Dime Store Mystery lyrics

The song, like the death of Christ to which it refers, doesn't have just one meaning. Rather than providing an answer, the song invites us to ask questions and not to accept just one meaning as the final answer. His reference to the sould of Christ being "fully human [and] fully divine" is a reference to the official Catholic dotrine about Jesus, known as Christology, which was the cause of one of the bloodiest religious wars in history in the 5th century; it is a "right answer" established by the death of thousands. Reed is pointing out what he sees as a paradox: if the "right answer" is really right, and there was division in Christ's soul, then he must have been uncertain of the meaning of his own death, in which case there is no "right answer." If, as Reed suggests, Christ questioned the meaning of his own death, surely it is no impiety for us to question it as well?
As Reed analogizes the death of Christ to the recent death of an acquaintance, he lets the sense of doubt and uncertaintly linger. Reed speculates on the last thoughts of the deceased: "I wish I hadn't thrown away my time/ On so much Human/ And so much less Divine." Are these words the misguided, or perhaps ironic, even sarcastic words of someone who should have lived life to the fullest while he/she still drew breath, instead of wasting real life worrying about a fictional afterlife? Or are they the words of someone who, forced to face their impending mortality for the first time, and fearing a coming Judgement Day, realizes for the first time that life should be lived for a greater purpose instead of frittered away on petty human concerns that mean nothing in this final hour? Reed leaves us to ponder it. The "end of a dime store mystery" leaves us with a mystery that is ended but not solved.