What do the lyrics to "Take Me To Church" mean, line by line?
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“My lover’s got humor
His girl is kind of an asshole and has a dark twisted sense of humor
She’s the giggle at a funeral
She’s inappropriate
Knows everybody’s disapproval
And gives no fucks what people think of her
I should’ve worshipped her sooner
It took him awhile to get used to her and realize how great she is
If the Heavens ever did speak
So great, that if the angels and God were to comment on her, they’d say
She is the last true mouthpiece”
She keeps it real and has no filter.
She’s probably considered trashy by his stuck up religious family or peers.
Every Sunday’s getting more bleak
As time progresses and he learns more about his religion and the agenda they push he sees it differently and realizes
A fresh poison each week
It’s not good, but poisonous and hateful
‘We were born sick, ‘ you heard them say it
TheY teach we are destined to fail and have some mysterious entity supposedly controlling everything. There’s no way to change your destiny
My church offers no absolutes
hes realized this through her rebellious spirit and brutal honesty, so he’s become his obsession and his truth. She is the answer to why he is here
She tells me ‘worship in the bedroom’
She doesn’t believe in worshipping something you can’t see or interact with but he can shower love and attention in her bedroom
The only heaven I’ll be sent to
She thinks heaven is bs
Is when I’m alone with you
And our time we live now, is our one chance to find our own heaven. For her, heaven is being with him .
I was born sick, but I love it
She embraces her deviant dirty instincts
Command me to be well
She wants to be dominated
Amen. Amen. Amen
here he’s agreeing very much
Take me to church
Take me to bed
I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I’ll do whatever you want and don’t care if it’s true. I’m yours completely
I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
I will open up and be vulnerable. I’ll tell you things about me that you can use against me later
Offer me that deathless death
So when you break me down and I hate you or just don’t care enough about you and die inside, although my body lives on
Good God, let me give you my life
I’ll do anything for you. You may have my soul if it were a thing I could give
If I’m a pagan of the good times
I’ll hang on to our happiness as long as I can
My lover’s the sunlight
She is the only thing that can light his world or send him into darkness
To keep the Goddess on my side
he’ll work to get her whatever she wants
She demands a sacrifice
He will sacrifice his time, body, health etc to earn enough
To drain the whole sea
To get her material possessions that she wants
Get something shiny
Big ring, jewels, nice car, big house, spoil her
Something meaty for the main course
Some people might have to suffer for her to get all these things
That’s a fine looking high horse
And he can see where people may try to speak poorly of his means to an end
What you got in the stable?
But everyone has skeletons
We’ve a lot of starving faithful
When you buy things from 3rd world countries with low pay and no worker rights, you are just as guilty of greed and selfishness
That looks tasty
Cuz you want it
That looks plenty
Lots of everything. More more more
This is hungry work
When you start being greedy, you’re never satisfied. You’re always hungry….
So he is telling the story of where this is going and where it ultimately ends up. At the end of the day, we are all greedy bastards