Time is something we manufactured.we however are light, something natural. You wake with stitches over both your eyes and deny me my body and all earthly delights: you're blind to reality (science) and try to repress my natural desires (attraction to/sex with women)

She is supposedly gay so this would make the most sense. General CommentIt seems like she is talking about the repressive nature of religion (she was raised Catholic mostly) in regards to sexuality but more specifically the kind that is not hetero. He's deeply religious but not in the same way this song seems to describe. Either way, she thinks his devotion is lunacy and he's blind to her desires, so maybe they both think each other is crazy. Then there's the religious aspect that they disagree how to spend this brief life of theirs, she wants to just enjoy it and go out like a shooting star, he takes it as an urging to live devoted to his religion and convert people (Doesn't have to be Christianity necessarily). It sounds like she's only happy when she's sleeping with him, if she is at all. Personally I see a double meaning: the relationship aspect-the long period of time (the relationship) and the short moments (sex). It's a metaphor for the conflict between her and the person to whom she is singing. The song is full of these contrasting ideas of extremely long periods of time and brief, flashing moments. I love how she follows that with a suprised gasp. General CommentThe line 'All your praying moments amount to just one breath' is a direct biblical reference to the brevity of the life of man in the grand scheme.

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