Bodies lyrics

wow, callmepsycho that looks really deep. i'm just not sure that robbie would have thought that hard about it. he is quite weird though, i just wonder who other then you figured it out.
ps. i couldn't at all figure out what the naked line was until i looked here, thank goodness for lyricsmode.

That meaning makes a lot of sense, but I think if this is the true meaning behind the song- Robbie is being really confusing and very pompous. I'm a strong Christian and I didn't even understand the song, so how will anyone else? On the surface it sounds like he's being a hypocrite and quite arrogant and it says to me 'Jesus died for me, but not for you', which is not the Christian message. If he's going to sing about Jesus he needs to be a little less cryptic and more loving!

The song is one of double entendre. On the surface, it is talking about humanity’s / Robbie’s personal journey / issues with physical appearance and mortality. But there is a much deeper meaning stepped in the Judeo-Christian religion

The song is sung from the perspective of Lucifer, who according to the Judeo-Christian religion, was God’s most beautiful creation. Lucifer was head angel but fell victim to vanity thinking himself perfection personified. He rebelled (along with 1/3 of the heavenly bodies / angels / ‘the fallen’) against his creator when informed that he was made to serve humanity / bodies.

He recounts the day he fell (what a day), losing his beauty through this rebellion / sin (entrophy) but has found power through it (sin) and now lives like a deity. He’s looking forward to (praying for) the rapture to rid the world of the infectious medieval beliefs of Christians.

He demonstrates his disdain for humanity with the body references, like some sort of putrid edifice that he sees everywhere. Bodhi is the Sanskrit word for enlightenment, thus he begins with a metaphorical reference with the bodies / carcasses in the tree of enlightment / knowldege of good and evil (ie the tree that Adam and Eve are associated with). He then refers to human procreation / expanding population, bodies / the dead are his family, bodies everywhere getting in the way, lots of dead bodies is the way “its gonna be”.

He then sings in plural about how he and the fallen have been stripped of their beauty and must clothe their appearance. “All we’ve ever wanted (since rebellion) is to look good naked ie how they once did, they just want perfection. Still vain glorious, he asks God to save him not from his ‘sin’ but from the consequences, the horror of his own reflection.

The whole “Jesus didn’t die for you” thing is again double entendre. On one hand he’s talking to himself in first person, Jesus didn’t die for you / ‘the fallen’ but allegedly for these humans / bodies. But he’s also talking to humans / bodies in spite saying you are just like us / in the same sad “fallen” state, just wanting perfection and your hope / ‘salvation’ is in vain (“Jesus didn’t die for you”).

Consider the imagery in the final minute of the clip