August 4th - Hebrews 11:40

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

This is an oblique song, and seemingly deliberately so. John likes to unpack the personal behind walls of allegory and imagery, and so allegory and imagery are what we're left with.

This gives us a second day of songs about bodies. And in particular about the yawning chasm between the actual and the perfect. This makes this a song of self inflicted injuries, of challenges that nobody asked the singer to fight, and of things that are not real that he is trying to reify into existence. Making his own friends, inventing his family, trying to put into the sullen dirt of the world something that only exists in his ideals if there.

John describes this song as one people get or don't. I'm not one of the people who gets it in the full sense, but I've been close enough to see what he's talking about.