(some people really like this song. Then become rather hurt when they learn what they thought to be a celebration of a wrestle with faith to in fact be a murderous meditation by a victim of rape (the protagonist, that is). This song is very beautiful to me because of the people I know who have been hurt (so badly by loved ones) and my own personal history with sexual abuse (by a stranger, thank God). Since the song brings the subject up, when people get over their shock at the difference between the beauty of the song as sung by me and the suggestions I make to its meaning, I try to gently get across the fact that I none the less mean it when I say I'd like child molesters and rapists to die. I guess we all have our blind spots. This song celebrates the innocence of some people and it might be said the unfathomable distance between the Grace of God and my perspective on child molesters and rapists. The word "die" means die. This song has a deep voiced quietly haunted lullaby tone.
What is the thing they talk to?
Talk to your Friend?
If I'd been late, they'd ok
To buy in this store again?
(chorus)
What to say, "Faith?"
Although found late.
By and by
A cold way
I'd say they die.
Little Father victims
Thy dues
Now just vapor in the light
Maybe you'll be tongue in cheek
Learnin' somehow not to die
(chorus)
They ask you if you want to
Want to be Friends?
He is the great, and Ok?
To lie there and just pretend?
What to say, "Faith?"
Although found late.
By and by
A cold way
I'd say they die.
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