does it mean that: "good times is the Devil" (why?) "I'm a force of heaven"... (?)
Now I reinterpret that perhaps it is a song about feeling marooned in an alien world (Earth) where nothing makes sense, and there's no one even remotely like you, and the spaceship takes off without you.
Before I read the lyrics, I always heard the words as "Lord is gonna leave me... All by myself".
I thought that referred to Jesus' crucifixion, a musical interpretation of his overwhelming despair in the moment where he says "My God My God, why have you forsaken me?"
I could make out none of the other words of the song except "with the ground" and "in this world", and assumed all the lyrics supported that meaning.
I thought it more generally was supposed to reflect the helplessness, loneliness and fear of death that's a deep, essential aspect of the living condition - the shadow side of the intense drive to act, love, and fight for life. So I felt it was an incredible powerful, basic and raw song about the dark side of being a living creature on Earth.
Then I saw the video and, worse, read the lyrics, and now I'm not sure what to think. Who is Lordy? Is it just another word for Lord? If my interpretation was wrong, what does the song mean? What does it mean that: "good times is the Devil" (why?) "I'm a force of heaven"... (?)
Now I reinterpret that perhaps it is a song about feeling marooned in an alien world (Earth) where nothing makes sense, and there's no one even remotely like you, and the spaceship takes off without you.
But again, what does "Lordy" mean?