>
>
> agreed...i always thought it was bullshit marketing strategy that "abegail
> anne" was in heavy rotation on the local christian station where i lived at
> the time. that is to say, perhaps the label folks saw jeremy's
> "experience" as another angle to help sell his record, and billed it as
> such.
>
> .shawn
True, there's nothing religious about it, but it has a heavy Christian
undertone. Like in Lizard, it
says "the writing on the wall said he is only the way, you said it was bad
timing at least we had
timing at all." I'm not exactly sure what the writing on the wall means (could
be the bible), but
the "he" that Jeremy refers to is none other than Jesus. The bad timing prolly
means that Jeremy's conversion came at a time that someone considered to be
wrong. "under his shadow
tremors a dreary heart." This could mean that he is under the shadow of God. He
actually talked about it in either an interview or an online discussion, I
think it was one of the two. There's also a bunch of references to his
conversion in Carnival, when he says "the lines made
me perfect", as in the lines on Christ's back after He was whipped. "The light
gave me dark" means that once he became a Christian, he realized all of the
darkness everywhere else. "Swallowed ideas to skin" means acting out Christ's
teachings in real life. As far as the other songs go, I'm not too sure what
they mean, other than being vivid poetic images.
Steve
