Saturday, March 5
I've listened to Thrice-IdentityCrisis (song, not album) many times and I definitely wouldn't have noticed anything, had it not been for a lyrics site that had a comment about the religious overtones of some Thrice songs. Lo and behold, I now have a completely different view of the song. I had taken the line 'I put all my trust in you' to be in the past tense (notice that 'put' is the past, present, and future tense simultaneously) and meaning that the singer had put all his trust in a girl and been betrayed. Now I see the line to be directed towards god in the present tense and without any inference of betrayal. Now the lyrics aren't very revealing otherwise, and save for the word 'altar' there's really no hint of the intended meaning. In fact, I've seen a band cover the song and I'd be willing to guess they had the same assumption as me. This has happened to me with other songs too, but none come to mind and they probably weren't quite so completely different than this.
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